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...typical when political interests supercede the rule of law. Since 1996, the Clinton administration has been rightly criticized for its lackadaisical manner concerning Chinese gathering of American secrets. The 900-page Cox Report, unanimously approved by the bipartisan House Intelligence Committee, put enormous pressure on the White House to act. When political winds are swirling, the ability to conduct a thorough investigation is, to be sure, difficult. But to single out just one employee and saddle him with the blame is inexcusable. Even more worrisome is suspicion that Lee, a naturalized American citizen, was targeted because of his Taiwanese ancestry...
...believe that when I see it. It seems inevitable that if an extreme football league created by a wrestling maven is to be successful, the circus act element that defines pro wrestling will eclipse whatever actual playing is going on. Otherwise, you've essentially got a glorified version of the Arena Football League, which most casual fans aren't aware even exists...
Breaking through the personal barriers to get people to talk about issues like faith and fear may be a Moyers forte, but it is not easy to act on in real life, even for the Moyerses. After Bill's mother died a year ago April, on the first day of their shooting the series, he was struck by an image in his mind "of a shadowy figure, the back of whose head I could see as she moved toward an exit sign...Now she's gone, and there's nobody in my native family between me and the exit sign...
...also his most powerful backers in Washington and the wider Latin American community to steal an election just four months ago came as a bombshell - particularly since the apparent catalyst was the release on national TV of videotape showing Fujimori's shadowy intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, apparently in the act of bribing an opposition legislator into supporting the president. After all, scandalous as the revelation may have been, dirty tricks by the Fujimori regime are hardly news, and their exposure doesn?t quite explain the sudden change of heart on the part of a man who until now has stubbornly...
...forces continue to play a major role in politics, and Montesinos had long been viewed as the power behind Fujimori's throne. To understand exactly what has happened over the past week, it would help to know just how the videotape depicting him in what appears to be an act of bribery found its way into the hands of the opposition and onto television - an apparent sting worthy of his own intelligence service's political dirty tricks. Observers will be closely watching Montesinos's movements, because while Fujimori also announced the disbanding of his intelligence service on Saturday...