Coming to set terms for DCI

Senator and presidential contender John Kerry has loudly and critically clanged the intelligence-reform bell in President Bush\u27s ears. Recently, Mr. Kerry proposed great expansion of the director of central intelligence\u27s (DCI) authority over the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. But true reform must first come with the DCI\u27s emancipation from the White House through providing a 10-year term as a presidential appointee

Maximizing the Recruitment of Scholarship-Hungry Law Faculty: A Modest Change to the FAR Form

Recognizing the critical need for law school recruitment teams to better assess in advance the scholarship agendas of entry-level candidates registered with the AALS Faculty Appointments Register (FAR) and of candidates who receive on-campus interviews, this article innovatively explores how a modest change to the FAR form might facilitate and transform the recruitment of scholarship-hungry tenure-track faculty

Exercise the Power of the Purse with Hussein

In the same shrewd diplomatic spirit displayed by the Pentagon in its recent purchase of a squadron of MIG-29 fighter jets from Moldova in order to preempt the sale of the planes to Iran, the U.S. should offer to buy Iraq\u27s entire biochemical weapons arsenal and then destroy it in place. Let\u27s call this emerging instrument of U.S. foreign policy preemptive economic diplomacy

Enlisting New Soldiers in the War on Drugs

To downsize the profits in illegal drug trafficking and thus strike an economic blow against the drug cartel, President Clinton should declare a week long moratorium on casual drug purchase and use The president recently expressed alarm that drug use among eighth-graders nationwide has increased 150 percent. Given that, this initiative should primarily focus on teenagers and college students

Government Must Make Consequences Clear

With false-profits mania reigning supreme on Wall Street, Congress needs to establish an academy of corporate responsibility and integrity under the Securities and Exchange Commission. This executive training center would have as students the chief executives and financial officers and boards of directors of the nation’s publicly held companies. Senior partners at accounting companies need to be included in this back-to-school group, too. The enforcement-savvy teachers for this two-week academy would be lawyers and accountants from the commission and Justice Department

The Bite could be out of Noncompete Clauses

While Virginia is generally a pro-business state, the courts do not favor employee noncompete agreements because they are restraints of trade

Chemical Weapons Treaty: Two Views-Keep U.S. Deterrents Credible

President Clinton recently offered to make a written pledge to include the nuclear option in the retaliation package against any adversary that attacks U.S. troops with poison gas. It was part of his effort to co-opt hard-line Republicans in the Senate into ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention

What Intelligence Community Needs

In order to depoliticize any claim that any U.S. president would ever take military action especially one involving tactical nuclear weapons based on politically predetermined intelligence, Congress needs to legislate and fund with a small budget what I\u27m calling the Contrarian Threat Assessment Directorate. The director of this small, independent intelligence arm would be nominated by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and report directly to the president. Through a statutory amendment, the director would become an adviser to the National Security Council (NSC) on the contrarian, dissenting and minority intelligence assessments

A Grand Notion for Power-Center Lawyers

Like leaders of so many administrations before them, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, both lawyers, surrounded themselves with an inner circle composed mainly of lawyers-turned-political advisers and policy bureaucrats. Some would argue that lawyers and politics are a bad brew. But lawyers trust lawyers so much that some will steadfastly defend their political bosses, even if that means being key players in the potential cover-up of a crime. In their skewed minds, accusations of crimes by leaders of the opposing political party are merely biased power politics

Wave of a Troubled Juvenile Future

In the violent wake of the recent slaughter in Springfield, Ore., America faces a future wave of juvenile terrorism from Internet-self-trained, Timothy McVeigh-determined and Unabomber-technically-savvy adolescents intent on getting even with a society they deem responsible for their low self-esteem