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...used by the financial-services industry. And "the wall"--a set of legal rules that kept agents working on secret intelligence-gathering missions from talking to prosecutors about their observations--has been bulldozed. "Mueller is changing the culture," says Representative Frank Wolf, who oversees the bureau's budget on Capitol Hill. "He's changing attitudes." Will that be enough? Wolf pauses a minute, and then says, "There is a passage in the Bible about putting new wine in old skins...
...important for us to remember that the impact of the 9/11 plot was, to a huge extent, lessened (and thereby, in a sense, prevented) by the actions of the brave passengers on board United Flight 93 who, by confronting their hijackers, quite likely averted an attack on the Capitol or the White House. They did not let themselves be deterred by the difficulty--the near impossibility--of the task. In the same way, the courage of rescue workers and other heroes that day at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon saved countless lives. Like those men and women...
...children—eight-year-old Aaron and 11-year-old Anita—are in Washington, D.C. this week to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Yang’s arrest in a ceremony Monday on Capitol Hill...
...federal amendment banning gay marriage, just as I would against those who think an S/M workshop is A-OK—but whatever someone’s personal misgivings about the issue is besides the point. Rather, what’s tragic about the gay rights fight in the Capitol and the “gay rights” fight at Harvard is that they so often resemble two ships passing in the night...
...depth of election-year partisan division, not only on Capitol Hill but also in the electorate, will likely limit the extent to which either Rice or Clarke's testimony alters the political landscape. Rice's calm, competent performance, has redeemed the administration somewhat. But calls for declassification of the August 6 briefing and questions over the duration and nature of the joint Bush-Cheney appearance before the commission will keep the fires of Democratic criticism over 9/11 burning for weeks to come...