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...director authority over 70 percent of the intelligence budget. According to a fact sheet, Goss' bill would implement many of the recommendations issued in December 2002 by a joint inquiry into 9/11 by the House and Senate intelligence committees, and it would boost the director's authority to wield more management power than some critics believe outgoing Director George Tenet has mustered. The chairman of the September 11 Commission told TIME he expects that his panel will review Goss' bill while writing its reform recommendations in the coming weeks. "I would put a lot of weight behind anything Porter Goss...
...well-equipped armies numbering as many as 20,000 members each, and has made them the de facto governments inside large swaths of Colombia. And their civil war no longer has much to do with ideology; it's far more about amassing wealth. But the AUC and the FARC wield power, and firepower, that a druglord like Escobar could only dream of. Should the groups eventually fill the more centralized cartel roles that the Medellín and Cali organizations once played, says one U.S. official, it could create "a catastrophic scenario" for the drug war in Colombia, where...
...government’s lawyer, Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, claims that because the war on terror is global the whole of the United States is a battleground as well. But if the Supreme Court accepts this justification, it will open the way for the Executive Branch to wield the same kinds of “emergency powers” so often misused in Third World dictatorships. Because the war on terror has no borders and no way of being declared “over,” the Bush Administration can effectively continue to detain Padilla and anyone...
...Chalabi insists he harbors no grand political ambitions. "I have no desire to be a candidate for anything," he says. But Chalabi may try to make himself felt even if he is not named to the post-June government. He has positioned enough allies in Iraq's ministries to wield significant power behind the scenes. He is building a political machine for Iraq's elections, which are scheduled for next year. But if democracy does come, Chalabi's connections aren't likely to help him. "He's looking for a base of support," says Mahmoud Othman, a Kurd...
...Master Dorothy A. Austin and I] are very excited about it and hope to wield a hammer one weekend ourselves,” Lowell Master Diana L. Eck writes in an e-mail...