Word: agente
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...aide. But in truth, the heat was on Bush. For the first time since the war began, the White House was struggling to remain in control of the agenda. Bush went before the cameras only hours after the televised congressional testimony of FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis agent who ripped the bureau's pre-9/11 bunglings in a letter to director Robert Mueller last month. A no-nonsense Midwesterner with a grim, credible tale of field agents being smothered by layer after layer of self-protecting bureaucrats, she told her story Thursday on Capitol Hill, where multiple...
Rowley's memo ripped into FBI chief Robert Mueller just as he was changing the way the bureau hunts terrorists in the U.S.--nine months after he first made that very same promise. Mueller announced Wednesday that he was retargeting more agents at the terrorists, empowering local field agents to seize the initiative, centralizing information in Washington so that every agent would know what every other agent was doing and creating a special branch of analysts to think through every unimaginable possibility. Mueller cited Rowley's memo and an e-mail written last summer by agent Kenneth Williams in Phoenix...
LAUNCHING AN INVESTIGATION An agent with suspicions that a group of people might be contemplating terrorist acts had to get approval from headquarters before opening an investigation of the group. It was a hurdle that could slow or stall the process...
...Norwalk, Connecticut. Skakel was allegedly unhappy about Moxley's interest in his brother Thomas. The case, frozen for more than 20 years, was built on confessions Skakel made to friends at the Elan School, a drub rehabilitation center for kids in Maine. DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, former talent agent, ex-chairman of MCA Inc. and the last of the Hollywood tycoons; in Los Angeles. Wasserman built MCA into an entertainment colossus with a film studio, TV studio, record label, theme parks and theatres. In over fifty years in the business, Wasserman's clients included Bette Davis, James Stewart, John Garfield...
...colleagues and I were expected to follow his example. Loyalty was very important to Lew: loyalty to clients in his early agent days, loyalty to those who were counting on us in later times. It was no accident that MCA executives frequently spent most or all of their careers with the company. It was like our family. It would take care of us. Honesty was essential to Lew. Our integrity was never to be questioned. And nobody ever wondered about our financial statements. He earned his power over and over again. Lew really wasn't the "last mogul...