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...effort to save Newt reached a peak last week with the release of a letter signed by Representatives Porter Goss of Florida and Steve Schiff of New Mexico, the two Republicans on the four-member ethics subcommittee responsible for investigating Gingrich. As such they were the only Republicans with firsthand knowledge of the range of evidence against him. In their letter they announced their intention to vote for Gingrich and said they knew of "no reason now, nor do we foresee any in the normal course of events in the future, why Newt Gingrich would be ineligible to serve...
...Schiff says Paxon and Linder also reached into the ethics committee itself, first approaching him and Goss several weeks ago to propose that they make public whatever they properly could from the investigation. "Bill Paxon and John Linder had said to us on several occasions they were looking for all possible ways of getting information out to Republican members that could be legally released before the speakership vote, because they said their phones were ringing off the wall with respect to members calling and asking questions. So we knew the leadership wanted--at least that portion of the leadership wanted...
...good job," says Henry Berghoef, partner at Harris Associates, which holds $1.3 billion of Time Warner stock. Others see Icahn's criticism of Time Warner as playing Monday-morning quarterback. "It's hard to pick a date and say this is the way things should have gone," says James Goss, media analyst at Barrington Research. "Things were evolving." Then, paying off debt was critical, and something had to go. Parsons chose the troubled music division. Still, says Larry Haverty, money manager at Gabelli Asset Management, the value of the division today is $2 billion higher than the $2.6 billion...
...like, plans to create a large wing in the spookhouse dedicated to sorting through various forms of data that are not secret--such as research articles, religious tracts, websites, even phone books--but yet could be vital to national security. Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that CIA Director Porter Goss plans to launch by Oct. 1 an "open source" unit that will greatly expand on the work of the respected but cash-strapped office that currently translates foreign-language broadcasts and documents like declarations by extremist clerics. The budget, which could be in the ballpark of $100 million...
...Chinese culture has revered power and ignored the plight of the underdog. The Chinese respect strength but if threatened will retaliate with even greater strength. They will not accept help or surrender their values. David Cherbonnier Singapore The Top Snoop Speaks In TIME's interview with CIA director Porter Goss [June 27], you asked him, "Could the U.S. go to war again based on false intelligence?" Goss disingenuously replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that we did so. Why can't Administration officials simply speak the truth about our invasion of Iraq? The indisputable fact is that President...