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...killed, but because of intense recruitment and training of hundreds of Zetitas (Little Zetas), the gang has cells scattered around Mexico. They engage in ransom kidnappings and the extortion of businesses, from convenience stores to car dealerships. "The Zetas now victimize the general population," says Art Fontes, an FBI agent in Laredo. "Honest businesspeople are coming here from Nuevo Laredo out of fear...
Another power struggle may be shaping up between the DNI and the FBI. Although FBI director Robert Mueller told Negroponte in a March 30 meeting arranged by the National Security Council that he is "open" to new ideas, a U.S. intelligence source tells TIME that Mueller has signaled his opposition to recent recommendations by a White House intelligence commission to bring more FBI intel functions under the DNI's purview. At least Negroponte, who is leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to Iraq for the DNI nomination, is used to being under fire. --By Timothy J. Burger and Brian Bennett
...FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is not Michael Corleone, Anakin Skywalker, or even Shrek. The original Ms. Congeniality left no audience member rapt in anticipation of her continued life saga. While Ms. Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous is among the most unnecessary sequels in film history (perhaps since Jeepers Creepers 2), it actually succeeds as a cute, fun and campy second chapter following the first’s formula...
Everything about Ms. Congeniality 2 is more over-the-top than the first. The first film found its humor in mocking the tackiness of beauty pageantry; the second takes the FBI team to Vegas, the capital of camp and glitz. Homosexual stereotypes and humor abound in both films; ironically, the now girly Hart is actually “gayer” in the second, as she performs in a drag show and pokes (the actual) Dolly Parton’s (fake) breasts...
...PROBLEM BE FIXED? The commission's 74 recommendations are designed to transform intelligence by undoing bureaucracies and smashing competing CIA, FBI and Pentagon fiefs. The report stresses the need to develop more human agents instead of relying so much on technology. --By Adam Zagorin...