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Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has been leading the charge in the Bush Administration for Washington to take on Saddam Hussein. Brent Scowcroft, George Bush Sr.'s National Security Adviser, now working as an international consultant, is more closely aligned with G.O.P. centrists, notably Secretary of State Colin Powell, who question the wisdom of waging war to topple the Iraqi President. In a pairing some observers thought was odd, Scowcroft joined Wolfowitz last week on a 20-hour nonstop flight to Singapore, where the Deputy Secretary was giving a speech at a three-day security conference (Scowcroft had been invited...
...intelligence community. Some critics say the only sensible reform is for the CTC to become a model for the larger community--merging multiple intelligence agencies under the authority of the director of Central Intelligence. Congressional sources tell TIME that an advisory panel headed by former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will recommend just such a reorganization later this year. But the idea probably won't go anywhere. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to oppose any proposal to take away the Pentagon's control over the Defense Department's intelligence agencies, where most intelligence dollars go. Tenet, who spent...
...first Bush Administration, Rice was close to National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, and she has parlayed that into even closer ties with Dubya. She filled the empty vessel of the candidate's foreign policy during the campaign and now spends occasional weekends with him and his family at Camp David. She complements Colin Powell, but it's clear who is steering the ship. Her extra time with Bush, she says, "gives us a chance to step back...and talk more about our broader objectives...
Rice's unilateralist tone irritates G.O.P. moderates. She froze Russia out for the first three months of the Administration, pushed a tougher public line on China, and questioned both current talks with North Korea and a previous agreement. That approach is worlds apart from the style of Scowcroft and the President's dad. "One of his father's great skills was reaching out to other people," says a senior Republican statesman. Bush Sr. speaks often with his son but is careful not to appear to push him to the center...
...understand the dynamics, it helps to back up a few paces. The last time Powell worked with a Bush, the foreign policy team was built on centrism. The President had long experience; his best friend, Jim Baker, was at State; his foreign policy mentor, Brent Scowcroft, was at the National Security Council. The tough guy at the Pentagon, Dick Cheney, was reined in by the consensus among the others. The team worked seamlessly, pretty much agreeing on things, sharing an outlook that was steady, center-right, practical. Powell loved it and felt an integral part...