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...Bill Jefferson, whose New Orleans and Washington homes and offices, as well as his car, were raided by the FBI at the beginning of the month. Jefferson is the target of a long-running FBI sting operation investigating whether the Louisiana Democrat pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars of an investor's money in a business deal involving a high-tech company. Jefferson allegedly promised to use his congressional influence to get government contracts for the firm. Jefferson's lawyer told the Washington Post he is confident his client "did not pocket any money...
PAUL HACKETT, Iraq veteran and Democrat who lost a House seat by only 3,573 votes in a heavily Republican district in Ohio, in a special election viewed by both parties as a prelude to the 2006 midterm elections...
...TIME did the right thing. as a lawyer and a Democrat, I wish the Supreme Court had heard TIME's appeal and protected the confidentiality of its reporter's sources. Still, I applaud Pearlstine for making the principled decision to follow the rule of law, much as he believes the law should be different. We don't have to like laws, orders or rulings. But unless we are anarchists, we should follow them. Rich McLeod Kansas City, Missouri...
...Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand, "I can't see how a small income stimulus is going to do anything." Thaksin's political rivals saw defensiveness in his actions. "He certainly seems to have lost the impression that he is invincible," says Abhisit Vejjajiva, leader of the opposition Democrat Party. Still, Abhisit concedes, "It would be premature to say that the PM could not recover...
...Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the intelligence committee's top Democrat, says that's not the point. President Bush's top advisor, Karl Rove, and others who identified Plame as a CIA employee were picking on someone smaller than them, he says. ?If you're among the top three or four people in the top place in Washington-the White House-you have to be incredibly scrupulous,? Rockefeller told TIME. ?It just doesn't set well. When you have a calculated effort to defame a person whom you've never met, I don't think that's forgivable...