Word: discreditation
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...told its viewers, was a country of "order and prosperity." One young historian argued that Nicholas was a statesman of almost supernatural insight, though he gave himself away when he went on to suggest that Rasputin--the Czarina's "spiritual adviser" whose scandalous reputation did so much to discredit the Czar--was given a raw deal. The guiding logic of the programs seemed to be that if the Bolsheviks hated Nicholas, he must have been a wonderful...
...able to get testimony before the November election. Though he could still send Congress an interim report on his investigation before then, even House Republicans are hoping he won't. That would make it too easy for Democrats to nail his inquiry as a partisan attempt to discredit a popular Democratic President. Says a House G.O.P. source: "Nobody here is shouting...
Brazelton says the Republican Party sought to discredit Clinton because it felt threatened by the popularity of her family and community-oriented values...
Arrington's strategy would be to discredit Pitts, as he did in the earlier trials. He would bring up the money federal agents paid Pitts back then and would pronounce the government's main witness "bought and sold." And Arrington would revive old allegations that the FBI let Pitts cavort with a mysterious blond while he was in custody. "I got pictures of her in a car with Billy Roy," Arrington boasts. It was these doubts about the government's star witness, he says, not jury tampering, that hung the previous Bowers juries. He thinks they could work again...
...weeks Starr's operation had been exchanging fire with the White House over who was doing more leaking, lying, manipulating and stonewalling. Last week, after TIME reported that the White House had been waging a covert campaign to discredit Starr's deputies, perhaps with the help of private investigators, the prosecutor prepared to respond with some hardball of his own. But by subpoenaing White House spinmeister Sidney Blumenthal to probe his contacts with the press, Starr succeeded in undermining himself in ways the White House could have only dreamed...