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...chorus of intelligence experts, led by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, has called on Congress and the White House to place all the budget authority in the hands of a single Cabinet-level intelligence chief. But the Bush Administration has ignored these calls, partly because Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld has no intention of giving away power without a fight and partly because the White House has no desire to pick a fight with him. It was therefore striking that the Pentagon came under such heavy fire in last week's bipartisan report for resisting requests made by CIA Director...
...took a tentative step in that direction late last week, saying it would send ships to the waters off Liberia and contribute $10 million to help fund the logistics of moving West African peacekeepers into the country. The announcement followed by several days an order from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to move the ships into the Mediterranean Sea, where they could reach Liberia more quickly if called upon. The Administration's language was so tortured that it could mean almost anything--or nothing. The "appropriate military capabilities," the White House said, would be on a mission of "limited time...
Your report "Life Under Fire," about the troops in Iraq, bore sad testimony to the failed postwar campaign [IRAQ: BATTLING THE CHAOS, July 14]. While Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spars with journalists over the precise meaning of guerrilla war, Americans are suffering casualties on a daily basis, and their attempts to help the Iraqi people rebuild a country sputter and stall in the face of a security nightmare. No one in the U.S. government or military can take pride in the postwar situation. Instead of planning to protect Iraqis' most precious resources, we became helpless witnesses to the chaotic looting...
...Clark's account squares with a CBS report last fall suggesting that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had urged his aides to begin making the case for striking Saddam as well as bin Laden within hours of the attacks. And media reports from the time suggested that by late September of 2001 Administration hawks were pressing for an attack on Iraq, while doves led by Secretary of State Powell were narrowing the focus to bin Laden and Afghanistan...
...intelligence community, it was hailed by Wolfowitz, who wrote in a blurb to her book that it "argues powerfully that the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was actually an agent of Iraqi intelligence." And invade-Iraq cheerleader Richard Perle, formerly head of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board, wrote in his own blurb: "Laurie Myroie has amassed convincing evidence of Saddam Hussein's involvement in the first attempt to blow up the World Trade Center. If she is right - and there are simple ways to test her hypothesis - we would be justified in concluding that Saddam was probably...