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...gonna protect me on this, right?" the magic words. When someone in Washington makes that request and a journalist agrees to the deal, a blood oath has been signed, no matter how scurrilous or trivial the information involved. You don't break the oath or even hedge on it. You agree to stand outside the law respectfully, not "above" it, and to suffer the consequences. You go to jail to protect your source, if necessary. If you do not adhere to these tribal rules, other potential sources will surely notice and you will be considered unreliable...
...able to tell you what happened in the grand jury room. Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel, told me that he would prefer that I not discuss the matter, and I suspect he said the same thing to White House officials who are now treating his request as a command and refusing to comment on the case. I don't know if I can illuminate this confounding investigation, but I can at least explain my small part in it. Like the blindfolded man and the elephant, all I know is what seems to be in front...
...most incendiary environmental issue, dredging the Hudson of PCBs, GE lobbyists have been unrelenting. One of them, Roger France, is the former chief of staff to Representative Charles Taylor, who received $8,250 from GE for his 2004 re-election. At the company's request, the North Carolina Republican inserted language in a spending bill calling for the National Academy of Sciences to study PCB-contaminated sites and produce a new cost-benefit analysis of dredging, which critics say GE could use to curtail the Hudson cleanup. GE has long insisted that the prudent course of action on the Hudson...
...with a heavy heart, but there's no way certain showdowns can be avoided. In its next term, the court will decide cases that touch on some of the most vexed issues of the culture war, including assisted suicide--can doctors prescribe lethal doses of drugs to patients who request them?--and gay rights--can colleges that receive federal funds ban military recruiters because of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward homosexuals? If that's what the fall has in store, then maybe there's no choice but to bring on the long, hot summer...
...sorry, but we will need more information to complete this request. Please say or enter everything you know...