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...TREATING THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO AS FACT. One official said the process often went this way: the agency would send to the Pentagon three ways to interpret one piece of information, such as a new satellite photo or telephone intercept, and the Pentagon would always opt for the most dire explanation. This inclination accounts in part for the controversial conclusion by the Defense Department that Iraq's aluminum tubes were for the production of uranium for nuclear weapons. Seasoned experts at the Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California disagreed, but their view--the most expert government interpretation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons Of Mass Disappearance | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...cesium 137 "pigs," metal sphere-like wrecking balls, are lying in the open air in an area visited by looters "until the last few days or so," a senior U.S. official told TIME. Troops protecting the approach to one of the most sensitive storage areas say that they still intercept a looter a day. Those they catch are held in a sun-baked compound for two days, and then made to do 5 more of manual labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxic, Deadly and All Over The Village | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

...when an entry pass was hurled diagonally across the goal mouth to junior midfielder Jen Brooks a few feet to her right, Calidonia lunged forward, taking herself out of position in an attempt to intercept it and halt the Crimson attack...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Beats Lions To Get First Ivy Win | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

Leung's other lover was an FBI agent in San Francisco, whom bureau sources identified as William Cleveland Jr. In 1991, three years into this affair, Cleveland was listening to an electronic intercept of a phone call to a Chinese intelligence officer and recognized Leung's voice. Realizing the FBI had not authorized her to make such contacts, Cleveland alerted Smith, her chief handler, who said he would speak with Leung. Other counterintelligence officials also may have missed signals that Leung was a double agent and continued to use her as an informant. The FBI is now poring over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To China with Love | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...Leung's other lover was an FBI agent in San Francisco, whom bureau sources identified as William Cleveland Jr. In 1991, three years into this affair, Cleveland was listening to an electronic intercept of a phone call to a Chinese intelligence officer and recognized Leung's voice. Realizing the FBI had not authorized her to make such contacts, Cleveland alerted Smith, her chief handler, who said he would speak with Leung. Other counterintelligence officials also may have missed signals that Leung was a double agent and continued to use her as an informant. The FBI is now poring over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To China with Love | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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