Word: illicitness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scandal. Illicit activities. There. Now you're reading...or at least that's what the newspapers would lead you to believe. Tabloids like the National Enquirer and The Star make their money from tawdry journalism--if yellow journalism was the sobriquet for sketchy political writing and slightly unconventional reporting style, their writing would best be labeled red, for ignominy. The screaming headlines and conspiratorial accusations and the near voyeuristic exposes of public peoples' private lives make a mockery of the profession and of the noble possibilities of a free press...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: For Fred Thompson, the main problem with illicit Asian donations is that they don't seem to be news to anyone. But last week's swing-and-a-miss performance has forced Thompson and his committee to downshift, laying the groundwork for what they see as a pattern of illicit Asian contributions to political campaigns. Today's Exhibit A: a memo in which John Huang asked the Lippo Group, for whom he worked in 1992, to "please kindly wire" some $50,000 to the Democratic Party. Before long, a red-faced DNC was announcing the return...
...says a veteran Justice hand about the proliferation of plumbers' squads. "Some days, we spend a lot of the day being interviewed." Among the offending disclosures: a Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy that detailed U.S. intelligence intercepts of a covert Chinese-government scheme to funnel illicit money into political campaigns; revelations of plea-bargain negotiations between Justice and Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that alleged CIA killer...
...authority of the federal government over religious practices. That law was pushed through Congress in response to a controversial 1990 Court decision that laws can be valid even if they infringe on some people's religious beliefs. Opponents of the law charged that it allowed groups to hide illicit activity under the cover of religious belief. Supporters countered that some protection was necessary to prevent the rights of religious minorities from being trampled. Today, the court ruled that its earlier precedent could not be overturned by Congress...
...revealing pillow talk about the Whitewater investment scheme. In a series of recent interviews with Arkansas state troopers and 12 to 15 women, including Paula Jones, investigators swerved from their usual hunt for business-related information to unearth details on Clinton's sex acts and any illicit rendezvous with other women, The Washington Post reported. Attorneys working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr argue that the interviews were necessary to establish whether President Clinton had confided details of his business investment to anyone. Maybe next they'll be hunting down people Clinton went to camp with in the fourth grade...