Word: misconducts
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...Commissioner Fred Goldberg is feeling some heat. A report by the House Government Operations Committee blasts the IRS for high-level misconduct and cover-ups. "Crooks auditing crooks," charges committee chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan. Even worse, a second report by a Goldberg-picked panel of outside experts concludes that the commissioner's solutions to the crisis are "narrow" and deal mostly with "symptoms rather than root causes." Specifically, the panel found that many IRS criminal-investigation agents are not supervised, nor are they adequately trained in ethics. The report was sent to Goldberg...
...past, the Court has struck down every prior restraint it has considered on the merits. It has also recognized the good served by the airing of alleged government misconduct and granted the press special leeway in those cases. The CNN dispute fits squarely into that mould. The power that the national media can wield may be frightening, but it is mild in comparison to the danger of placing editorial decisions in the hands of the judiciary. Moreover, given the questionable complicity between Noriega and the United States Government, we cannot allow that secrecy to continue...
...court. The government last week found itself floundering even further in its bid to convict Noriega of allowing Panama to be used for drug shipments by the Colombian cocaine cartel. During his hearing, Noriega's three attorneys sought to have Hoeveler dismiss the case on the basis of government misconduct, including the alleged illegal taping of Noriega's telephone conversations with his lawyers from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center near Miami. Said attorney Frank Rubino: "The quality and degree of the government's crimes is unlike anything seen since Watergate...
...filed an amicus brief in support of CNN's petition to be freed from the restraining order. A similar brief was filed by several major television networks. Says Jane Kirtley, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: "News organizations are in the business of exposing governmental misconduct, and that's what CNN has done...
Boschwitz, made complacent by polls giving him a 15-point lead in September, initially waged a smug campaign. Then he was sucked into a controversy over his party's initial gubernatorial candidate, Jon Grunseth, who was eventually forced to quit the race because of allegations of sexual misconduct. Boschwitz came across as feckless during that ugly dispute. As his lead slipped, his camp committed what political analyst D.J. Leary called "one of the most incredible political blunders I've ever seen in 30 years." The Senator's supporters circulated a letter among Jewish voters accusing Wellstone of weak commitment...