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...claim to be defending freedom while contemplating ways of increasing domestic spying and limiting our freedom? Will future terrorist attacks result in additional limitations to freedom? Failure to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks apparently happened because of turf wars, ineptitude and a lack of intelligence coordination, not for lack of the necessary information. DUANE PETERSEN Fircrest, Wash...
Taking center stage at this week's G-8 summit in Canada, President Bush will offer $500 million to fight HIV and AIDS in Africa. But behind his proposal lies a bureaucratic battle - and a story that speaks volumes about turf wars in Washington...
...America's top official for economic assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development head Andrew Natsios . As Thompson discussed the new HIV-AIDS plan, Natsios grew upset and insisted that his agency should play the lead role. Bush, who is famously impatient with internal bickering, was visibly irritated by the turf skirmish, and sharply instructed Deputy National Security Advisor Gary Edson to resolve the dispute...
...fiscal 2006 as part of Bush's so-called "Millennium Challenge Account". The funds will be managed largely by the Treasury and the State Departments, not by USAID. "The agency looks like it is loosing out on new funding, and that is why Natsios has mounted a turf battle," explains an influential congressional staffer. Adds a senior U.S. official: "Given the record of foreign aid failures that this administration wants to change, there is considerable support at the cabinet level for getting away from AID and letting other parts of the government take charge...
...Salvador Dali. Each of the teams is led out by the silicone jiggle of a "ladyboy" (Thailand's English term for transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with giant scissors, and its two halves waft skyward, borne...