Word: agent
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Such treatment should normally be reserved for the most dangerous of criminals. But even more stunning is the extent to which the government grossly exaggerated their claims against Lee. Last August a FBI agent admitted that he gave false testimony at Lee's bond hearing. Experts testified that the information Lee downloaded wasn't as sensitive as the government argued. And last week, U.S. District Judge James A. Parker set Lee free after a plea agreement to a single minor charge. After apologizing for the "demeaning, unnecessarily punitive conditions" of Lee's confinement, he sharply admonished the government's handling...
Even before Ellison's agent approached her, Lang had noticed Ellison and her story...
...resolve the latest dispute, Illingworth said that Scott Levitan, director of University and Commercial Real Estate, has been searching for a spot in Harvard Square that Up Stairs could move to. Levitan identifies himself as "the designated agent who acts for Harvard" in dealings the restaurant...
...hard to find anyone left standing - much less standing tall - after the government's strange case against nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee came crashing to the ground last week. No one was bleeding so heavily as the FBI and its director, Louis Freeh, whose top agent recanted some of his testimony against the 60-year-old Los Alamos engineer. But there was rubble everywhere you looked. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, whose department had ignored security lapses at Los Alamos for years, was walking around in a daze. Rescue workers were still searching for Attorney General Janet Reno and her deputy...
...Then, in August, the government's case collapsed. FBI agent Messemer recanted statements he had made at the December bail hearing about Lee's alleged lies, letters and contacts with Chinese officials - claims that had helped send Lee into solitary confinement. That reversal angered Judge Parker, who already had doubts about whether the sensitive material Lee downloaded was truly vital to national security...