Word: aldrich
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...motivated by self-protection. Anticipating that she would be called as a witness in the unfolding Paula Jones case, she wanted evidence that Lewinsky had confessed an affair with Clinton. But Tripp had an even longer standing interest in the White House's sexual mores. After her friend Gary Aldrich was discredited by the White House for writing about alleged sex play there, she got angry and hoped to shore up his account in a book of her own. She sent a proposal to a literary agent in New York, but the publishing plans never panned...
...afternoon ceremony will take place in front of Aldrich Hall...
Next week the bureau will be blasted again by the inspector general for dragging its feet in pursuing CIA traitor Aldrich Ames, who worked for the Russians in Washington (and under the FBI's and CIA's nose) for nine years before he was finally captured. Such failures tend to crowd out the agency's successes--the imprisonment of Mob boss John Gotti, the conviction of the World Trade Center bombers, the capture of the alleged Unabomber, the solution of the Montana Freemen standoff--and leave morale at an all-time...
...victimized" by the White House's actions. "Freeh has a tremendous talent for self-preservation," says a senior White House official. "He figured the waters were rising and decided to get himself to dry land." The bureau also slipped the White House an advance copy of former agent Gary Aldrich's salacious memoir of his tenure at the Clinton White House. "The hallmark of the FBI has been that it's free of politics," says Kentucky Representative Hal Rogers. "With Filegate and other possibilities of political interference, the bubble has burst...
...ALDRICH AMES CIA officers point out angrily that while the bureau has done well catching spies, it has a poor record of detecting them in the first place. In the Ames case, it was the CIA that eventually identified Ames as the mole and turned him over to the FBI to build the case for his arrest. Ames began his career as a mole literally under the watch of the FBI. In April 1985 he began visiting the Soviet embassy in Washington to pass secrets. FBI cameras that are constantly trained on the Russian embassy from a nearby building recorded...