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...moment, increased security is a short-term response to terrorism, and I think it’s to the detriment of all of our citizens,” he said. “I’m not even sure it’s the best response—an airplane wasn’t going to be stopped by a Jersey barrier in front...
...choice was laid out in two reports that are on Rumsfeld?s desk right now. One, by civilian analysts in the Pentagon?s Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation, concluded that the armed forces could be reduced by well over 10 percent without strategic detriment - with the savings getting ploughed back into the sort of high-tech weapons systems and generation-skipping investments that Bush talked about. The other, from aides to the generals that make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was simpler: Keep the military at its current size of 1.4 million people on active-duty...
...result, Tribe said he believes that the conservative viewpoint is now over-represented in the judiciary—to the detriment of liberal concerns which have been squeezed out by a judiciary that favors a more conservative, literalistic interpretation of law and the constitution...
...team, John O'Neill, who matches her reputation for combativeness, back into Yemen. She continues to bar his entry. "O'Neill has been thrown out of better places than that," an FBI agent says. "They hate each other," says a U.S. official. "And that's obviously worked to the detriment of the case...
...team, John O'Neill, who matches her reputation for combativeness, back into Yemen. She continues to bar his entry. "O'Neill has been thrown out of better places than that," an FBI agent says. "They hate each other," says a U.S. official. "And that's obviously worked to the detriment of the case...