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...risk, made the call based on an abundance of testing and analysis over the past week, rather than from any rocket jockey arrogance, which was largely blamed for the last two shuttle losses. Among the 30 organizations from which scientists were called in for independent analyses: Ames Research Center; Langley Research Center; the White Sands Test Facility; and the Johnson, Kennedy and Marshall space centers. And, of course, there was input from NASA headquarters...
...urgent days of May, the CIA let on to the Saudis that al-Ayeri might know about the mubtakkar cell - and that he might be the only one. In postmortems that roiled through Langley, that last part was seen, maybe, as a misstep. 9/11, with 15 of the 19 hijackers from the kingdom, created the greatest fissure in the long, dime-a-dance waltz between Saudi Arabia and America. The effect of a second disaster - with chemical weapons and a clear link to Saudi Arabia - would be unfathomable...
...middle of March, as the invasion of Iraq directed the energies and focus of the Administration, CIA chiefs huddled in Langley. They simply had no context for either the trio in Bahrain or the ones in Saudi Arabia. The White House and CIA pressed officials in both countries with a single message. We're on the case. Just don't let these men go free. (See surprising assets on the CIA payroll...
...Central Intelligence Agency as Deputy Director for Operations after a personnel disagreement with then Director Porter Goss. But in the spy game, as in life, things can change quickly. Now Goss has resigned as director and Kappes, a respected CIA veteran, has agreed to return to Langley to serve under the new director, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden...
...road and Hayden is running the show, the source observed. That energy, along with his alliances throughout the intelligence community and his standing on the Hill, could help Hayden rebuild morale at an agency that has suffered from public failures and private infighting. Many officers in Langley, Va., were ecstatic over the news that the unpopular Goss was leaving and that Hayden hopes to make Stephen Kappes--a respected veteran of covert operations who quit on Goss-- his deputy...