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Sometimes, you just have to leave your mentor behind. In an interview with TIME in August 2001, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said her "model" for the job was Brent Scowcroft, the only person to serve in the post under two Presidents, and the man who, in 1989, had brought Rice from Stanford University to work with him in the White House of George H.W. Bush. Scowcroft was self-effacement personified. For most of his time in office, he would not have been recognized by tourists squeezing their faces between the bars of the north fence of the White House...
...implementing an agenda" that "separates the important from the trivial." In an interview with the New York Times just before the election, she dismissed Clinton's affection for peacekeeping by stating that "we don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten." The Bush team, says Scowcroft, had a sense that "if the Clinton Administration did it, it was suspect," though Scowcroft says that in Washington attitudes like that are "standard procedure...
...sides have even begun talking again. Sources tell TIME that several former senior U.S. officials have recently held informal discussions with Iran, among them Brent Scowcroft, chairman of Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Participants on both sides say the talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points. None of the issues have come close to being resolved. But Tehran has offered to repatriate some al-Qaeda suspects if the U.S. cracks down on the People's Mujahedin (M.E.K.), a group of Iranian exiles in Iraq who want to overthrow...
...information culled from some 500 al-Qaeda captives. "If Americans need any information," he says, "they can ask through countries friendly to us." The two sides are even talking again. Sources tell TIME that several former senior U.S. officials have recently held informal discussions with Iran, among them Brent Scowcroft, chairman of Bush's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Tehran has offered to repatriate some al-Qaeda suspects if the U.S. cracks down on the People's Mujahedin (M.E.K.), a group of Iranian exiles in Iraq who want to overthrow Iran's mullocracy. A senior Iranian official notes, "There...
...past several years, a growing 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...