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...their wives and children, and both fought bravely in war. With the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Bretton Woods international financial institutions, and aid to Greece and Turkey, Truman saved Europe from the Soviet Union and sowed the seeds that eventually brought down the Soviet Empire. Deng's economic reform of 1978, coupled with his persistence and leadership, brought China out of the doldrums of the Cultural Revolution and a stifling communist economic policy and into the modern world. And Deng, like Truman, helped undo the Soviet Empire, by cooperating with the U.S. in defeating the U.S.S.R. in Afghanistan...
...Committee, where he earned a reputation as a straight shooter. In those days, he was said to work well with Democrats. A favorite of Republican leaders, Goss became the committee's chairman just two years later; in that job, he showed more interest in boosting intelligence funding than in reform. He supported a proposal to give the CIA director more control over the nation's 15 intelligence agencies and their combined budget, now $40 billion, but he did little to press for the changes. "If you look at all the things the agency is being criticized...
...risk a backlash from voters by blocking a nominee while the nation was under threat. Kerry signaled that he wouldn't fight the nomination, and though Senate Democrats are still worried that Goss is too loyal to his political masters and too close to his old agency to reform it, for now they don't plan to hold up his appointment. Instead, they say they'll use Goss's confirmation hearing in early September to air complaints about CIA failures--and possibly to grill Goss on his recent proposal to lift the ban on the agency operating inside...
...White House been sitting on a credible proposal for serious intelligence reform for more than two years? Knowledgeable government sources say that a classified March 2002 report from GOP foreign policy eminence Brent Scowcroft, produced for President Bush, proposed reforms similar to key recommendations of the 9/11 commission. Among them: making the current position of Director of Central Intelligence into the national intelligence czar, with authority over a separate CIA director and all or most of the $40 billion annual intelligence budget. One government source said the document contains little sensitive national security information and that its secret status...
...pressure is now building on the President to make Scowcroft?s report public, or at least show it to lawmakers considering major intelligence reforms in the wake of the hard-hitting 9/11 commission report. At a hearing last week, Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts said he had recently ?begged [Scowcroft] on hands and knees to release the report? to the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services panels. Roberts indicated that Scowcroft, who chairs the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, said that decision was up to Bush. Roberts hopes to call Scowcroft to appear before the committee, at least...