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...life insurance policies worth just over j830,000. German federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said the money would have funded attacks in Iraq. Prosecutors also allege that one of the men tried to buy 48 g of enriched uranium in Luxembourg - not enough for a bomb but, as E.U. terror czar Gijs de Vries said, "a risk we must take seriously." Apprehending terror suspects is one thing; convicting them is another. That difficulty was highlighted last week in Milan when five Muslim men who had recruited fighters for Iraq were acquitted of terrorism charges. Judge Clementina Forleo noted that...
With state laws proliferating, will federal legislation become more likely? The Bush Administration has thus far been reluctant to back any comprehensive approach. "The problem is not as severe in some states as it is in others," says federal drug czar John Walters. "It is probably not true that one size fits all." And in the past two Congresses, even moderate federal bills sponsored by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein--limiting purchases to 190 pills a month--died in committee because of industry opposition. Nonetheless, Feinstein and co-sponsor Jim Talent, a Missouri Republican, say the most efficient...
...second attempt, now comatose, was the National Intelligence Reform Act--the brisk congressional response to last summer's findings of the 9/11 commission. The bill would have created a National Intelligence director to ride herd over the CIA, NSA, parts of the FBI and assorted other intel agencies. The czar would have had budgetary authority and also the power to "design" and "implement" the unified computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving--in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence...
...recommendations be enacted immediately--without any input from, or negotiation with, the entrenched panjandrums of the intelligence community. "You can't do intelligence reform without a clear vision and direct marching orders from the President," 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey told me last week. "If you create an Intelligence czar, but the President doesn't want to back him fully and give him real authority to build the network, then you might as well deep-six the bill...
Ravi P. Ramchandani '07 [co-photo czar...