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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (30438)	5/22/2002 11:47:45 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Here is another take on the investigation problems. New Republic Editor Peter Beinart takes a swipe at the GOP: "Republicans generally think of themselves as apostles of tough love. Ask them about welfare mothers, juvenile delinquents, or failing schools, and they'll tell you that without high expectations and stern punishments, compassion usually does more harm than good. During his presidential campaign, George W. Bush vowed to usher in a 'responsibility era.' "That ethos is particularly lacking, most Republicans believe, in government bureaucracies, which, sheltered from the discipline of the market, become insular, self-perpetuating bastions of mediocrity. . . . "What's wrong with limiting the inquiry to the Intelligence Committees? First, they do most of their work behind closed doors. Second, much of what they do behind closed doors is go soft on the Intelligence Agencies. . . . "Last week George Tenet testified that, 'when people use the word "failure", "failure" means no focus, no attention, no discipline, and those were not present in what either we or the FBI did here and around the world.' "The CIA, in other words, says it didn't do anything wrong. That's not surprising, it's what Republicans would expect a bureaucracy to say. What is surprising is that this administration, in violation of everything it supposedly knows about bureaucracies, trusts the CIA to reform itself anyway. The Bushies imply that the CIA's work is too important to be hampered by pesky outsiders asking difficult questions. . . . When it comes to the agencies the White House prizes, it seems, the 'responsibility era' can wait." washingtonpost.com