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...saga of Richard Jewell, onetime Olympic hero turned bomber suspect reached its conclusion this week, as the FBI cleared him in their continuing investigation, pending further evidence. The news came 88 days after The Atlanta Journal fingered Jewell as the focus of the FBI's probe. Frenzied media hype followed the initial headlines. You remember the camera crews staked outside of the security guard's house, the sensational news headlines and the interviews with psychologists, who were kind enough to explain the "complex" that led Richard Jewell to endanger people's lives. And now, 88 days later, he has been...
...G.O.P. colleagues cast indignant scrutiny on the most ornate of the foreign-money controversies, in which donors connected with an Indonesian conglomerate gave large sums to the D.N.C. While no money-for-favors linkage was immediately apparent, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans called for a probe into the curious circumstances. Among them: Last year the White House sent a routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after the card was received, Hashim...
Mesa's critics include two Colorado Republicans, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Congressman Scott McInnis, who want Congress to launch its own probe of the airline. Both lawmakers are frequent flyers on United Express, one of six Mesa divisions that provide feeder service to USAir, United Airlines and America West. Campbell was incredulous last summer when the pilot on his flight had to crank down the landing gear manually after it became jammed on the approach to Denver...
...moment two floors below, a bipartisan group of Congressmen--two Democrats, two Republicans--was deciding there might be a pretty good case to be made against Gingrich. After weeks of partisan squabbling in Congress, the investigative subcommittee of the House ethics committee voted unanimously to expand its two-year probe of the Speaker. Soon after, the full 10-member committee seconded the decision. Of the four new charges they decided to pursue, the most serious one asks whether the Speaker gave investigators "accurate, reliable and complete information"--meaning, did he lie to them?--about the tangled links between his videotaped...
NEWT GINGRICH First a House ethics probe, now an IRS audit of his tax-favored college lecture class...