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...Iraq war, Pelosi needs to recover the high ground she lost with her endorsement of Murtha, who said he thought her reform measures were "total crap." It was bad enough that Murtha's candidacy turned the cable-news networks into a film festival of the grainy tapes from the Abscam sting in 1980, in which the Pennsylvania Congressman told an agent posing as an Arab sheik that he couldn't be bribed "at this point." But on ethics reforms or any other tough issues that lawmakers like to publicly support and privately fight, Pelosi might now lack the backroom clout...
...Murtha is a controversial character, thanks to his ties to the 1980s Abscam affair (he was investigated but never charged) and more recently his lavish earmarking as a member of the appropriations committee. A full-blown ethics scandal would be a disaster for the Democrats as they enter their moment in the sun. And if Murtha loses, it's doubly bad for Pelosi. Not only would she have picked sides and lost, but she will have gone down fighting. Miller, for one, seems unfazed. "It's looking pretty good for Jack...
...YEARS AGO IN TIME The Abramoff scandal is only the latest example of dubious money sources greasing politicians' palms. In 1980, the Abscam controversy spotlighted CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION...
DIED. HARRISON WILLIAMS, 81, New Jersey's only Democratic Senator to have been elected to four terms, who lobbied for labor and education before going to prison for involvement in the 1981 Abscam scandal; of heart disease; in Denville, N.J. Last year President Clinton rejected his pardon request...
...Before coming to Washington in 1996, Pickard spent much of his career in the bureau's flagship New York office, where he played a crooked accountant in the Abscam undercover case and later supervised the World Trade Center bombing investigation, the extradition and prosecution of terrorist mastermind Ramzi Yousef and the espionage case against FBI turncoat Earl Pitts...