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...Setting the Record Straight Not The Only One In our report on Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush's National Security Adviser [April 5], we said Brent Scowcroft was the only person to serve as National Security Adviser under two Presidents. McGeorge Bundy and Henry Kissinger also served as National Security Adviser for two Presidents: Bundy under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Kissinger under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford...
...would be staffed with its own corps of spies recruited from college campuses, the CIA and other agencies. According to his allies in Congress, Mueller is leaning toward this idea himself. Meanwhile, support is growing on the Hill for a plan drafted by two-time National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that would create a new intelligence czar with budget and program authority over the CIA and nearly a score of other intelligence units now under the Pentagon's control...
...commands the lion's share of intelligence budgets, much of them spent on satellites. CIA directors have complained of this split-screen arrangement for years, noting that they can hardly be responsible for solid intelligence if they don't control the purse strings. Two years ago, Scowcroft, acting as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, proposed to fix that disconnect once...
...quick ascendancy surprised no one who knew her well. She served in George H.W. Bush's Administration as an expert on the Soviets and arms control, earning the admiration of Bush 41 and Brent Scowcroft. She was Stanford's provost during the Clinton years and quietly worked her way into George W. Bush's inner circle in the late 1990s. She has had trouble since then bridging the deep divide between the Bush team's hard-liners and moderates, but if she has challenged Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld in intramural arguments, she has been careful not to allow those...
Whatever their failings may have been, Clinton's people knew one way in which the world had changed since the early 1990s. At the January 2001 conference at which Scowcroft spoke and which Rice attended, Samuel Berger, Clinton's National Security Adviser, said that "America is in a deadly struggle with a new breed of anti-Western jihadists--nothing less than a war." In answer to a question, Berger was blunt: "We must understand as a nation that we are engaged in a wholly new battle against an international terrorist network in dozens of countries, which is deeply committed...