Word: fbi
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Under pressure from Edwards, the FBI began to look into the threats on July 17. Later that day armed men abducted Ana Maria Lopez, 31, a Guatemalan woman involved in helping Central American refugees. After warning her to stop criticizing the Salvadoran government, the kidnapers dumped her in Pomona, Calif., 25 miles east of Los Angeles. "They told her that just as people are killed in Central America, they can be killed here," says Linton Joaquin, director of the Central American Refugee Center in Los Angeles...
Many believe Walsh will begin handing up indictments as early as next month. But some prosecutors question whether the independent counsel can win convictions, particularly after the outpouring of sympathy for North. Observes former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal: In Watergate, "serious criminal statutes were involved. Officials were obstructing an FBI investigation, there was a 'smoking-gun tape,' the White House was paying burglars to keep quiet. Here, everything is murky." Attorney Arthur Christy, a former special prosecutor who investigated charges against Jimmy Carter's aide Hamilton Jordan, also doubts that convictions can be achieved. Says he: "A good prosecutor might...
...hunt for the Green River Killer has pulled together police resources from throughout the Seattle area, but to little avail. A task force that currently includes 19 detectives, two FBI agents and a computer expert has already spent some $10 million and investigated 1,300 suspects. Yet an additional 6,000 names await full checking, a process that can take anywhere from an hour to six months...
...correction was another blow to the Times's Washington bureau and Whitney, who was appointed by Frankel. In June, after Whitney had sent a letter to presidential candidates asking for personal documents, plus access to psychiatric records and FBI files, Frankel issued a memo saying the request had gone "too far." A few days later Frankel sent a memo chastising the bureau for "lassitude" in following up Washington Post scoops. Admitted a Times staffer: "Let's face it, we were getting clobbered on the Iran-contra story...
...installation of a $13,900 set of security devices at the house, had testified that two guards had been living in North's garage, but the North family had found this inconvenient and wanted less intrusive protection. Never mentioning the guards, North contended that he had turned to the FBI for protection and was told the agency could not provide it. He asked his "superiors," who told him that a secure phone could be installed and then expanded into a more elaborate system. This proved "not feasible," North said; he was about to leave on a secret mission to Tehran...