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...pushed for a plea, getting support in swaying Attorney General John Ashcroft from such corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities...
...bold talk of "skipping a generation" of military weaponry. Bullet-headed Defense analyst/visionary Andrew Marshall, who has been scaring the calcified Pentagon hierarchy for decades, was put in charge of the review. And the administration's big guns - Bush, Cheney, Powell and once-and-current Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - had the clout to make bold and necessary changes where Clinton feared to tread...
...Rumsfeld is set to deliver the Bush administration's 2002 Pentagon budget to Congress today. He's asking for $329 billion, which is $18.4 billion more than Bush had requested earlier this year and a $33 billion increase over President Bill Clinton's final defense budget, making it the largest Pentagon increase since the Reagan years...
...they do what they're told to do by the Defense secretary and above. This is a lack of civilian leadership. Clinton was terrified of the military, because of the draft and the gays-in-the-military thing. But Bush has that necessary standing, and Cheney, Powell and Rumsfeld have the wherewithal and the knowledge to make big changes...
...Rumsfeld plainly wanted to do more - he was hamstrung right from the get-go. So you look at Bush and Cheney, in terms of setting the administration's agenda, and you figure they decided they had bigger fish to fry, starting with...