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Dick Cheney has taken a hard line against the General Accounting Office, refusing its efforts to get information on meetings held by his energy task force. Critics suspect that Cheney is stonewalling to conceal the Administration's links with bankrupt energy giant Enron. But Cheney may be hiding more than that. Several other energy companies had opportunities to influence the Administration's energy policy, with both persuasion and money...
...supervisors. Most worrying for banks and their regulators is that Rusnak may have used the exact same method as Leeson: when he began to pile up losses in currency trades, he allegedly hid these by fabricating other deals that, on paper, showed him making profits. Leeson was able to conceal his activities for two years because, like many traders at the time, he was authorized both to make and to settle his deals. In the aftermath of the Barings debacle, banks separated the two functions, obliging the back office to double-check trades with the counterparties, often within 48 hours...
...released. She thinks the killer is a middle-aged American who works for a CIA contractor in the Washington area but has had access in the past to the labs at Fort Detrick. She believes he or she has been vaccinated against anthrax and knows how to conceal forensic evidence. Says Rosenberg: "It's highly probable that the perpetrator is someone who was known in the lab, someone who was thought to be O.K." Based on the composition of the anthrax, she thinks, it is likely that the killer knows William Patrick III, the former Fort Detrick bioengineer who holds...
Dick Cheney has taken a hard line against the General Accounting Office, refusing its efforts to get information on meetings held by his energy task force. Critics suspect that Cheney is stonewalling to conceal the Administration's links with bankrupt energy giant Enron. But Cheney may be hiding more than that. Several other energy companies had opportunities to influence the Administration's energy policy, with both persuasion and money...
...treatment during detention. A number of human rights organizations have raised further objections to the treatment of the detainees in transit from Afghanistan. The military should be able to take reasonable actions to prevent the prisoners from hurting themselves or others. The decision to shackle the prisoners and conceal their faces so as to keep them from communicating was justified, given that several prisoners have continued to threaten to kill Americans...