Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson had reported in early May that Loury's nomination had been delayed because of what officials termed a routine FBI security check. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had vowed to testify against Loury at Senate confirmation hearings and many other advocacy groups were contemplating following the NAACP's lead...
...editor, to 14 Democrats and Republicans running for President. Whitney was right. In the most exhaustive set of questions ever put to national candidates by a news organization, the Times has asked not only for such routine documents as birth certificates but also for psychiatric records and access to FBI files. Though the candidates have had the Times request for more than a month, none have complied completely and nearly all are complaining about its scope. Says Patricia O'Brien, press secretary to Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis: "You ask questions. You don't say, 'Here is my plate. Fill...
Where most candidates say the Times has gone too far is its wish to review medical records and FBI files. "We have no interest in waiving privacy rights to allow newspapers to go on a fishing expedition," said John Buckley, press secretary to Republican Congressman Jack Kemp. Dukakis also will not sign a waiver. Three others -- Republican Alexander Haig and Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Albert Gore Jr. -- are undecided...
...wasn't the KGB that was coming, Miss Hall, it was the FBI," countered Sen. Warren B. Rudman...
...FBI and the Department of Justice are also on hand, and PTL Board Member Jerry Nims, for one, hopes for a full-dress fraud investigation. He charges that the local representative for PTL's outside auditors, Laventhol & Horwath, operated a secret fund through which PTL higher-ups got enormous bonuses. Laventhol says it is unable to discuss the situation until PTL gives permission. In addition, says Nims, some PTL officials were observed pocketing cash from mail donations right off the counting table...