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...public debate has been vigorous, even bloody, as officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations skirmish over who paid more attention to the looming al-Qaeda threat in the run-up to the attacks. It is certainly extremely important to understand whether more could have been done to protect us. But the furor over the allegations by Richard Clarke have framed the question facing the public as simply whether you believe the former terrorism czar's charge that the Bush team took its eye off the ball, or whether you accept the administration's account of Clarke as a disgruntled...
...weakens the position of all the guards for their to be fewer unionized workers. And it weakens campus unions at Harvard as a whole,” said Mackinnon, who participated in last summer’s protest to protect security guard jobs from outsourcing...
...does a civil servant who has launched a major attack on the Bush presidency protect himself from what he has unleashed? Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush--who saw al-Qaeda expand under his watch, attack U.S. interests abroad and produce the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history--knew he couldn't pin the blame on his bosses if he didn't start by apologizing himself. So he prepared his words carefully. At 3 a.m. on the day of his testimony, "I got up and went down to my study and actually...
...Hamas to fear us." Hamas, he says, "exists in the middle of the people. You can't fight them without fighting your brothers." Some Gazans love Hamas, others fear it. But potentially all contribute to a kind of "popular army" ready to take up stones or rifles to protect Hamas should the Palestinian Authority go gunning for them. Ajez for one thinks Sharon is trying to egg on such a battle: "Israel wants us to kill each other. Then who will they need to negotiate with?" He, for one, says he will not get involved. "I will go sit with...
...Dutch representative to the convention drafting the E.U. constitution. De Vries is well known as a defender of privacy and civil rights--which might reassure those who are worried about intrusive new antiterrorism laws but won't please those who think the police need new tools to protect Europeans from attack...