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...same day the committee offered its report, Gingrich issued a letter. Though he denied any intent to mislead the members, he admitted that "inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee" over his signature. He claimed to be "naive" about the tax laws. All of that gave him reasonable hope of getting away with just a reprimand, the lightest penalty, from the committee. While even that would be unprecedented for a House Speaker, it would fall short of censure, which would require Gingrich to step down...
Both the report and Gingrich's letter of admission were issued on the Saturday before Christmas, when most Americans were more caught up in shopping than in the weekend papers. In the end, however, too much was at stake for Gingrich's fate to be an easy call. Too many G.O.P. House members had fresh memories of how his unpopularity complicated their re-election campaigns last November. They were in no mood to be asked to put their reputations at further risk by giving him their unqualified support...
Even as Gingrich was dialing for votes, the letter came from Goss and Schiff, the G.O.P. members of the ethics subcommittee. For Republicans looking for a life preserver, it was just that. But the note, as well as press reports that the subcommittee had already decided on a reprimand for Gingrich, led investigator Cole to issue an angry statement reminding everyone that "the ethics rules do not permit public comment on the work of the committee until we are convened in an open session." All the same, Schiff insists he did nothing improper. "The letter may be unusual...
...officials from the Washington police department and the FBI uncovered four additional envelopes addressed to the offices of Al Hayat, the Arabic-language newspaper Sandarusi works for. The second was found Thursday morning among unopened letters that had been delivered the previous Tuesday; the third and fourth arrived at 3 p.m. with the afternoon post; and the fifth was plucked from a regional mail center before it was sent on. All five closely resembled three identical letter bombs, also postmarked from Alexandria, addressed separately to "parole officer" at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Late last week U.S. intelligence officials...
Within hours of the discovery of the first letter bombs, the CIA and the State Department began firing off cables to their overseas posts asking for leads. One difficulty investigators face in tracing suspicious links is that there seem to be so many. Among their top priorities, however, is looking into one of Leavenworth's 1,867 inmates: Mohammed Salameh, who is serving a life sentence for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Salameh is also linked to Sheik Omar Abdel...