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Democratic Senator David Boren, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, last week called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the allegations. In a defensive counterstrike, Attorney General William P. Barr announced that he had asked retired federal Judge Frederick B. Lacey of New Jersey to investigate the Justice Department's handling of the case against an Italian bank, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose Atlanta branch provided $4 billion in illegal loans and loan guarantees to Iraq. In the meantime the CIA continues to turn over new files, including one report that U.S. and Italian officials had accepted...
Some of these ideas are being picked up on Capitol Hill. Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma last March proposed a bill to create a modern-day version of the WPA. In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, bipartisan momentum seems to be building behind Housing Secretary Jack Kemp's "empowerment" approach. By offering tax breaks to entrepreneurs investing in 50 inner-city "enterprise zones," Kemp hopes to generate new jobs and wean welfare recipients off the dole. That trickle-down solution seems problematic: it will take more than fiscal lures to bring major investment into rubble-strewn areas...
SOME HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK. SENATORS CLAIBORNE PELL and DAVID BOREN, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, have been traveling through Southeast Asia during the Easter-Passover recess on a military C-20B (cost: $2,614 an hour), stopping in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea). Even though commercial flights were available, sources say, one of the reasons for going military was that wives travel free. Boren argues that the spouses were invited by some of the governments to participate in events...
...Boren has had favorable things to say about Gates since the deputy national security adviser was nominated in May. He even took the highly unusual step of being a witness before his own panel to testify about Gates's support for Congress's watchdog role over the spy agency...
...Boren said he based his decision in part on the need for a veteran intelligence professional who can quickly make the changes needed to put the spy agency on a post-Cold War footing...