ISRAEL’S MOSSAD HAS ITS OWN PUTSCH UNDERWAY

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This just in from UPI’s Intelligence Watch, authored by John C.K. Daly and Martin Sieff: Turmoil rocks politicized Mossad The CIA is not the only major intelligence agency rocked by resignations of senior veteran officials and charges of politicization.

DEMS NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF KNEE-JERK CIA-HUGGING

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ON THE ONGOING CONVULSIONS AT THE CIA, Douglas Jehl writes: Porter J. Goss, the new intelligence chief, has told Central Intelligence Agency employees that their job is to “support the administration and its policies in our work,” a copy of an internal memorandum shows.

BUSH’S BROADBAND SCORECARD: F

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CYNTHIA WEBB ASKS WHETHER TELECOM IS BACK? Well, maybe for the oligopolistic Baby Bells, but the innovative technology players are struggling hard to get us the infrastructure that America’s so-called “information age” needs but doesn’t yet have. The news on broadband and high-speed, big information pipe connectivity is mixed.

BERLIN GETTING INTO BLOGS

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THIS SHORT PIECE (IN GERMAN) RAN IN BERLIN’S LARGEST DAILY, Der Tagesspiegel. The Washington Note got a nice plug. Recently, the Heinrich Boell Foundation hosted a group of German journalists here in the U.S. — and many of them seemed interested in doing more to encourage political blogging in Berlin and Brussels.