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Bush has insisted that he did not know Kamal Adham, who was running Saudi intelligence at the same time Bush was CIA director. The question was raised last year when the White House was embarrassed by the revelation that Adham had hired chief of staff John Sununu's ex-aide Edward Rogers for a $600,000 fee. A senior intelligence officer stationed in Saudi Arabia during those years told TIME last week that Bush's denial is not credible. "It's flat impossible," he says...
Baker would provide something Bush has lacked since John Sununu departed last December: a high-level bad cop who can keep the troops in line and sometimes read the riot act to Bush himself. Bush's aversion to conflict makes him a congenial fellow, which is a recipe for failure in a presidential campaign. Yet Bush resents having to ask Baker to bail him out one more time, / and the Secretary has long since grown tired of coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot...
...know things are bad when folks at the White House joke about the good old days under Sununu. SAM SKINNER is taking some heat for the current drift at Bush Central. The White House chief of staff met with top Bush operatives last week to discuss leaks, a phenomenon with which some of those in the room certainly have a passing acquaintance. Assuring the group that he assumed none of them would ever leak, Skinner asked them to help stop unauthorized chatter. Some left the meeting shaking their heads. Many of the most damaging comments from Administration insiders of late...
...three months on the job, chief of staff Sam Skinner has emerged as a restless, one- minute manager who cannot stay focused on a subject for long. Skinner's vaunted personnel reorganization has so far only added extra bodies to the already bloated operation left by his predecessor John Sununu. When Skinner released a plan two weeks ago to funnel all policy issues through a single West Wing committee, one top official cracked, "It's perfect. After three years, we finally get a policymaking body, but we have no policy to make...
...Sununu visited the store after the signs went up Saturday, and was pleasant but modest, he said...