Word: g-men
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...wanted to hang with the g-men, but today they're all business," said Damon M. Kelley as he smoked a pack of Marlboros and watched men in sparkling grey suits hustle...
...Apocalypse was postponed, of course, and since that dud of a Judgment Day, not much has changed in Montana. This spring the world is still about to end. On the Republican eastern prairie, the Freemen are holed up, surrounded by oddly tolerant G-men. In the more liberal western mountains, Ted Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, has been flushed from his trollish lair and jailed. For me, a resident of Montana's center (both geographically and politically), there's cosmic symmetry in this: right-wing nuts on one flank, suspected left-wing terrorist on the other. It's a state...
...journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force. His genial host was the chief quarry of all those G-men: Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, supposedly one of the world's leading cocaine traffickers...
...James Woolsey was getting hammered for his agency's leniency toward superspy Aldrich Ames' flagrant drunkenness, Freeh issued a blistering Alcohol Policy memo warning agents that even off-duty misconduct caused by drinking will have "harsh consequences," up to dismissal. Even when drinking moderately at a social function, G-men and -women must arrange for a designated driver. Freeh, says one, is "J. Edgar Hoover with kids...
...Rodham Clinton in the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock. But as associate White House counsel, he has shown mainly a talent for getting in trouble. He drew a reprimand from the White House last summer for appearing to make political use of the FBI by calling in the G-men to investigate the White House travel office. He has been taking heavy flak for the strange anomaly of a White House staff peopled largely by aides whose legal right to roam its corridors is questionable. A third of the 1,044 employees have never received permanent passes attesting that...