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Walsh, who declined to comment yesterday, tried to defraud a branch of the Dime Savings Bank of New York...
...credit card was handed out without rules, then the responsibility falls on the executive branch," Dowds said, referring to Maloney and Healy...
...first orders of business, Aristide says, will be to shift the balance of power away from the executive branch and place more responsibility in the hands of local government, like labor unions, grass-roots organizations, community groups. But to do that, he must redefine the military's role, separating the army from the police and the local section chiefs who established a draconian choke hold on rural Haiti...
...revealed that two senior officials had decided to leave the agency rather than accept demotions ordered by Director R. James Woolsey. The two men -- John MacGaffin, the No. 2 man in the agency's clandestine branch, and Frank Anderson, the head of Near East operations -- ran afoul of Woolsey for giving an award to one of the CIA officials whom Woolsey had criticized just last month for the agency's failure to detect mole Aldrich Ames. Congressional overseers expressed concern that the incident might suggest that Woolsey faces problems of insubordination...
Members of Congress who oversee the CIA viewed the episode as a characteristic case of arrogance within the agency's Directorate of Operations, the branch in charge of covert missions. And, said a White House official, "What we can't understand is why Woolsey keeps loyally defending an operations directorate that keeps thumbing its nose at him. He needs to clean house." Critics will gain ammunition from the fresh details contained in classified documents. Among them...