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CONVICTED. George Ryan, 72, ex-Governor of Illinois; of racketeering, mail fraud, making false statements to FBI agents and tax evasion, in one of the biggest corruption scandals in state history; in Chicago. The accusations ended the Republican's political career in 2003, even as he basked in global acclaim for commuting the sentences of all of Illinois' death-row inmates...
...Goss told the Senate intelligence committee on Feb. 2 that he had ordered "an investigation of finding out what leakage, if any, is coming out of that building. And I'm afraid there is some coming out. I've called in the FBI, the Department of Justice. It is my aim, and it is my hope, that we will witness a grand jury investigation with reporters present being asked to reveal who is leaking this information. I believe the safety of this nation and the people of this country deserve nothing less...
...Drop in the number of prosecutions in which the FBI was the lead investigator, from...
...Increase in the number of FBI-led prosecutions regarding national security or terrorism in the same period...
...years, Catholics in Washington have kept informal count of possible high-profile Opus people, including Justice Antonin Scalia and almost-Justice Robert Bork, Senators Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback, columnist Robert Novak and former FBI head Louis Freeh. The tally was not totally arbitrary: Freeh's child went to an Opus Dei school, and his brother was a numerary for a while; Scalia's wife has attended Opus events, and the Justice is close to an Opus priest; and Brownback, Bork and Novak converted to Catholicism under one's wing. Several have denied the rumors ("I can't stress enough...