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After enduring months of criticism for his handling of fallout from the Aldrich Ames spy case, CIA Director James Woolsey -- also under fire for his halting attempts to reorganize the agency -- threw up his hands and resigned. The vacancy at the agency comes as a presidential commission takes up the task of redefining the role of the CIA. Some possible successors: Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch and former House Intelligence Committee chairman Dave McCurdy...
INTELLIGENCE: Why Woolsey Didn't Work...
...move that TIME correspondents say surprised everyone in its timing, CIA Director James Woolsey -- long criticized for his handling of the Aldrich Ames spy case -- resigned today. Woolsey said his "family figures prominently" in the decision to quit. President Clinton said he accepted the resignation "with regret." Woolsey had been under fire for weeks by lawmakers for not adequately punishing CIA officials for bungling the Ames case. Ames, a CIA counterintelligence officer, had been spying for Russia for eight years before being arrested last year. Woolsey reprimanded 11 senior officials but the Senate Intelligence Committee called the action "seriously inadequate...
...Director R. James Woolsey officially declassified the National Intelligence Estimates (NIE's) on November 16 in preparation for yesterday's conference, which was attended by more than 100 intelligence officials and scholars...
...capital letters" -- in part because the CIA didn't tell Congress it suspected a double-agent was loose in its ranks. The FBI also came under fire for being "inexplicably passive" during the early stages of the Ames probe -- the biggest spy case in U.S. history. ButCIA Director James Woolsey-- ripped by the Senate panel -- got off easy this time. "This did not happen on Jim Woolsey's watch," said the committee's ranking Republican, Texas Rep. Larry Combest.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...