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...That's not what most people think, obviously. To judge by the antics of Representatives Cynthia McKinney, Patrick Kennedy, Katherine Harris and Duke Cunningham, being a member of Congress is a little like being James Bond, without the neat gadgets but also fewer bullets. Still: Car crashes! Fistfights! Luxury yachts, $2,800 dinners and wild card games! The prostitutes reportedly procured for Cunningham don't quite fit into the Bondian mold until you consider that at least Cunningham didn't pay for them himself...
...down as his boss Director Porter Goss leaves later this month, cleared defense contractor Brent Wilkes in for at least one visit to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., within the last 12 months, sources tell TIME.The visit occurred before Wilkes was cited - though not charged - in ex-congressman Randy ?Duke? Cunningham?s November guilty plea as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided over $600,000 of the $2.4 million in bribes that Cunningham admitted accepting from defense contractors. (Though Wilkes is not named in the Cunningham indictment, his attorneys, who insist Wilkes has done nothing wrong, have confirmed...
...According to the new report, members of the Durham police initially made comments to Duke police officers and others to the effect that the accuser "kept changing her story and was not credible" and that if charges were brought, "they would be no more than misdemeanors" and that this would "blow over." The report suggests that the comments by Durham police officers were one reason Duke officials were so slow to respond to the incident. It found no cover-up by Duke officials but did find a communication gap among Duke administrators...
...March 14, the day after the alleged rape occurred, Duke Police Director Robert Dean told Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek about the previous night's incident and the Durham police's comments. Dean did not mention that the woman was African American. The committee found it "extraordinary" that no one in a senior position at Duke, including President Richard Brodhead, knew the racial aspects involved in the incident until March 24. Duke Police also did not pass along information about a 911 phone call in which a woman complained of racial slurs coming...
...report found that it was a "major mistake" by Duke police, Wasiolek and others to take at face value the comments of Durham police officers that the accuser was "not credible." That assessment affected not only senior administrators' perception of the incident but also that of the players who "may have been lulled into a false sense of security...