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According to a USAS statement, the AFL-CIO, the Union of Needletrades and Industrial Textiles Employees and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have all severed ties with the FLA. USAS has called for a national campaign against FLA because it says it is "a weak and insubstantial coverup for continued sweatshop abuses...
Toshide Iguchi, the former Daiwa Bank bond trader at the center of $1.1 billion in losses, stunned a Manhattan courtroom today by accusing at least two senior Daiwa managers of urging him to continue a coverup as recently as a month ago. "This just keeps getting worse and worse," says New York bureau chief John Moody. "The first thing it will probably affect is the Federal Reserve's plan to buy Treasury bonds from the Japanese. We will look awfully naive using taxpayer money to bail out Japanese banks if those banks are playing games with us. It will also...
Eugene Glenn, the FBI field commander at Ruby Ridge, today testified that he felt the internal investigation into the 1992 shootout was little more than "damage control." Glenn's coverup allegations target officials as high as former FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts. His testimony came as four more FBI officials - including Richard Rogers, chief of the FBI hostage rescue team - notified the Senate panel that they intend to invoke their Fifth Amendment right. "It certainly makes the FBI look very bad to the public," reports Elaine Shannon from the hearings. "That four top officials all are going to take...
...then shot his son, his wife and a friend during an 11-day standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Republican lawmakers, in particular, have seized on the white separatist's cause now that five top FBI officials have been suspended while they are investigated on charges of a once-unthinkable coverup. "These hearings are trying to find out three things," reports senior writer Richard Lacayo. "First, what really happened on that mountain. Second, and centrally, who approved the revised rules of engagement. The FBI orders allowed agents to shoot any armed male. Regulations ordinarily allow deadly force only in the case...
Caught between a crusading congressman's accusations and sketchy answers from the U.S. intelligence community, President Clinton says that he'll fire any CIA employee who deliberately took part in an alleged murder coverup . "If there was information that was withheld from the president and from the White House," White House spokesman Mike McCurry said today, "the president has made it very clear, he will fire anyone on the spot who's responsible for that." At the same time, though, McCurry said the White House had no evidence at this point thatCIA or other agency officialshad withheld information...