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...calm the opposition, from Blue Cross and Blue Shield to the American Medical Association. The 32 million-member AARP was the greatest challenge. Gingrich's diplomatic offensive began last March in the first of three private sessions with the lobby's leadership. Gingrich did not exactly wave an olive branch, but did manage to sound as if he genuinely wanted to cooperate. John Rother, the AARP's chief lobbyist, summarizes the message this way: "The Speaker told our board, 'I can't revolutionize Medicare over your opposition, and you can't do what you want to do over my opposition...
Afghan hand Bearden, who later ran the CIA's Soviet branch and was censured for his role in the Aldrich Ames fiasco, insists that the agency must be willing to deal with shady characters and accept that they occasionally go bad. "You have to make it clear-cut that you have moral standards, and you yourself have to be unswerving in them," he says, citing his own refusal to allow government contacts in Sudan to engage in torture, even when it might have helped foil plots on his own life. But, he says, it is harder for CIA officers...
House hearings into the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, produced partisan sparks and riveting, emotional testimony. Republicans accused federal agents of having bungled the operation. Under harsh questioning, former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said he had no advance knowledge of the raid and played no role in the decision to use tear gas to end the standoff. Democrats accused Republicans of having let the National Rifle Association influence key aspects of the committee investigation. Dramatic testimony also came from a teenager who described how sect leader David Koresh sexually molested her when...
...irresponsible, intent on creating a story without any news and alleging a scandal without any basis." Republican colleagues on the panel today appeared to distance themselves from the charges. Rep. Steven Schiff (R-N.M.) said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had a "legitimate interest" in the Branch Davidians because of alleged firearms violations, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.), the other co-chairman, said he agreed with a Justice Department finding that cult members -- not agents -- began the deadly fire...
...Branch Davidian Clive Doyle, one of the few survivors of theWaco raid, gave testimony today that was sharply at odds with FBI and Clinton Administration accounts. The FBI shot first, he told House members, and at least one Davidian was killed by helicopter fire. Both assertions have been flatly denied by the FBI. But Doyle also contradicted himself. Days after the raid he said the compound fire was started inside with Coleman fuel; today he couldn't remember. Defending the Administration today, former deputy attorney general Webster Hubbell, who recently testified at Senate Whitewater hearings, was grilled by House Republicans...