Inside Washington

When it comes to drinking on -- or off -- the job, FBI Director Louis Freeh will be merciless. While the CIA's James Woolsey was getting hammered for his agency's leniency toward superspy Aldrich Ames' flagrant drunkenness, Freeh issued a blistering Alcohol Policy memo warning agents that even off-duty misconduct caused by drinking will have "harsh consequences," up to dismissal. Even when drinking moderately at a social function, G-men and -women must arrange for a designated driver. Freeh, says one, is "J. Edgar Hoover with kids."