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...dealings with Abramoff while he was a senior official at the General Services Administration, the procurement agency for the Federal Government. Sources at the Interior Department tell TIME that its inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, has been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into Abramoff's dealings with the Cabinet agency???which oversees many of the Indian-related issues Abramoff built most of his career around. In particular, the agency is looking into ties between Abramoff and former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, who has been accused of intervening in agency deliberations on behalf of the Coushattas. Griles has denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Bought Washington | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Whatever the degree to which Congress can be informed?and even critics of the CIA concede that it is tricky for legislators to be in on the decision-making of an espionage agency???there is a clear necessity for Congress to hold the Executive more accountable for what the CIA does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: The CIA: Time to Come In From the Cold | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...account of the high cost of cabling, the French Havas agency has decreased its news services from this side of the Atlantic. In addition, much of the German news reaching Paris has come from the Wolff Agency???German, in fact semi-officially the agency of the German Government. Moreover, the United Telegraph, a German agency with an English name, has, according to the French Senator, virtual monopoly in Central Europe where it spreads only Teutonized news. This is a very serious situation for the French, and they are prepared to spend considerable sums in disseminating their own brand of news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journals, Not Newspapers | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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