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...years, the club rarely met at all, and then only at openings of presidential libraries or VIP funerals. But as Presidents have lived longer after leaving office, most have tried to stay busy, and some have felt underused by their successors. Harvard business and government professor Roger Porter, who has worked as an aide to three Commanders in Chief, explains, "Being President is like drinking from a fire hydrant. And then suddenly this entire apparatus that has been feeding you, and caring for you and making you feel important and helping you make decisions that really do matter, is gone...
While critics decry the CIA for using secret prisons overseas to interrogate and allegedly torture suspected terrorists, America's spooks are also contending with another issue--how such sensitive information became public in the first place. CIA Director Porter Goss, U.S. officials tell TIME, has ordered a top-level review of agency tradecraft procedures, including measures his National Clandestine Service takes to keep the movement of terrorist suspects it nabs out of the public eye. Amnesty International announced last week that it had identified, from flight records, six planes used by the CIA that had made some 800 trips through...
...Times, was based primarily on the statements of an al-Qaeda prisoner the U.S. had handed over to Egypt in January 2002--who later said he had fabricated the claim to avoid torture. With more unwelcome attention to the CIA's interrogation record, covering his spies' tracks isn't Porter Goss's only p.r. problem...
Having taken only one art history course while at Harvard, Schuker said that interdisciplinary classes taught by Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Eric Rentschler and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand have “inspired her to study art in times of heightened politics...
...enjoyed a drink. Fearing that deskbound managers would veto the contact, the spook was thrilled to be told "to use his instincts, be smart and see" what develops. The episode, related to TIME by someone close to the agency, is meant to illustrate how, a year into Director Porter Goss's tenure, the CIA is inching back to the risk-taking culture that helped it share credit for winning the cold...