Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot fault the national press too much for its coverage of the story. Murder sells magazines, as does negative coverage of Harvard; one need only look at the coverage of the Gina Grant fiasco to observe that. One cannot even wholly fault the public for the ease with which it played into Tadesse's scheme to go out as Cambridge's most celebrated victim--it is too much a part of our culture...
...post-Cold-War "dangerous world," and we will counter them with decisive resolution. Given the current state of United States foreign affairs, Thurmond's assertion has more than a grain of truth. In the last year alone, we have found ourselves mired in diplo-disasters including the Bosnian fiasco; the collapse of relations with China; the hampering of our security policy in the "new" Europe by an increasingly unpredictable and frequently hostile Russia; the shattering of would confidence in our capability to handle regional security "hotspots" from Rwanda and Somalia to Iraq and Chechnya...
...playing a high-stakes game. "It's a very tough issue for Republicans because it requires education," says G.O.P. pollster Frank Luntz. "Facts are on the side of the Republicans. Emotion is on the side of Democrats. Can facts beat emotion?'' If not, he predicts, "This could be a fiasco...
Afghan hand Bearden, who later ran the CIA's Soviet branch and was censured for his role in the Aldrich Ames fiasco, insists that the agency must be willing to deal with shady characters and accept that they occasionally go bad. "You have to make it clear-cut that you have moral standards, and you yourself have to be unswerving in them," he says, citing his own refusal to allow government contacts in Sudan to engage in torture, even when it might have helped foil plots on his own life. But, he says, it is harder for CIA officers...
Despite all those changes, some agents wonder if life within ATF has really changed. Immediately after the Waco raid, many agents were outraged when the raid leaders, Phillip Chojnacki and Chuck Sarabyn, tried to blame the fiasco on a young undercover agent. The Treasury report, which condemned both leaders for serious errors and for lying to postraid investigators, stated, "Their consistent attempts to place blame on a junior agent were one of the most disturbing aspects of the conduct of senior ATF officials...