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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...
...Falun Gong is an amalgam of religions and exercises that Chinese have known for centuries. Practitioners meditate during a series of ritualized motions that Li Hongzhi invented. The central tenet is that Li himself, either personally or through his books and videotapes, inserts the Falun icon, a swastika-like Buddhist emblem surrounded by yin-yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle...
...Tenet agreement and the Mitchell Report create pressure on Sharon to offer Arafat something in return for a cease-fire, and that's something to which he's very opposed, because he sees it as rewarding the violence of the last nine months. Also, that concession would involve a real settlement freeze, which is something Sharon will find politically difficult to implement - particularly in return for the Palestinians simply stopping violence...
...Palestinians certainly welcome the more active involvement. They may not be getting a White House visit, but it may be even more important to them to have Powell and the CIA playing that refereeing role. They believe Powell and Tenet will be honest brokers. And obviously accepting the refereeing role gives the U.S. more leverage. But it's a role the administration will approach with caution. The core of the Bush criticism of Clinton was that he squandered his political capital by becoming too intimately involved, and both Powell and the President will be reluctant to be drawn...
...Before Tenet's arrival, each side had declared a unilateral cease-fire. The CIA director's mission has been to merge those into a signed agreement, which could stabilize the conflict, restore security cooperation and create a basis for further political talks. So far, he's managed to get the two sides to somewhat reluctantly agree with him. Getting them to agree with each other on cease-fire terms may yet take some doing...