In other news from Washington, The Justice Department has decided not to press criminal charges against several CIA officers for their role in the death of American missionaries in Peru. In April 2001, the Peruvian Air Force shot down a plane, acting on information supplied by civilian contractors working for the CIA that the plane was running drugs. U.S. missionary Veronica Bowers and her 7-month-old daughter were killed. In 2002 the Bush administration agreed to pay a total of $8 million to the survivors of the downed airplane, including Bowers’s husband and her son. The Justice Department made the announcement one day before Alberto Gonzales took control of the office.