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PENETRATING AL-QAEDA: Tenet's toughest moment came when Senator John Roberts said his constituents at a Dodge City, Kans., coffee shop wanted to know why John Walker Lindh could get into al-Qaeda but the CIA couldn't. Tenet, visibly upset, replied, "You better tell everybody at the cafe it's not true." Did he mean his agents had infiltrated al-Qaeda? A U.S. official told TIME that Tenet meant just that; the CIA does have a spy inside al-Qaeda--the first time the agency has ever acknowledged this. "We have our own unilateral sources," the official says...
When CIA chief George Tenet made his first public testimony since Sept. 11 last Wednesday, it was in front of a pretty tough crowd. Delivering his annual "threat assessment" to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tenet faced a longtime critic, Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, who asked him, "Why were we utterly unaware of planning and execution of the Sept. 11 attacks?" Tenet bristled and tried to rebut, but his answers raised new questions in three crucial areas...
...long been a tenet of pro-business Republicanism that no one ought to be making that decision for them. Which is why George W. Bush, unfurling Friday his proposed changes in the nation's 401(k) laws that will supposedly prevent Enron from ever happening again (and Bush from paying any more for it politically), did not propose that employees be limited in how much of their company's stock they can hold in their account. (What if it happens to a good investment?) It's also why the things Bush is proposing are, to put it mildly, rather mild...
...Dave Thompson: The most important thing is to control who gets in. At the Olympics, you've got a lot of people, and a basic tenet of security is to keep control over who gets close to the venues - and that includes trucks making deliveries and buses coming in and out of restricted areas...
...With or without Arafat, the agenda for peace remains the same. And as unpalatable as that may be to Sharon, it includes all of the issues negotiated at Camp David and after. The Mitchell and Tenet plans were simply short-term programs to bring the parties back to that point. Those plans may have failed, and nobody's expecting any resumption of dialogue in the near term. But nor is anyone expecting to see a peace concluded on anything less than...