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Peru: Mayor attempts suicide to escape sentencingAssociated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST     Feb. 16, 2005 Faced with a guilty verdict for masterminding a double homicide, a mayor of a remote Andean village swallowed a flask of poison in court rather than face a 20-year sentence.

It’s important we get our intelligence gathering correct. After all, we’re still at war. We’ve got to find the enemy before they hurt us. We’ve got to do everything we can to protect the homeland. We’re still on the offense here in this country. We’re chasing down these killers overseas so we don’t have to…

For the past nine years, I have been privileged to be part of a great American family, the family of American intelligence. I have lived in the heart of the CIA family. In that long and eventful time, we have shared moments of success and disappointment, of happiness and sorrow. Today, I share with you…

Remarks by the President on the Resignation of CIA Director George Tenet The South Lawn THE PRESIDENT: Today, George Tenet, the director of the CIA, submitted a letter of resignation. I met with George last night in the White House. I had a good visit with him. He told me was resigning for personal reasons.…