Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission would probe past abuses in Iran
...results of such sweeps-and the FBI now has 50 sting operations under way-are not necessarily that permanent. In the Abscam probe that rocked Congress the previous week, there was little new action except a probe of who had leaked the story. In the Brilab investigation that disclosed official corruption in Louisiana and Texas, high state officials paraded before a grand jury and professed their innocence of all wrongdoings...
...basic question is whether bar exams are a good measure of who is qualified to be a lawyer. The major criticism is that while they do test memory, they do not probe ability to do legal research, conduct interviews and argue in court. Bar officials in California, concerned about this and the low pass rates achieved by minorities there (about 30% for blacks and 40% for Hispanics, vs. 70% for whites), have considered conducting an experiment: having bar applicants take various innovative tests, including a quiz on a mock arbitration proceeding recorded on video tape. Whatever they are, new legal...
...inducing the politicians to take bribes. It was not the usual sting. The agency was not simply participating in ongoing criminal activity. To some degree, it set up the conditions for the crime. The bounteous Arab sheik was strictly the creation of the bureau. The targets of its probe were sometimes subjected to a pretty hard sell-never by the FBI, but by contacts who were anxious to set up deals with the high-spending sheik. When Middleman Joseph Silvestri first approached Congressman James Florio in his office on Capitol Hill, he was turned down. Silvestri then called Florio...
Another unsettling element is the extensive leakage of the facts of the case to the press even before the targets of the probe were told they were under investigation. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "This is not a press leak but a press hemorrhage." Former Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox believes that "little leaks are one thing. Systematically giving out information of this scale raises real worries about the sensitivity of the people engaged in the administration of justice." Burke Marshall, a Yale law professor who once served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, complained in the New York Times...