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...tainted information supplied by convicted double agent Aldrich Ames. The CIA took "an enormous risk that may have jeopardized the U.S. national security interests," the committee's report concludes, by failing to alert government officials and policymakers that some agency information was actually being provided by the KGB. Senators Arlen Specter and Bob Kerrey, who led the Senate inquiry, also faulted CIA Director John Deutch for understating impact of tainted information and have requested a comprehensive review of all CIA sources for the past 10 years. But TIME's Doug Waller says a major CIA shakedown this...
...ARLEN SPECTER Latest G.O.P. dropout can't hang on past Richard Lugar--and that's got to hurt
...money, and with little visible support among prospective G.O.P. primary voters, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter suspended his campaign for the presidency. Specter, who had hoped to present himself as the moderate alternative to the party's conservative field of candidates, becomes the second G.O.P. presidential dropout, after California Governor Pete Wilson...
...lightning were to strike." --Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, describing the circumstances under which he would reopen his stalled campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Specter, a moderate, failed to rise above two percent in public opinion polls...
Aides to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter say that he will announce Wednesday that he is dropping his bid for the presidency. "In addition to not being able to raise money, there was no indication that his message was catching on wih Republican voters," says TIME's John Dickerson. "His impact on the campaign has been negligible. To the extent that he forced people to talk about abortion, he gave voice to those Republicans who didn't want to see the government messing around the bedroom. But even if he had unlimited resources, Specter would not have been a contender...