Word: passport
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SOMEONE TOLD ELIZABETH TAMPOSI TO SEARCH through Bill Clinton's passport files last fall. That at least will be the working hypothesis of the special prosecutor, named at the urging of Attorney General William Barr, to investigate lingering questions about a campaign caper that threatens to involve officials in the outgoing Bush White House. Chief of staff James Baker and his aides insist they didn't. But their statements contain troubling omissions and inconsistencies. Other evidence suggests that top Bush aides were desperate to confirm -- and publicize -- a rumor (false as it turned out) that the youthful Clinton had taken...
...have admitted they knew of the searches as they were occurring and did nothing to stop them. DiGenova must determine whether the Bush staff members in fact lied to State Department Inspector General Sherman Funk or violated Clinton's privacy with leaks. Regardless of the outcome, the tawdry passport affair will cloud Bush's last days, and perhaps someone's future...
...life with his wife in North London but counts among his close friends, novelist and bon vivant Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and the gregarious Jay McInerney. He admits to being a part of the chattering classes as the London literary-intelligentsia is known. His Oxbridge credentials serve as his passport to this class. He attended Magdalen College, Oxford where he says he was terribly bored...
...conduct of Reagan campaign chairman and later CIA Director William Casey verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence as Casey's passport or hundreds of hours of vital FBI surveillance tapes. Perhaps a parallel House investigation expected next year will be more enlightening...
However, the scholar did not qualify for a passport until April 1992, after the Deng Xiaoping regime's decision to increase emigration of influential dissidents...