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Kristol's criticism "misses the whole point and proves the validness of the document," Friday says. "It's not a partisan document, and we did not choose sides...
...need is as great as that document indicates, if not greater," Friday says. "The cutbacks [in education] have been very costly for America...
That grim diagnosis is based on a detailed 2,000-page report summing up a 15-month investigation. The document charges that the Jersey City system is afflicted with "political patronage, union pressure and cronyism." Former Mayor Gerald McCann, for example, reportedly laid off dozens of teachers who failed to support his political campaign. School-board members (all city-hall appointees) have been accused of such shoddy financial supervision that favored contractors collected some $3 million above approved funds. A gym teacher became his school's personnel chief after his union backed the election of incumbent Mayor Anthony Cucci -- whose...
...FIRESIDE DOCUMENT...
...antagonizing officials with their methods. In 1978, when Sullivan was in the CIA's Office of Strategic Research, he became convinced that the agency was suppressing a study he had written based in part on National Security Agency reports he was not authorized to see. So he gave the document to Richard Perle, then an aide to Senator Henry Jackson, later an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "The study contained some very sensitive intelligence," recalls former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who forced Sullivan to resign from the agency. Hardly slowed by the episode, Sullivan moved to Capitol...