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...being a professional spy and knowing the difference between a "live drop" and a "dead drop." A professional from the ranks would be eaten up by Hillary Clinton at State or Bob Gates at Defense. Or he or she would end up like Bill Clinton's CIA director, Jim Woolsey, who was shut out of the White House, ignored, and became irrelevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leon Panetta: An Intel Outsider the CIA Needs | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...increasingly brutal attitude of white settlers towards the Apache: "The civilian scout leader [King] Woolsey, for example, was blunt in his embrace of such tactics. 'As there has been a great deal said about my killing women and children,' he wrote to the territory's military authorities, 'I will state to you that we killed in this Scout 22 Bucks 5 women & 3 children. We would have killed more women but [did not]owing to having attacked in the day time when the women were at work gathering Mescal. It sir is next to impossible to prevent killing squaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Massacre Explained | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

McCain adviser JIM WOOLSEY, accusing the Post of running an "inflammatory" story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

There was always the chance that Sonny Bill Williams would be special. Old-timers remember his maternal grandfather, Bill Woolsey, as one of the toughest men to wear the New Zealand rugby league jersey. Williams, who's part Samoan, started playing at the age of eight for Auckland's Mt. Albert club and was soon turning heads with precocious displays of power and skill. He was in primary school when spotted by a scout working for the Australian National Rugby League club Canterbury, which brought him over to Sydney's southwest when he was 15. Three years later, Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Play | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...Caribbean, steel, railroads and atomic power in South Korea, real estate in the U.S., mining, fuel oil and cooking oils, aircraft leasing, shipping, fertilizer. In spite of the toast last week in China, Rabin tried to downplay Eisenberg's sales efforts. By coincidence,CIA Director R. James Woolsey had just reported to a congressional committee in Washington that the value of Israel's military sales to China over the past 10 years ''may be several billion dollars.'' At a press conference in Beijing, Rabin confirmed that sales had taken place but quibbled about the total: ''All these stories of billions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL'S SECRET WEAPON | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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