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...closed hearing last week, a knowledgeable source tells TIME, Democrat Silvestre Reyes read into the record a secret memo he sent Republican chairman Porter Goss more than a month before the war. Reyes (who, through an aide, declined comment) raised concerns that intelligence agencies may have misled the panel by suddenly touting links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Reyes told the panel that in closed-door testimony over the previous year, intelligence witnesses, when asked if there was any evidence of such links, had consistently said there was "none, or very little if we stretch it." --By Timothy J. Burger...
...says a friend. "He recognizes you don't have to have the top power seat in the Senate to be extremely powerful." Lott has breathed life into the dormant Senate Rules and Administration Committee, whose chairmanship he got as a consolation prize after being deposed. He has used the panel to explore such politically sensitive proposals as changing the Senate's filibuster rules and the laws on presidential succession. And he could become a pest when Bush seeks approval for his $87 billion request for postwar Iraq. While Lott has told Bush aides he will support the request, he says...
Throughout last school year, Harvard’s administrators responded to student protests, lawsuits and Faculty outrage against the school’s protocol for dealing with sexual assault allegations. Within one year of the 200-person Coalition Against Sexual Violence rally on University Hall, a student-faculty investigative panel was recommending sweeping reforms of Harvard’s education and outreach programs. Although Harvard’s effort to deal with sexual assault still needs further support, its efforts seem magnanimous compared to the ignoble and deplorable attempt to cover up and discount sexual assault allegations...
...direct rebuke of the USAFA’s internal inspection, which publicly announced that there was “no systemic acceptance of sexual assault at the Academy,” the independent panel charged that this was merely another attempt to protect Air Force officials when there was a clear, long-standing problem that needed aggressive attention. The report rightly criticized the despicable record that has been ignored by Academy officials. The leadership at the Academy has yet to offer lasting plans to improve the campus environment that is tolerant of these transgressions...
...Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr., who moderated the panel, said that Han’s absence had prevented what “was about to be the reunion of a foursome that first got together in 1994,” when Han served as South Korea’s foreign minister, Carter and Nye worked at the Pentagon, and Hubbard worked as a deputy assistant secretary of state...