Word: counsels
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...Democrats claim, another Republican attempt to smear Clinton's name? He is hardly the first to grant pardons to those with whom he has political or personal ties. Former president George H. W. Bush pardoned six colleagues involved in the Iran-Contra affair, a move that ended the independent counsel's ability to prosecute the incident (especially significant, given that Bush was himself a key suspect...
...their work is based on intuition or visceral reaction to reporting," says former cia analyst Melvin Goodman, now a professor at Washington's National War College. "The standards of evidence are very weak." Former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith agrees: "You have bits and pieces you can assemble that give you some degree of confidence that you're accurate, but it's rare you find a smoking gun." In some cases, of course, a tiny bit of evidence can make all the difference. In the Pan Am 103 case, for example, it was the CIA that first identified the fragment...
...lover, helped jump-start his practice by naming him the court-appointed attorney for 56 indigent defendants, giving him three times as much in fees as the court's three other judges gave him combined. What's more, she ruled on those cases without revealing to the opposing counsel her relationship with Fletcher. It's not uncommon for judges, especially elected judges like Chrzanowski, to send a little business to their friends. It is vastly uncommon--in fact, profoundly unethical--for judges to assign loads of cases to lawyers they're sleeping with, and then preside over those suits...
Dozoretz's name surfaced at the hearing in a Jan. 10 e-mail from a Marc Rich confidant in Switzerland to Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel who lobbied Clinton on the pardon. The message reports on a conversation with Denise Rich, who was visiting Aspen with Dozoretz, identified as "B" in the e-mail. "Her friend B... got a call from Potus who said he was impressed by [Quinn's] last letter and that he wants to do it and is doing all possible to turn around" the White House counsels, it said. Denise Rich, it went...
...everyone agrees, however, that this is the way to go. "The problem with Propositions 36 and 200 is not their lack of jail time," says Susan Weinstein, chief counsel for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. "It's the dependence on treatment. What defines treatment? Will it help them stay off drugs and stop committing crimes...