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...traveled, internationally-connected and ultimately more valuable candidate, the CIA has to devote greater time and resources to scrutinizing the past for possible complications. Moreover, with the Aldrich Ames betrayal to the KGB and allegations of espionage by nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the CIA may be pressured to conduct even more comprehensive checks on potential employees...
...George Tenet, this is the Agency's "biggest recruiting drive since the end of the Cold War." Thus, it would serve the CIA well to review its practice of the polygraph (a 30-year CIA veteran expressed to me his dismay over its use) and find ways to efficiently conduct the security clearance process (a new recruit even had to postpone his wedding due to uncertain timeline...
...just that he survived being hung by ropes from two broken arms and beaten senseless; it's that when his captors learned of his famous father and offered to let him go home, he refused unless they let the rest of the prisoners go as well. Such conduct enthralls a generation that aches for heroes and doubts the moral detour it took during the years John McCain was becoming the icon of Duty, Honor and Country. So compelling is the Story that it has helped bring him here, to a dead heat in New Hampshire with the Texas Governor...
...said that gays should be allowed to openly serve, but rather said that the military should just enforce the policy as it had been intended upon its inception in 1994. That policy says that commanders cannot ask about a soldier's sexual orientation without specific evidence of homosexual conduct; soldiers for their part are allowed to serve as long as they keep their sex lives private. But the policy's many critics charge that this is not a realistic assessment of what happens in the barracks and that the policy actually creates a poisonous atmosphere of suspicion and deceit within...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...