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...reason Kerry went to such lengths to assure that the process of selecting him was smooth and certain. It was a secret until the end, the details held fast and then leaked after the fact to strike just the right chord of total control. Kerry positioned himself as the maximum leader, the disciplined boss of a party known for chaos, and signaled that he could run a tight ship, make a crisp decision and then manage the moment. So well executed an exercise it turned out to be that even the maestros of message discipline at the Bush White House...
...assessment of both threats based on unsupported or nonexistent intelligence and on analysis that was "at minimum, misleading." The report quotes the CIA's highest-ranking analyst as saying she instructed her underlings to write a "speculative piece" that would "lean far forward" and "stretch to the maximum the evidence" in response to senior policymakers' interest in links between al-Qaeda and Saddam...
...maximum amount of stock a faculty member may hold in a publicly traded company doing research in a field related to that faculty’s work was raised from $20,000 to $30,000 in recognition of the time that has passed since the $20,000 limit was set. Faculty still may not hold equity in privately-held companies doing research related to their research...
...maximum amount of fees for consulting and other non-equity purposes a faculty member may receive was raised from $10,000 from each business per year to $20,000 per business annually...
...trying to get a nuclear bomb, the CIA relied in part on poorly informed contractors who had limited access to intelligence. The report also quotes the highest-ranking CIA analyst as saying she instructed staff to write "a speculative piece" that would "lean far forward" and "stretch to the maximum the evidence" in response to senior policymakers' interest in links between al-Qaeda and Saddam. That sounds eerily close to accusations made about the British government's September 2002 dossier, which included the claim that Saddam could fire chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes. Blair's foreword pushed...