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...advice to Mr. Panetta: resist it. This country cannot afford to turn the CIA into a Boy Scout troop. And there is a quick and easy fix to CIA staffing. Iraq and Afghanistan are grossly overstaffed with good, capable officers. These people are more than adequate to run the CIA's posts around the world. Having so many people in Iraq and Afghanistan was a Bush White House decision. Cut back in those two countries by two-thirds and the CIA will do just fine...
...Lords, with its 743 members, including 92 who are there only by dint of their aristocratic lineage, remains a byword for tradition and gentility. Those qualities were at least partially reflected in a recent headline from The Sunday Times: "Whispered over tea and cake: price for a peer to fix the law." According to the article, the polite rituals of afternoon tea accompanied a less rarified interchange. The newspaper claimed that some peers may be willing to amend laws on behalf of business clients for fees of up to ?120,000 ($170,000) a year...
Nonetheless, the idea of new loan guarantees as the solution to fix the banking crisis appears to be gaining momentum in Washington and abroad. Earlier in the week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner seemed to have struck a deal between the FDIC and the Federal Reserve to roll out a new phase of the bank bailout plan that would include both guarantees and direct asset purchases. The latter plan is favored by the FDIC and is often called the "bad bank" approach, because the government would set up an institution to buy up all the loans or bonds that are backed...
...workhorse of the helicopter EMS industry is the Bell 206 JetRanger and its successors. If you've seen a TV news helicopter, you've probably seen a Bell 206. It's popular because it is a lightweight craft that's relatively inexpensive to fix and fuel. But many versions of the 206 don't have the space or the engine power to carry the safety equipment needed to fly at night or in bad weather. Flying an underpowered helicopter blind in foul weather is a common cause of fatal crashes, safety experts say. "There's nothing wrong with the Bell...
...Until now, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan has been about propping up the Karzai government and security forces and beating back the Taliban. Plainly, that strategy has been failing, and Washington and Karzai appear to have different ideas about how to fix it. The Afghan President may seek to appear as if he's emulating his Iraqi counterparts by pushing back against those who brought him to power, but it's a far trickier game for Karzai, who lacks the alternatives available to an Iraqi government that remains close to Iran. Right now, Karzai's physical survival depends largely...