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...Shannon: Not yet. And Cacheris says he will plead not guilty. The government decided to hold off on calling witnesses before a grand jury until they had Hanssen in custody - they worried that word might leak out that they were building a case against him. But now Hanssen's defense team agreed to waive the customary preliminary hearing, which means they'll get to see a lot more of the government's case against Hanssen and prepare using that information. And the government gets to skip the first hearing and work on gathering information against Hanssen...
...Jordan and the Palestinians--with the caveat that he would need to move freely throughout the region. Israel launched a "confidential initiative" to get the U.S. off Rich's back, according to the memo. Then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres met with Dennis Ross, Clinton's Middle East envoy, to plead Rich's case, but Ross was unconvinced. Five years later, of course, Prime Minister Ehud Barak vouched for Rich again--this time directly to Clinton, with better results...
...White House event featuring Barbra Streisand, Rich's ex-wife Denise takes Clinton aside to plead Rich's case. In recent years, Denise has contributed nearly $1 million to the Democratic Party and its candidates, $70,000 to Hillary's Senate campaign, $450,000 to the Clinton library and $10,000 to Clinton's legal defense fund...
Former CIA Director John Deutch just a day before the pardon agreed to plead guilty to improperly storing classified materials on his home computer...
...prehistoric as that ape-man. Life, after all, is a story. It provides us with an instinctive appetite for all the other stories we come upon or create, from the fairy tales at the beginning of our days to the obituary at the end. Children always plead, "Tell it to me again." Here are six people who do just that, in ways you never imagined...