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Bushed. In content if not in tone, that single word best describes the President's performance during his interview with TIME last Wednesday morning. As the polls regularly probe the magnitude of his problem, the President demonstrated again that the problem is he. Seated behind a bare desk in the Oval Office, Bush appeared tense and frosty. A combative, feisty session was telegraphed, but the President seemed intellectually spent. Especially during a high-stakes election campaign, a politician on top of his game pursues his own agenda. Old grudges are stowed. Interviews are perceived as opportunities. A case is made...
...introduce evidence showing the police were predisposed to react with excessive force -- not just toward minorities but also toward anyone under arrest. In contrast to the earlier criminal case, moreover, federal prosecutors can examine the records of the defendants in other arrests, dig into their personnel files and even probe their conversations for evidence of prejudicial attitudes or a propensity toward brutality...
According to an American expert with close ties to Riyadh, Saudi King Fahd is "apoplectic" about the aggressive American probe. The Arabs, says this source, "are appalled and prefer to believe the B.C.C.I. investigation is a Zionist plot." Though the New York indictments differ little from ones handed down by the U.S. Justice Department, it has been New York's Morgenthau who has set the agenda. The Saudis claim that his father, former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, was instrumental in persuading President Harry Truman to recognize the new state of Israel. (The theory is shaky: ironically, it was a young...
...current probe of Saudi Abdul Raouf Khalil, investigators have complained that when Khalil was first sought by Federal Reserve examiners, the State Department claimed that he either didn't exist or couldn't be found. Knowing that Khalil was a high Saudi intelligence offical and the current liaison to the CIA the investigators advised the Riyadh embassy to "look for him down the hall in the CIA station chief's office." Khalil was quickly located and served with a subpoena...
...cooperates as promised, Adham will prove an interesting witness in the deepening B.C.C.I. probe. But that which is interesting to American prosecutors is setting teeth on edge in Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere...