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...were able to extract everyone with whom the agency had a close association, meaning about two dozen security guards and their families, plus several paid informants. Even so, the CIA is viewed as having abandoned several hundred congress members. As for their mission, it no longer exists. "Our entire covert action program has gone to hell," says a U.S. official...
...political leadership of this country should be more visionary than to fall victim to narrow sectarian interests. It is not the absence of assimilatory policies that will cause the disintegration of this country, but their presence. Such policies, overt or covert, will carry with them the implied message of "war" against non-Anglo ethnicities. This may precipitate the formation of an anti-Anglo coalition, thus rending a great schism in our society. Besides its immediate domestic consequences, this would tarnish the American image overseas, sending the United States to the bottom rank of world democracies and weakening the U.S. leadership...
...from the Gulf War Waller also reports that the CIA's decade-old Counter-Intelligence Center in Langley has been working almost nonstop since the crash. Agents within the 200-plus force are relying on what they call "all-source intelligence," in which they mobilize a vast array of covert spies, police investigators, foreign intelligence agents, sophisticated computers and satellites. The computer programs correlate thousands of overseas passport numbers, travel itineraries of foreign nationals, secret cables from spies on the ground, reports from friendly foreign intelligence services and phone intercepts worldwide. CIA sources tell Waller that this method has worked...
Questions remain, however, about the merit of the entire project, of going to Charlie Rose every morning instead of, say, the yogurt place. My career plans are still completely up in the air. I have no acknowledged or covert desire to succeed Charlie, and I don't see this summer as a way to get my foot in the door for a career in television. "It's the experience," I am told by some, mostly parents' friends and Ivy Leaguers, and there is something to that. I feel as if I'm learning something, however intangible...
Several former colleagues believe that Livingstone must have noticed the list was somehow faulty--he had been in politics for a decade, after all--but that he continued to let the files come in because he enjoyed the covert thrill of it all. "I think he made a stupid mistake that mushroomed far beyond what he could have imagined," says a friend. Livingstone's lawyers deny that he was running any kind of freelance operation. He was so busy trying to process background checks on Clinton staff members, they say, that he never had time to pay attention...