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Investigative reporter Jack Anderson made a 50-year career of annoying officialdom. President Nixon put him near the top of his enemies list, prompting a wry and very Andersonian response: "Maybe it was alphabetical." With characteristic restraint, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the columnist was "lower than the regurgitated filth of vultures." But Anderson has now performed a feat of Mau-Mauing perhaps unique among all muckrakers: he is irritating the government from the grave. You see, Anderson died four months...
...says Feldstein. The lone once classified document he recalls seeing: Anderson's FBI file. The agents, Feldstein says, pressed him about whether any Anderson documents pertained to an ongoing espionage case against a pair of former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). But Feldstein says the columnist had been ill for the past 15 years and never did much reporting on AIPAC...
...Columnist Joe Klein noted Senator Bill Frist's missteps as he has courted the G.O.P. presidential nomination [April 10]. I too am repulsed by politicians who put personal job security before defending the democratic principles that have made our country a beacon of freedom. Two people could lead the country away from the poverty and suffering resulting from Republican corruption and mismanagement: Al Gore and Senator Russ Feingold. True leadership is necessary to address global warming, nuclear proliferation and national security...
...reciprocal--Bush was still hot months later about how she was treated, viewing her as a victim of snobby élitists. To White House officials, Miers is a quiet workaholic who got an inexcusably raw deal. To some outsiders, her name remains synonymous with Administration missteps--a conservative columnist called the Dubai Ports debacle a "Harriet Miers moment...
...years, Catholics in Washington have kept informal count of possible high-profile Opus people, including Justice Antonin Scalia and almost-Justice Robert Bork, Senators Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback, columnist Robert Novak and former FBI head Louis Freeh. The tally was not totally arbitrary: Freeh's child went to an Opus Dei school, and his brother was a numerary for a while; Scalia's wife has attended Opus events, and the Justice is close to an Opus priest; and Brownback, Bork and Novak converted to Catholicism under one's wing. Several have denied the rumors ("I can't stress enough...