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...region's mejor amigo in the new "Century of the Americas." Yet when it came to Latin America's economic travails, Bush adhered to the principle of tough love: no more bailouts. South Americans, however, weren't prepared for the jibe they got from Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill just before a visit to the continent. Even as a parade of U.S. CEOs stood accused of corruption, O'Neill remarked that Washington shouldn't help save the region's debt-choked economies because the money might wind up in Swiss bank accounts. His quip sent Brazil's faltering currency...
...Once O'Neill saw South America's financial chaos up close during that quick tour of battered Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, he wasn't so flip. Before he reached home, the Bush Administration surprised everyone by signing off on a $30 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue loan for Brazil, which began to restore stability. O'Neill gave tiny Uruguay $1.5 billion from the U.S. Treasury to stop a run on that country's banks. Now even profligate, bankrupt Argentina, which has sunk into bottomless recession through corruption and misguided policies, hopes to get in on the aid, though...
...blissless ignorance, Clarke and Tenet waited for the meeting of the Principals. But the odd little ways of Washington had one more trick to play. Heeding the pleas from the FBI's New York City office, where Mawn and O'Neill were desperate for new linguists and analysts, acting FBI director Pickard asked the Justice Department for some $50 million for the bureau's counterterrorism program. He was turned down. In August, a bureau source says, he appealed to Attorney General Ashcroft. The reply was a flat...
Pickard got Ashcroft's letter on Sept. 10. A few days before, O'Neill had started a new job. He was burned out, and he knew it. Over the summer, he had come to realize that he had made too many enemies ever to succeed Mawn. O'Neill handed in his papers, left the FBI and began a new life as head of security at the World Trade Center...
That morning, O'Neill, Clarke's former partner in the fight against international terrorism, arrived at his new place of work. He had been on the job just two weeks. After Atta and Al-Shehhi crashed their planes into the World Trade Center, O'Neill called his son and a girlfriend from outside the Towers to say he was safe. Then he rushed back in. His body was identified 10 days later. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington; Hannah Bloch and Tim McGirk/Islamabad; Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas; Wendy Cole and Marguerite...