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...With reporting by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...complain that the agency failed to piece together information that might have led the FBI to the Sept. 11 plotters. "The failure of the intelligence agencies to share information with each other was one of our government's most egregious lapses leading up to Sept. 11," charges Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman. The CIA and the FBI have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods. The two organizations also insist the bureaucratic war between them is over. "The FBI and CIA are working together," says...
...Joseph Sullivan read with some apprehension the language on clerical child abuse that his brother bishops passed by a 239-to-13 vote last Friday in Dallas. It looks as if "we've just hung the priests out to dry," said the Brooklyn auxiliary bishop. Despite some complaints from victims, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops document is laudably tough on priests who abuse: any molester, past or future, will be forbidden to wear a collar, celebrate a public Mass or publicly call himself a priest. But the superiors who enabled the behavior got off easy. The document's defenders...
...plan may also face trouble in Rome. Dallas Bishop Joseph Galante, one of the drafters of the document, predicts that "if they offer any changes, it will just be tweaking." But a canon-law expert close to the Vatican says some there perceive a "guillotine" attitude in the U.S. that sacrifices priests' rights to public opinion. It may not bode well that one of the most interested Vatican Cardinals is Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a papal contender who has hinted that the crisis is driven mostly by the American press...
...Duterte's zero tolerance?for both crime and the judicial system?that resonates. "They can't rely on the justice system, so they rely on Duterte," says former Misamis Oriental Governor Homobono Adaza. Looking to exploit Duterte's appeal, former Presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada both asked him to take national posts. And Duterte's way is spreading. Presidential adviser Jesus Dureza, who has known him since high school, says voters in other cities also crave Duterte-type security. Copycat vigilante killings have cropped up in Digos City to the south and Cagayan de Oro to the north. Locally...