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...along with it,” Daly said in a phone interview with The Crimson. Councillor Craig A. Kelley said that the Council should have been more vigilant in monitoring Homeland Security efforts in the city. Kelley said that “we the council should have known to press more aggressively” when asking the City Manager about Homeland Security funding. However, not all councillors backed the resolution. Councillor Tim Toomey said that he did not think there had been enough public participation in the night’s decision-making process. “Stores, banks, residents...
While the details about Power’s role remain unclear at this point, she will be required to work closely with Secretary of State Clinton as the senior director for multilateral affairs at the NSC, according to the Associated Press...
...Allegations that the CIA chief in Algiers (identified in the press, though not by the government, as Andrew Warren) drugged and raped two women is going to hurt badly. The accusations that Harold Nicholson, a former CIA operative in federal prison convicted of spying for the KGB, continued his work from behind bars isn't nearly as serious, but it won't exactly help the agency's reputation. Nicholson, who allegedly enlisted his Nathaniel son to collect his KGB "pension" and to pass on whatever secrets Dad still knew, is pretty much stale history. But even so, the news...
...system is supposed to filter these people out, or at least catch them early on in their careers. Certain press reports have described Warren as a talented, aggressive officer, but some people who knew him considered him reckless and impulsive. I am told that he barely got through training, and it was recommended that he be permitted to work only under close supervision. The warnings apparently were ignored because of pressure on the CIA after 9/11 to put more people in the field...
...Monday, Daschle's spokeswoman, Jenny Backus, told the Associated Press that his work on behalf of health-care clients did not constitute a conflict of interest for his job at HHS. "He welcomed every opportunity to make his case to the American public at large and the health-care industry in particular that America can't afford to ignore the health-care crisis any longer," Backus said. Under the Obama ethics rules, Daschle will be barred from dealing with "specific parties that is directly and substantially related to my former employer or former clients," unless he is granted a waiver...