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Brock's central thesis is that Anita Hill misrepresented herself as a quiet woman, impelled by a sense of duty to keep an unworthy designate off the nation's highest court. She was instead, he claims, a rabid ideologue and the pawn of influential left-wing groups who felt that Clarence Thomas' conservatism rendered him unworthy of Thurgood Marshall's mantle...
...rules, like questionable business travel with his wife. But Sarah Munford, Sessions' personal assistant, was put on leave and escorted out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Thursday because of the more serious charge that she had exceeded her authority. Munford denied it, contending she was "an unfortunate pawn" in a power struggle. Sessions' lawyer says Justice was engaging in a campaign of leaks against his client. Alice Sessions complained to the San Antonio (Texas) Light that her husband "was waking up out of a stupor, realizing he's been...
...when he learned that on Sept. 30, the day before Drogoul's sentencing hearing ended, the CIA had discovered six more classified documents relevant to the case. By this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee leaned toward the same conclusion. Shoob thus allowed the Justice Department to cancel its plea-bargain agreement with Drogoul. But U.S. prosecutors still believe they were right. Says Brill: "((Drogoul)) had confessed to the crime over and over again...
...This case is the mother of all cover-ups," Cook thundered. "It is not the truth." Cook, echoing charges by Democrats and critics of the Administration's prewar support of Iraq, portrayed his client as a pawn, a bit player used by the Bush Administration to warm relations with Iraq, only to be discarded when hostilities broke out. Cook presented no evidence to support his theory, other than to claim that his client's confession was forced by government pressure. "It got to where he just couldn't swallow it anymore," the lawyer drawled...
...nine counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice, he now faces a retrial at the hands of special prosecutor Craig Gillen. Just as he did last time, Gillen can be expected to put the entire CIA on trial by charging that George was merely the pawn in an agency that had consistently shown contempt for Congress, for due process and ultimately for the American people...