In the days before flying to visit her newborn grandson in Southern California, Sandra Birnbach's hands started sweating. Her stomach churned and her head throbbed. A claustrophobic, she dreaded even the thought of boarding an airplane.
President Bush today nominated veteran diplomat John D. Negroponte to the No. 2 post at the State Department and named retired Navy Adm.
John M. "Mike" McConnell to replace him as director of national intelligence.
President Bush signed a little-noticed statement last month asserting the authority to open U.
S. mail without judicial warrants in emergencies or foreign intelligence cases, prompting warnings yesterday from Democrats and privacy advocates that the administration is attempting to circumvent legal restrictions on its powers..
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Negroponte's departure as the nation's first director of national intelligence comes as the two-year-old office and the broad, post-Sept. 11 reorganization that created it have yet to reach the goal of uniting the intelligence community under a single leader.
Energy Secretary Samuel W.
Bodman has fired the head of the nation's nuclear weapons program, Linton F. Brooks, because of security breaches last year at weapons facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory.
EL PASO Silvestre Reyes is straight out of Border Country, that place of lawmen and bandits, pluck and luck.
New allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay released by the FBI on Tuesday put private contractors at the center of interrogation operations, raising questions once again about where they fit in the military's chain of command.
FBI agents witnessed possible mistreatment of the Koran at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including at least one instance in which an interrogator squatted over Islam's holy text in an apparent attempt to offend a captive, according to bureau documents released yesterday.
To the strains of a Navy piper's farewell, the clank of sword scabbards and the bang of an artillery salute, Washington welcomed the body of former president Gerald R.
Ford last evening.
Frustrated by poor federal cooperation, U.S.
states and cities are building their own network of intelligence centers led by police to help detect and disrupt terrorist plots.
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