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...different scandal. On Jan. 25, O'Keefe and three associates were arrested by the FBI for coordinating a plan in which two of the men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, entered the New Orleans office of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and posed as telephone repairmen in a ploy to install wiretaps. The accused are charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent to commit a felony. If convicted, they face up to 10 years in jail...
Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council, says that Putin's comments were likely a negotiating ploy and that Russia will probably raise its continuing concern about missile defense in later talks. "They are making clear that further reductions in offensive weapons cannot take place divorced from the issue of missile defense - a long-standing Russian position," he says...
...Party, Besson's very political existence depended not only on joining Sarkozy's cause, but hanging on to his coat-tails as high as they'd take him," says a former adviser to conservative politicians who requested anonymity. "No one else would dirty themselves with this nasty, divisive electoral ploy over national identity, which made it just the job for Besson. He's convinced the sky's his limit, so long as he does whatever Sarkozy orders." (See the top 10 political gaffes...
...undermining efforts to deal with Yemen's other troubles. Nor is it certain that Iran is actually involved in the conflict. "There just isn't any evidence," says Gary Sick, a Persian Gulf expert at Columbia University. He says that waving the Iran card is a useful propaganda ploy in the Arab Middle East. "Although they may have had some evidence of Iranian rhetorical support for the Houthis, I think they took advantage of that limited amount of evidence and blew it up into something bigger to, in effect, justify their own actions." (See 25 people who mattered...
...regional and local governments before a more general reform of those bodies. Sarkozy risks a similar insurgency over a justice-reform bill which will eliminate the position of independent investigating magistrate and place power in the hands of politically appointed state prosecutors. Read: "Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy...