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Since Sept. 11, no criticism of the CIA has been more damning than the fact that the agency's legions of highly trained spooks were less successful at infiltrating al-Qaeda than was a Marin County, Calif., 19-year-old named John Walker Lindh. "They didn't see it; they didn't analyze it; they didn't locate it or disrupt it," says a U.S. official."It's just that simple." In Senate hearings last month, CIA Director George Tenet, a Clinton Administration holdover who managed to hold on to his job after 9/11 because he is close to Bush...
ARRAIGNED. JOHN WALKER LINDH, 21, American Taliban accused of aiding al-Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans; in federal court in Alexandria, Va. Lindh pleaded, "Not guilty, sir," as the family of CIA officer Johnny (Mike) Spann--killed at the prison where Lindh was captured--watched. Lindh faces life imprisonment if convicted...
PENETRATING AL-QAEDA: Tenet's toughest moment came when Senator John Roberts said his constituents at a Dodge City, Kans., coffee shop wanted to know why John Walker Lindh could get into al-Qaeda but the CIA couldn't. Tenet, visibly upset, replied, "You better tell everybody at the cafe it's not true." Did he mean his agents had infiltrated al-Qaeda? A U.S. official told TIME that Tenet meant just that; the CIA does have a spy inside al-Qaeda--the first time the agency has ever acknowledged this. "We have our own unilateral sources," the official says...
...Unlike after his initial court appearance, Lindh's parents did not speak with the press this week. They sat silently in the courthouse, watching their jumpsuit-clad, beardless...
...Lindh will appear in court again Monday for his arraignment, when he'll be asked to enter a plea: guilty or not guilty. In the meantime, his parents and lawyers will spend much of the weekend fighting the impression that the question's been answered already...