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...record on managing the city's emergency responders is more telling - and shows a more complicated leadership style than Americans saw on 9/11. "When we reflected on his tenure, we saw qualities that were not helpful," says Jamie Gorelick, a member of the 9/11 commission and former Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton Administration. "[For President], I think you want someone who is not polarizing. Someone who brings people together by the power of persuasion rather than the power of dictate. Someone who is considering of other points of view and ultimately decisive. And on all three scores, I have...
...hands with those folks if they're gonna yell at you like that," Grassley said in his typical Iowan twang. "These folks follow you on Law and Order," he said, referring to the NBC show Thompson appeared in from 2002 until recently where he played the New York District Attorney. "Nothing but reruns from now on in, I'm afraid," Thompson said, a little wistfully...
...Gary J. Aguirre had to apply 24 times to become a staff attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it only took his first case to make him realize that this was not his public service dream come true. The assignment was heady stuff, a hedge fund insider-trading case that possibly involved one of Wall Street's top executives, John J. Mack, the current CEO of Morgan Stanley. Aguirre threw himself into it with furious energy, and was not intimidated going up against dozens of defense lawyers. That was until his bosses withdrew their support...
...Manganos could also benefit from growing public antipathy to Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, whose office is prosecuting the case. Foti's public approval rating has plummeted since the arrest one year ago of two Memorial Medical Center nurses and surgeon Anna Pou, whom Foti accused of murdering patients in the days following Katrina. The public rallied around the health care workers, and New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan dropped the second-degree murder and murder conspiracy charges last month after a grand jury decided not to indict...
...unreasonable prosecution. "It's unusual from the outset, because most cases of negligent homicide aren't prosecuted criminally, they're dealt with in the civil courts," says Dane Ciolino, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. "Another unusual aspect is the whole backdrop of the attorney general's office vigorously prosecuting the case on the heels of a stinging defeat in the Memorial hospital case. Some look at this as Charles Foti trying to vindicate himself after the Memorial debacle...