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...separate security agencies, both of which lost the paperwork. Only when a more frantic warning came were the arrests finally made. Given the heightened risk of terror attacks in Europe, a growing number of German investigators are calling for an overhaul of the country's internal security apparatus. "Everyone hears about the problems with the FBI and CIA, but that's because they've come clean and are doing something about their weaknesses," says Klaus Jansen, an investigator with Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) who spent five years as a liaison officer in the U.S. "Our system...
Lithgow said that, as president, she is responsible for the main direction of the organization, including its business apparatus, alumni affairs, advertising and staff...
...take an example 30 years old as the sole guide to our actions today. There's an analogy much closer to hand. Iraq is a dictatorship with a centralized economy; it strictly controls access to the outside world; its people live in fear of thugs from the state security apparatus; and not least, it devotes much of its budget to secret military programs. All of that was true of the European communist nations during the cold war. Yet, though there have been bumps along the way, Central and Eastern Europe now are places of democracy, free markets and peace. What...
...take an example 30 years old as the sole guide to our actions today. There's an analogy much closer to hand. Iraq is a dictatorship with a centralized economy; it strictly controls access to the outside world; its people live in fear of thugs from the state security apparatus; and not least, it devotes much of its budget to secret military programs. All of that was true of the European communist nations during the cold war. Yet, though there have been bumps along the way, Central and Eastern Europe now are places of democracy, free markets and peace. What...
...would replace Torricelli? The decision fell to Gov. McGreevey who controlled the state party apparatus. "First, we tried to find out who wanted it," McGreevey told TIME. A comedy of errors on Monday and Tuesday, though, prevented a seemless hand off: Bill Bradley, the ex-Senator, unreachable for hours on a vacation out west, declined. Two congressmen first expressed interest and then withdrew. When rumors that a state senator might get the nod, Washington Democrats made it clear they wouldn't fund an unknown. Meanwhile, Frank Lautenberg, the 78-year-old ex Senator, wanted in. Corzine, the reserved Wall Street...