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SENTENCED. Zacarias Moussaoui, 37, al-Qaeda member who pleaded guilty to helping plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks; to life in prison without parole; in Arlington, Va. Although some relatives of 9/11 victims criticized the jury for declining to sentence Moussaoui to death, others said they were satisfied because he would not become a martyr. He will spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement at "Supermax" in Colorado, the country's highest-security prison...
...most of all, he had been hired as CIA chief at the very moment the job began to lose its clout. Less than a year after Goss stepped into the Langley, Va., post, Bush named Negroponte director of national intelligence (DNI) and gave him the authority to oversee and direct 16 intelligence shops--among them the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the FBI. Armed with new powers created by Congress, Negroponte was supposed to make the hidebound agencies work together and share information, something they had largely failed to do before 9/11. Goss's departure was, above...
...will probably run for President in 2008. Warner, who initially encouraged businessman Harris Miller to run, has said he will stay neutral before the primary. But he may be changing his bet: he makes his first public appearance with Webb this week, at a fund raiser in Arlington, Va...
...heroes, if there are any at all, sit behind gray desks in Moscow; Langley, Va.; and London. There they must sift through tons of material provided by hundreds of different sources before they can, with luck, piece together a picture of, say, the locking mechanism on a swing-wing fighter ... It is work that occupies tens of thousands of mathematicians and cryptographers, clerks and military analysts, often with the most trivial-seeming tasks. Yet it is work that no major nation feels it can afford to halt ... In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold...
MCDREAMY MCDRIVER Actor and racing aficionado Patrick Dempsey, co-star of TV's Grey's Anatomy, is now a co-owner of an Indy Racing League team. Va-va-va-vroom...