In the business world they keep score by counting their money. In Washington it is the accumulation of power that determines the winners. So it was remarkable last week to see denizens of the capital giving away power, and in large dollops.
First Bill Clinton agreed that his CIA director could have near veto authority over the appointments of intelligence chiefs in the Pentagon and other government agencies. It was even more remarkable to watch the Senate Intelligence Committee trying to ladle out still more power for the CIA chief by proposing that he control the entire $28 billion annual intelligence...
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