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...Dasch was a persistent double-traitor, though, and took a train to Washington, went to the Justice Department and demanded 15 minutes with J. Edgar Hoover. He was dismissed, but finally got an audience with a mid-level official. When Dasch opened his briefcase and showed the official $85,000 he'd been given for the operation, he got his 15 minutes with Hoover. Soon the FBI had arrested Dasch's roommate, and learned about all the others, including the Florida quartet who by then had made it to the Midwest. The newspapers at the time touted...
...order similar to the one Bush signed Tuesday, and the trial took place in what was then an assembly room for the FBI on the fifth floor of the Justice Department, down the hall from the Attorney General's office (a plaque now commemorates the location, room 5235). J. Edgar Hoover sat at the prosecution table. The press was excluded, except one day when reporters were allowed in while proceedings were in recess so they could see the setup. There was still no revelation that Dasch and his roommate had cooperated. Their plan had been to blow up factories, bridges...
...dropping out of acting school at Carnegie Mellon and after having been busted and bailed out for marijuana possession, I wrote my first song. I was living with my grandmother in Watch Hill, R.I., working in a boatyard, trying to get past being a hippie. I wrote the song Edgar for a lobster fisherman there. It isn't very good, but the next week I wrote three more. I was really enthusiastic. I started doing gigs on the folk scene in New York and Boston, and about a year later I had a deal with Atlantic Records...
...investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks was barely under way when the grumbling started about the bureau's treatment of local law enforcement. Such complaints have dogged the place since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, but today there is more riding on the issue. Local police and sheriffs say they are eager to be the eyes and ears and legs for the bureau's overburdened agents. Michael J. Chitwood is chief of police in Portland, Me., near the motel where two of the hijackers, suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, spent the night before the attacks. Chitwood complains...
...have retired with none. Hate Mariano Rivera’s sub-1.00 postseason ERA. Hate The Curse. Hate Tim McCarver’s obvious broadcasting bias. Hate how the sportscasters fawn over what class acts the Yankees are—as if Seattle’s John Olerud and Edgar Martinez ran around strangling cats in their spare time...