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...think that what set this off was the fact that the president’s staff or confidantes—knowing that Dean Kirby was about to announce his resignation—decided to leak it ahead of time... and thus embarrass the dean” said Peter K. Bol, the Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations. “I think that it was incomprehensible to deny a person the dignity of announcing his own resignation...
...caller smells a gaseous odor emanating from the Center for Government and International Studies on Tuesday, Jan. 24. HUPD suspects a possible gas leak and phones University Operations and Cambridge Police Department for assistance. But in the end, no evacuations were needed. Apparently, it was just a bunch...
Buffeted by Katrina, the CIA leak and Iraq, Bush was teetering on the edge of irrelevance after a largely wasted 2005. But he found his voice in an improbable place: at the center of what looked like a serious scandal. Bush had personally tried to keep the New York Times from revealing the existence of a White House--authorized program to tap calls coming into and going out of the U.S. without a warrant if they involved a suspected terrorist, and just last week he told the Wall Street Journal, "I'm sorry we're talking about...
...Chicago, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, also the special counsel in the CIA-leak investigation, is presiding over an ongoing contracting and patronage probe that has already led to 30 indictments, including those of two lieutenants of Mayor Richard Daley. A federal official tells TIME that the bureau is looking closely at possible Daley links to the scandal, although an FBI spokesman stresses that Daley himself is not implicated to date. At the same time, former Illinois Governor George Ryan stands trial on various corruption charges (which he denies) that arose initially out of a probe into whether low-number license...
...subpoen a reporters and their records could change that. And the CIA has a group of mostly retired officers on contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody...