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Rarely has a national security issue of major importance become a subject of distortion and spin like the debate over the intelligence reform bill on Capitol Hill--the outcome of which will determine how US intelligence agencies and their military function for a generation to come. This is particularly true of the heated debate now taking place over how much power should be given to a new director of national intelligence.
Along with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, one of the most respected defense experts on Capitol Hill, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other elements within the Defense Department have raised serious questions about the farreaching authority granted to the intelligence director under the Senate version of the bill. Specifically, Mr. Hunter believes that the Senate bill would interfere with the military’s access to intelligence on the battlefield.
Right now, Mr. Hunter points out, Army units, Marine
A. gathered.
B. come.
C. piled.
D. originated.
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Rarely has a national security issue of major importance become a subject of distortion and spin like the debate over the intelligence reform bill on Capitol Hill--the outcome of which will determine how US intelligence agencies and their military function for a generation to come. This is particularly true of the heated debate now taking place over how much power should be given to a new director of national intelligence.
Along with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter, one of the most respected defense experts on Capitol Hill, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other elements within the Defense Department have raised serious questions about the farreaching authority granted to the intelligence director under the Senate version of the bill. Specifically, Mr. Hunter believes that the Senate bill would interfere with the military’s access to intelligence on the battlefield.
Right now, Mr. Hunter points out, Army units, Marine
A. he believes that the bill might interfere with the military's access to intelligence on battlefield.
B. he thinks that the bill might translate into ineffectiveness on the battlefield.
C. he believes that the idea of shifting control of defense intelligence agencies away from the Pentagon is a proposal to fix a non-existent problem.
D. he thinks that the bill might at last cause combat casualties.
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Bernard Bailyn has recently reinterpreted the early history of the United States by applying new social research findings on the experiences of European migrants. In his reinterpretation, migration becomes the organizing principle for rewriting the history of pre- industrial North America. His approach rests on four separate propositions.
The first of these asserts that residents of early modern England moved regularly about their countryside: migrating to the New World was simply a "natural spillover’. Although at first the colonies held little positive attraction for the English—they would rather have stayed home—by the eighteenth century people increasingly migrated to America because they regarded it as the land of opportunity. Secondly, Bailyn holds that, contrary to the notion that used to flourish in American history textbooks, there was never a typical New World community. For example, the economic and demographic chara
A. Most of them were farmers rather than trades people or artisans.
B. Most of them came because they were unable to find work in England.
C. They expected that the colonies would offer them increased opportunities.
D. They differed from other English people in that they were willing to travel.
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