Word: probed
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...with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent counsel probe, is now ensconced in the White House counsel's office. And Tim Griffin, a former Burton investigator, has been operating in a sort of free-floating capacity in DOJ's criminal division since long before Chertoff joined...
...King and nine other members of the royal family is the question that continues to confuse and convulse the landlocked country at the foot of Mount Everest more than a week after the gruesome, predinner slaughter at the King's Narahiti royal palace compound in Kathmandu. An official probe being worked on over the weekend to reach a verdict will probably put the blame on an allegedly intoxicated and unhinged Crown Prince Dipendra, who was found fatally wounded near the scene of the massacre and named King while on life support, expiring at a military hospital after...
Democrat Carl Levin plans to pick apart W.'s missile-defense scheme from his new perch atop the Armed Services Committee, and to probe oil-company price gouging as head of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Patrick Leahy will slow down the schedule for considering judicial nominees to give Democrats more time to stockpile ammunition against conservative ones. Next week Daschle plans to bring up a patient's bill of rights measure that Kennedy has sponsored with Senators John Edwards and John McCain. Bush has threatened to veto it. Says Joe Biden, who heads the Foreign Relations Committee: "Bush...
...Bethesda, Md. South Boston-born and--bred, Moakley often fought for federal funds on behalf of his hometown, cleaning up Boston Harbor and rerouting a major city highway. In 1989 he headed an investigation into the deaths of six Jesuit priests and their companions in El Salvador, a probe that helped end U.S. military aid to that country...
...White's office has been working at a rapid clip on the pardons investigation as well as the probe of New Jersey Sen. Robert Torricelli. In the Marc Rich portion of the pardons inquiry, former White House counsel and Rich lobbyist Jack Quinn testified before the grand jury a total of four times - and none of the occasions were pleasant. Two Texans who claim they were defrauded by Roger Clinton, the former president's brother, are scheduled to testify in June. In the Torricelli probe, prosecutors are trying to amass enough physical and other evidence to overcome the fact that...