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...spokesman. Some of the FBI's own: What exactly did HRT commander Dick Rogers understand about his latitude to make operational decisions without seeking clearance from FBI headquarters or from Reno? And why didn't FBI lawyers alert Freeh and Reno when, in February 1996, they received a memo from Quantico reporting that HRT operators had sought and received permission to attempt to gas the concrete bunker with military rounds that had "the potential for causing a fire"? And did conflicts within the federal team at Waco play any role in the decision making? Byron Sage, now retired...
...Memo to Moscow: Want a bit of cash for those depleted Kremlin coffers? It's easy ? just dust off the missile silos. The U.S. Monday announced a new breakthrough with North Korea, after the two sides agreed at talks in Berlin that Pyongyang would suspend missile tests in exchange for Washington's moving to ease economic sanctions on the impoverished communist state. Thus far, North Korea has agreed only to refrain from firing another missile while talks last, but observers believe it?s the first step toward a comprehensive agreement to end the missile program in exchange for economic assistance...
RICHARD S. STEEN (above, right), the acting director of the troubled Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), was the author of a confidential memo that revealed the problems in the understaffed, underfunded office. On Thursday, Dean of the Faculty JEREMY R. KNOWLES (not pictured) promised that funding for HASCS would be increased in "the near future...
...gruesome screams in Murders in the Rue Morgue, suggested "reducing the constant loud shrieking to lower moans and an occasional modified shriek." At other times they took the stern approach, telling Howard Hughes he was forbidden to make the gangster film Scarface. The producer's response, in a memo to director Howard Hawks: "Screw the Hays Office. Start the picture and make it as realistic, as exciting, as grisly as possible." Within four years the Hays system was kaput, and a new, tough Production Code was installed. Overnight, Hollywood movies went from jazzy to genteel...
...That?s right. From Microsoft to Big Tobacco to our very own government, nothing wounds a giant more reliably than some candid internal documents ?- and this case is no different. Some of the uncovered memos attest to Justice?s knowledge that it was breaking the 1945 law; others point even further, to two sets of books: one for the payroll department and another for supervisors, who tallied up overtime hours as a measure of a lawyer?s efforts. The case will be defended by other Justice Department lawyers, lawyers who stand to get paid more if they lose...