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...those of Kenneth Littleton, who tutored Skakel and his older brother Thomas. Littleton had also been the focus of a police inquiry at the time of the murder. Another witness, retired police chief Thomas Keegan, had earlier testified that he gave an affidavit to prosecutors asking for an arrest warrant for Thomas Skakel, who is two years older than his brother. According to Keegan, his affidavit was rejected by prosecutors because there was no "probable cause" linking the older brother to the murder. "By signing it," the defense attorney asked Keegan, "did you believe there was probable cause?" "Yes," replied...
...true, the episode, which Hoschouer says took place sometime in the '90s, not only sheds new light on Hanssen's twisted psyche but also underscores the weakness in the FBI's system for vetting security clearances. Prior to Hanssen's arrest for espionage in February, 2001, Hoschouer, the renegade agent's childhood friend and closest confidante, was never interviewed during the bureau's periodic reviews of Hanssen's suitability for access to highly classified material...
...Hoschouer admits that even if approached by the FBI prior to Hanssen's arrest, he probably would not have volunteered information about their talks about sex and crime because "I was also doing something that I knew was morally wrong and I might well have omitted mentioning what would embarrass me." That embarrassing part, according to Hoschouer, was that Hanssen had set up a video surveillance system in his bedroom and invited his friend to watch the Hanssens having sex. Hanssen's X-rated descriptions of these trysts can be found on an adult Internet site...
...months, are to yield any results. This is make-or-break time, and more so for the junta than for Suu Kyi. She has little to lose?after all, her legitimacy (as the leader of the party that won the 1990 general election), integrity and stoic acceptance of house arrest enable her to occupy the moral high ground. The generals, on the other hand, are under growing pressure to thrash out with their arch nemesis a framework to move the country forward. Burma is in desperate shape due to a combination of grievous abuse and mismanagement by the military regime...
...What we have witnessed in the last months is a spiral of violence that cannot have a good ending unless we arrest it,” Hanson said...