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Frago, Gary • racist e-mails are forwarded by, but it's no big deal because "I'm not the only one that does it. I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them...
...like - you could imagine the FBI's relatively small office in Red Bank, N.J. frantically trying to arrange all the necessary surveillance to collect the evidence flooding in like the Navasink River at high tide. ("Hello, Radio Shack, I need 100 tape recorders. Yes, today.") In Thursday's big bust, more than 300 FBI agents were needed to make all the raids and arrests. They probably had to use temps...
...Bush announced 19 pardons. No big names. No apparent political sponsors. But one planned pardon went to a Brooklyn, N.Y., developer who had pleaded guilty in the early 2000s to lying to federal housing authorities. After news accounts surfaced that his father had given nearly $30,000 to the Republican Party earlier that year, the White House backpedaled. It didn't help that one of the lawyers who had sought the pardon had once worked in Bush's own counsel's office - exactly the kind of inside favoritism Bush despised. Bush, who had retreated to Camp David for a last...
...message directly to Bush, as he had with so many other issues in the past, pressing the President in one-on-one meetings or in larger settings. A White House veteran was struck by his "extraordinary level of attention" to the case. Cheney's persistence became nearly as big an issue as the pardon itself. "Cheney really got in the President's face," says a longtime Bush-family source. "He just wouldn't give...
...big job. A total of 4,000 wheels will have to be replaced, and all the trains' axles will have to be checked. Meanwhile, union leaders are furious, saying that Deutsche Bahn should have made these fixes years ago. They accuse the rail operator of cutting corners to save money, putting the safety of its passengers and employees at risk. "We warned a long time ago, as far back as 2003, that there were faults on the wheels of Berlin's S-Bahn trains," says Oliver Kaufhold, a spokesman for the German rail union Transnet. "When a third...