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...promptly attacked. But Pentagon officials admit that they will need help finding Iraq's stores of deadly agents before they are put to use. "When they're hiding it, you need someone to come forward and tell you where it is," says General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.S. strategists are hoping that if defeat appears inevitable, Saddam's scientists will start talking and his generals will disobey his orders to launch unconventional weapons. But that's just a hope. A senior Arab diplomat predicts that if Saddam intends to use chemical or biological weapons...
...were to go badly, his position would become untenable. As to Europe, though Blair (and Bush) have allies there, among them the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, the British leader has been blindsided by the revival of the Franco-German alliance, manifested last week by the joint declaration of French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of their opposition to military action. If Britain is yoked to the U.S. in an unpopular, messy war, it is France and Germany--not Britain--that will shape the future...
Tenet's inability to exert his authority over all U.S. spy efforts was a key factor in missing the 9/11 plot, congressional overseers concluded last December. "Our joint inquiry found that one of the major gaps in our intelligence, which contributed to 9/11, was the failure to have effective coordination among the various components of the intelligence community," says Graham. While Tenet's supporters agree that lack of coordination has been a problem, they insist it has been alleviated since passage of the U.S.A. Patriot Act. "There has been extraordinary cooperation between the intelligence community and law enforcement since 9/11...
...government lapses may remain just as controversial. Two commissioners of the bipartisan panel, which holds its first meeting this week, told TIME they will push for a wide-ranging, aggressive probe that will include testimony from top Bush Administration officials who didn't testify last year in a joint inquiry by the House and Senate intelligence committees...
Kamm will assume a tenured joint professorship at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences next fall. She will be returning to Harvard