Word: probed
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...resolution is part of a continuing response to a probe into the circumstances surrounding his death led by prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, whose report on the topic was released...
When Novak's column naming Plame for the first time appeared, all hell broke loose at the CIA. The agency's lawyers launched an internal probe of the leak, and within months the Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation. Fitzgerald was appointed to run the case, and the hard-charging prosecutor began interviewing witnesses within weeks. That, according to Fitzgerald, is when Libby began to spin his web. In his interviews with the FBI and later in his testimony to the grand jury, Libby swore that he had first heard about Wilson's wife not from other senior officials...
...read I was a Republican hack. One day I read I was a Democratic hack. The only thing I did between those two nights was sleep." PATRICK FITZGERALD, special prosecutor leading the probe into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity...
...That bodes ill for the long-running effort to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons programs. If the meandering six-party talks resume as expected next month, the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia will once again probe the North's willingness to trade its nuclear arsenal for massive amounts of aid. But any such deal would necessitate an influx of more foreign experts?including weapons inspectors. If Pyongyang has decided reform and engagement with the outside world are too risky, the prospects for a settlement are bleak...
...Last week, Promuda, an ?lite organization of young professionals, urged Abdullah to fire Rafidah and to order a thorough probe into how and why a few individuals were awarded these highly lucrative permits. "The PM cannot act as though he is an innocent bystander," wrote Promuda chairman Don Rahim in an Oct. 16 e-mail to members. "The public is looking for leadership and decision." Other critics take an even stronger line, urging Abdullah to shake up the entire cabinet, which they argue is heavy with holdovers from the Mahathir...