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...public saw only the poker face. " 'Never let them see you sweat' - you can put that above Gates' door," says Richard Armitage, an old friend and colleague. Four years later, while serving as Deputy National Security Adviser under President George H.W. Bush, Gates was nominated again to be DCI. What followed was one of the longest and most bitter confirmation hearings in Senate records. CIA co-workers from the Soviet desk excoriated his character, his motives, his honesty. They called him a toady who'd fire dissenters and slant intelligence just to please his then boss, Casey. The hearings, which...
Some card companies are tackling the punishing economy with humor. DCI Studios has a Christmas card that doubles as a "new guide to the stock market." Some useful terms: "Broker: What we are this year compared to last year. Merrill Lynch: What we want to do to Merrill. Liquid assets: beer, scotch, vodka, whatever helps...
...Porter Goss getting ready to throw the book at his critics? The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency - and the last man to head the U.S. intelligence community in the storied old post of Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) - tells TIME he's giving serious consideration to writing a book about his experience...
...major issues. They range from Bush's handling of Iraq and the extent of Vice President Cheney's influence over national security policy to Goss's view on the effectiveness of John Negroponte as the nation's first director of national intelligence. Goss was supplanted as the last DCI when Negroponte took over the newly created position of DNI in April 2005. About a year later, Negroponte ousted Goss, with Bush's approval, amid tensions that grew in part out of disagreements over some of the new DNI's plans for stripping some anti-terrorism and other functions from...
...Hunt, a longtime family friend. He remembered Cody's "big-sky libertarian feeling" and theatrically Western spirit (the town was named for showman Buffalo Bill; wannabe gunslingers still walk around in period dress to impress the tourists). In 2001, Francis, who had become a Washington p.r. man for DCI Group, a corporate lobbying firm, wanted to start an organization that would institutionalize the ties between well-connected gay Republicans like himself and the straight party leadership. It would be a "grass-tops" group that would complement a grass-roots organization called the Log Cabin Republicans...