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...that it would streamline intelligence gathering and sharing and make it easier for the President to make smart decisions. That may yet come to pass. But many current and former national security officials warn that if the evolution is not handled smoothly, the changes could diminish and possibly destroy both the nation's proudest intelligence shop, the CIA, and its newest, the DNI. Indeed, one knowledgeable expert says DNI officials are already concerned that Fingar, Negroponte's top analysis deputy, risks having his influence over terrorism intelligence diminished because the DNI law says the NCTC chief, former Navy Admiral Scott...
...then his resignation last Sunday should sound an alarm. Trained as a banker rather than a diplomat, former World Bank chief Wolfensohn didn't mince words about his reasons for stepping down. He said the current U.S.-Israeli financial blockade of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority looks set to destroy the administrative institutions on which a two-state solution would be based, and negate 12 years and billions of dollars of investment by the international community in establishing the infrastructure of Palestinian self-rule. Moreover, he suggested, it is sure to plunge Palestinian society deeper into the vortex of poverty...
...current administration] calls it Healthy Forest when they want to destroy the forests, they call it the Clear Skies Act when they want to destroy the air,” Kennedy said. “And then they put polluters in charge of all these initiatives...
...punk-skater magazine Thrasher, who in the late '70s sparked a thrill-seeking urban subculture of skateboarders who jumped curbs and railings instead of just ramps in specialty parks; of a heart attack, while riding his bike; in Woodside, Calif. The motto of the still vibrant movement: Skate and Destroy...
...left so they could look directly at Lay as he testified about being "on the battlefront" in the final months of Enron before it collapsed under a pile of debt in 2001. Lay blamed Enron's collapse largely on his former CFO Andy Fastow and described a witchhunt to destroy the company led by Wall Street Journal reporters and short sellers...