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...timing caught the White House by surprise, but the resignation was not unwelcome. Woolsey had barely been on speaking terms the past two years with outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dennis DeConcini. Earlier this fall, sources told TIME, eight Republican and Democratic Senators on the committee secretly debated going to the White House to ask that Woolsey be fired. "He wasn't pushed," insisted a Clinton aide. But that was only because Clinton had lately been occupied replacing the departing Secretaries of the Treasury and Agriculture, the Democratic Party chairman and several top White House officials. White House aides...
...been voting for deep cuts in the defense budget, had asked only that spending for intelligence operations at the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies remain at the previous year's level of about $28 billion. "Woolsey felt like he knew best, and nobody could tell him otherwise," says DeConcini...
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...director of the CIA, R. James Woolsey must deal with a daunting array of sworn enemies: Russian spies, Libyan operatives, North Korean agents, Dennis DeConcini . . . Wait, Dennis DeConcini, the Democratic Senator from Arizona? Listen to what he says and judge for yourself. "We have had a very obstinate director of the CIA who has hurt the agency," says DeConcini, who is the chairman of the Senate's Intelligence Committee. "He is not doing the Administration any good whatsoever and to me is a disaster...
...members of Congress feel that Woolsey is reluctant to embrace a changed world. DeConcini is angry at Woolsey for refusing, with White House backing, to accept the Senator's legislation giving the FBI earlier access to possible security leaks. The measure comes in response to the case of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, in which the agency for two years neglected to inform the FBI of its suspicions after Ames gave deceptive answers in a 1991 polygraph exam. Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, was sentenced last April to life in prison for pocketing up to $2 million from Moscow...