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PEOPLE: Alicia Keys gets political; Oprah's verdict; Rev. Johnny Cash...
...politicians appear to be listening. The White House, which had opposed the creation of the commission out of fear of a politically damaging verdict on its pre-9/11 performance, gingerly welcomed the panel's proposals, then quickly seized the opportunity to champion reform. Bush has asked chief of staff Andrew Card to head a working group to look at how to best assess and carry out the recommendations. The Administration has been cool to the panel's proposal, long debated in intel circles, that a National Intelligence Director (NID) oversee all 15 intelligence agencies, including the CIA, Defense Intelligence...
...VERDICT ON 9/11 A stark report on what went wrong and how to fix it. But will the reforms be implemented...
...community? Whittaker's asked to get a journalist to check it out. What about a response to the federal government's suggestion that it might have to ship radioactive waste offshore because South Australian premier Mike Rann opposes plans for a dump there? "Rann deserves a pasting," is the verdict. It's decided to put more journalists onto the possible outbreak of citrus disease in Queensland. "Could be the biggest disaster in Australian rural history," says Mitchell. But the best contender for the splash is shaping up as a story on Australia's Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., championed...
...VERDICT ON 9/11 A stark report on what went wrong and how to fix it. But will the reforms happen...