Word: dragnets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MIKE ESPY Survives $17 million dragnet over free tickets and gifts. Your tax dollars at work...
Forget about habeas corpus. The FBI plans to charge Eric Robert Rudolph with the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, even though he's eluded their dragnet for almost nine months without straying far from his backyard. Rudolph is also wanted for an attack on an Alabama abortion clinic in which an off-duty policeman was killed, but the feds hope the new charges will smoke him out of his North Carolina mountain hideout. "Investigators hope that the new charges will make any antiabortion fanatics who may be helping Rudolph back off," says TIME Atlanta bureau reporter Tim Roche...
...President Clinton and Paula Jones are in the midst of cutting a deal over her sexual harassment suit -- nearly six months after an Arkansas judge dismissed it, nine months after it sparked off the Monica Lewinsky investigation, and one month after the President angrily denounced the "politically motivated" sex dragnet in his grand jury testimony. Although neither the White House nor pugnacious personal Clinton attorney Bob Bennett would discuss the details, the Times reports that Jones' lawyers have asked for $1 million and that Clinton's have countered with $500,000 -- roughly equal to Paula Jones' legal costs. Mercifully, Jones...
...revealed as much about his moral outlook as his legal one. There is "no room for white lies" in sworn testimony, even if the case is thrown out, he asserted. "In that civil case, you cannot defile the temple of justice." Starr recalled fondly the Joe Friday character on Dragnet who was interested in "just the facts, ma'am." His rambling sermon was so defensive that White House staff members started paging one another, asking, "Are you watching this?" A staff member said, "It was like Captain Queeg. All that was missing was the metal balls and the strawberries...
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL: Know when to fold. That extraordinary driveway press encounter, in which you lapsed into Spanish and claimed Dragnet's Jack Webb as your hero, did not inspire confidence. Right after that, your ally Senator Arlen Specter hinted that you might want to spare Republicans a long national nightmare unless you have an open-and-shut case. But your crusade is all the chattering classes have left. Better that you be the first I.C. to prosecute a cover-up of a sin, not a crime, than that we return to covering IMF funding and NATO expansion...