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...more FBI agents are working overseas than ever before. The Patriot Act passed in October gives the CIA greater access to law-enforcement information and allows the nsa to obtain warrants more easily for domestic wiretaps. In Afghanistan, the CIA has unleashed its 150-man covert paramilitary force to conduct sabotage, collect intelligence and train Northern Alliance guerrillas...
Still, not all hunts on preserves provoke an outcry. Many ranch owners keep exotic animals out of their collections or conduct hunts on grounds that give prey a sporting chance. The Selah Ranch in Austin, Texas, is a 5,500-acre spread covered by Spanish dagger and prickly pear, often with no sign of the elusive animals that live there. "There are a lot of exotic animals on this place that die of old age," says Mike Gardner, owner of San Miguel Hunting Ranches, which runs Selah...
...fact, Bush's conduct of the Afghan war has won high marks as measured and effective all over Europe. European leaders point to that when critics fume that Bush is about to go off half-cocked in Iraq to complete the job his father flubbed in the Gulf War. But lately, that reassuring example has been obscured by a blizzard of Bush words and deeds that strike many Europeans as tone-deaf or worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners...
...Apparently the media are in the business of shaping or reshaping opinion on the issue of torture. One is reminded of those poems and paintings which juxtapose beautiful nature with atrocities. Does Dershowitz stroll about Harvard without encountering disagreement? Does he conduct his lectures as a tenured professor at Harvard without hearing disagreement? Does he discuss his views on torture over dinner with his colleagues and do they agree with him or understand his position? Do his students show him their contempt for torture...
...listen to Daschle’s remarks, one would think that Bush was recklessly bombing random countries, placing a multitude of ground troops in harm’s way without proper intelligence and ignoring the continued threat of al Qaeda. In reality, the Bush team’s conduct of this war remains patient and incredibly well-focused...