Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every political event has a Craig Livingstone standing somewhere near the stage. He's the overweight advance man who's trying to look like a Secret Service agent--the one conspiring into his cell phone and swaggering through the crowd with beepers and walkie-talkies bristling from his belt. Every campaign needs people like Livingstone; they book the hotels, hire the copy shops, polish off the buffet-table spreads and try to make others at the hotel bar think they were in the room for the big strategy session. If the candidate wins, some land staff jobs with impressive-sounding...
...that picture does not match the one offered last week by Gary Aldrich, a former FBI agent who spent five years assigned to the White House. He describes Livingstone as someone who seemed to be executing orders from higher-ups--his bosses during the Administration's first year were Kennedy and White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, both staunch Hillary Clinton allies--in a White House that repeatedly violated the rules surrounding background investigations of White House employees. In an account that appeared on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, Aldrich charged that staff members considered trustworthy...
...spread the blame equally between the two sides of the copy flow, director Louis Freeh seemed to pin it mostly on the Clinton camp. "The prior system of providing files to the White House relied on good faith and honor,'' he said. "Unfortunately, the FBI and I were victimized." Agent Aldrich has refused to provide details about his own allegations, but that may happen as early as next week when William Clinger, chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, will hold hearings on the matter...
...captured commandos off the pay rosters and telling their families they were dead; SOG officers continued the practice. "I think it's terrible, I really do," says George Gaspard, who as a Green Beret major in Vietnam ran a related SOG program code named Oplan-34B. "As an agent handler, that would be appalling to me to write somebody off the books that...
...crime to be controlled by the Mob," prosecutor Coffey points out. To convict Coia under federal racketeering statutes, the government would have to prove that he committed two felonies as part of a criminal conspiracy. So far, "we don't have enough evidence," says an FBI agent...