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...three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later. In the long term, however, Watergate proved to be more of a boon for Republicans as it helped convince Americans of a bedrock conservative tenet: government is not to be trusted, the people in power in Washington are up to no good. When President Reagan told us in his 1981 Inaugural Address that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," it was the memory of Watergate that had many...
Sooner than anyone expected, Bush was back. On Wednesday afternoon CIA Director George Tenet received an astonishing report, transmitted over the CIA's classified communications network: U.S. intelligence sources had pinpointed the whereabouts of Saddam and his top military leaders in Baghdad; Administration officials told TIME that the intelligence was gleaned from multiple sources, including electronic eavesdropping and reports from a single Iraqi official who had recently turned on Saddam. A senior Jordanian official says tips were also passed to the U.S. by a Jordanian diplomat and Egyptian intelligence agents, who claimed they had identified Saddam's exact location...
...held a closed-door hearing on the subject last week, with more planned. In part to cut wear-and-tear on existing satellites - which one source said are already operating as much as 20% below their original image-gathering capacity - and reserve time for intelligence needs, CIA Director George Tenet last June ordered that virtually all government mapping be done with commercial imagery. In a memo whose tone sources interpreted as reflecting an urgent situation, Tenet ordered that government spy satellites "only be tasked under exceptional circumstances" for mapping...
Although evolution is now a central tenet of biology, some aspects of the museum’s mission have remained constant since its establishment, according to Hansen...
...declassified answer is, yes, they can do that." GEORGE TENET, CIA Director, when asked if North Korea already has a ballistic missile capable of reaching the west coast of the United States "These are all process issues. These are all tricks that are being played on us." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, dismisses a third progress report on Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors "As a person, I feel miserable and my heart is aching." KIM DAE-JUNG, South Korean President, apologizes for the Hyundai scandal, in which loans to the company were secretly funnelled to North Korea "India desires...