Locked inside the Capitol in room H305, a racquetball-court-size chamber outfitted with eavesdrop-proof paneled walls and soundproof padded doors, the members of the House Intelligence Committee could barely mask their indignation last week as they hurled questions from a horseshoe-shape dais.
How, they demanded, could Aldrich Ames have spied for Moscow since 1985 without detection by his CIA colleagues? Seated at a table below the opening of the curve, Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey parried the questions with candor, defensiveness and anger. Yes, there had been warning signs that Ames might be a problem: a drinking habit, a foreign-born...
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