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This is how prosecutors talk, in fluent hyperbole. In their mind, the trial has already begun, and a press conference is an early chance to sway potential jurors and raise their own profile. But it's also how candidates for President talk: 9/11 Mayor Rudy Giuliani cited the J.F.K. plot as evidence that Democrats can't be trusted to keep us safe. "The Democrats want to put us in reverse to the 1990s," charged Giuliani (a former prosecutor, not coincidentally). "It's not a bumper sticker. It is a real...
...Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 has been an active figure in local politics since his senior year of college, when he participated in a University Hall sit-in against Harvard’s Angolan investments. As a Cambridge city councillor since 1989, and with his third term as America’s first openly gay black mayor coming to a close, Reeves has established himself as a Cambridge icon...
...However, the Cambridge Chronicle highlighted the measure later in the week with a story that accused the mayor of “blowing” through his travel budget and asking for even more money. After the paper filed a Freedom of Information Act request for details of Reeves’ travel costs, Reeves appointed John Clifford, an ex-Marine, union organizer, and political operative for the mayor, as his spokesman—a highly unconventional move given the council’s general openness to the public...
...Following his appointment, Clifford orchestrated several efforts to defend the mayor’s reputation. He published an editorial in the Chronicle on January 3, defending Reeves’ actions and saying, “we should be proud of the mayor.” In the following weeks, Reeves’ office sent the Chronicle a spreadsheet of his credit card expenses from the latter half of 2006, which showed that Reeves charged the city with an average of $41.44 for each of his meals...
...Mayor Reeves and John Clifford seem to think that this whole story came from Robert Winters’ Web site,” he says. “It wasn’t that we got some kind of tip from Robert Winters...