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...damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber," says a bureau veteran. "They put the wrong people to investigate it, and they didn't give it sufficient oversight from headquarters...
...Sydney is enclosed by virgin bush. Nobody who saw the fires of January 1994 will forget the fierce orange glow of the night sky, all roads out of the city closed where they crossed the blazing forests, houses claimed by flames racing down the fingers of vegetation that probe the city's suburbs. To the west, the national parkland of the Blue Mountains, named for the eucalyptus oils that evaporate from the gum trees and tint the air, is a 10,000-sq.-km wilderness of heavily wooded gullies and forbidding cliffs, home to well over a thousand species...
...Sept. 1 Venezuela launches a criminal probe into an alleged cover-up by both companies
...surprise to independent counsel ROBERT RAY that his decision to convene a new grand jury in the MONICA LEWINSKY case stirred controversy as it leaked out last week. KENNETH STARR's successor had previously had a private lesson in just how polarizing the sex-and-cover-up probe remains 19 months after BILL CLINTON was acquitted of impeachment charges. Legal sources tell TIME that Ray had trouble finding 23 grand jurors who could objectively review evidence of criminal conduct by the President. African Americans, among Clinton's biggest fans, were most reluctant to serve on the Washington panel, said...
...long after Ray took over last October, he made clear that the Lewinsky probe was open and might result in an indictment of Clinton after he leaves office in January 2001. Ray hired six new prosecutors and other lawyers and spent $3.5 million over the past six months. Clinton, in turn, has grown more strident, decrying the investigation as a political witch hunt. According to legal experts, Ray's decision to convene a grand jury is not a harbinger of indictment. The Lewinsky panel expired a year ago, leaving Ray little choice but to impanel...