Word: probe
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...under a media glare that can undo the wealthiest, worldliest movie stars. The Jai Ho Trust has asked the Indian media to curtail their attention in the future, "to limit further unnecessary exploitation of her rights and interests." The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has ordered a probe by the Mumbai police of the alleged trafficking, but is also concerned about the media pile-on that followed the report. "We already have had a consultation with them [the Indian media] in January and we plan to hold workshops throughout this year to sensitize the media about child rights...
Read TIME's 2006 exclusive on the federal probe into Harman's dealings with AIPAC See Who's Who in Obama's White House
...frets far more, she claimed, about whether government agencies are listening to the conversations of private citizens.(Read "Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC...
...election that he prefers "looking forward and not backwards,' a view he repeated on Tuesday. But in addition to giving a green light to Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the lawyers involved, Obama said for the first time that he could support a bipartisan commission that would probe how government employees ended up carrying out what some view as government-approved torture. (Read "Waterboarding: A Mental and Physical Trauma...
...According to the CQ story, Justice Department officials recommended launching a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into Harman but were held back by then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who allegedly argued to then CIA Director Porter Goss and then Director of National Intelligence Michael Hayden that Gonzales needed Harman's support as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee to defend President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretaps...