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Carns, whose confirmation by Congress is likely, will have a lot of people looking over his shoulder as he directs his new spies. The White House has appointed an independent commission, headed by former Defense Secretary Les Aspin, to produce a report by March 1996 on future directions for the entire U.S. intelligence community. The House Intelligence Committee is preparing a similar report, while Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Arlen Specter announced he is drafting legislation to reorganize and cut overlap in intelligence collection. Carns promised last week that the operation ``will be leaner, but at the same time we will...
...future leaders who ended up disgraced that cause concern; it is the leaders who were successes. TIME was prescient to identify Les Aspin in 1974 as someone who might go far. Back then he was simply a two-term Congressman with an interest in military affairs, yet he rose all the way to Secretary of Defense. How well did that turn out? Clinton, Rather, Biden, Senator Sam Nunn, columnist George Will, California Governor and possible Republican presidential nominee Pete Wilson, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Citibank CEO John Reed -- all were on the lists of potential leaders, and all could be said...
...both the White House and Congress may soon appoint panels to look deep into the workings of the intelligence community. "This could lead to dramatic changes," says a member of the President's foreign intelligence advisory board, a group of White House appointees chaired by former Defense Secretary Les Aspin. President Clinton is expected to assign the 12-member panel in early August to evaluate the spy process from top to bottom. Yet that plan doesn't please John Warner of Virginia, the senior G.O.P. member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who wants an outside group for the task...
...planned activities in the hospitality suites." But three of Kelso's aides testified under oath that he was nowhere near the third-floor scene of the crime, much less a witness to the alleged assaults. In part because of the conflicting testimony, former Secretary of Defense Les Aspin last year turned down Navy Secretary John Dalton's recommendation that Kelso be removed...
Allison, a foreign policy expert specializing in the former Soviet Union at the Kennedy school, was brought to the Pentagon last year by then-Secretary of Defense Les Aspin...