Word: protecters
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What the lawyers are saying is that the President must believe agents can protect his privacy as well as his life. Otherwise, the thinking goes, he might be tempted to distance himself from his guards whenever he wants to talk, or whatever, in private. The privilege has exceptions, the lawyers argue. Agents could be compelled to testify about whether they had witnessed a President committing a crime, such as taking a bribe. But a prosecutor wanting to know about, say, noncriminal caperings with an intern could be refused. "Proximity is the heart and soul of what we do," says Secret...
...injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says St. John's University professor John Barrett, an expert on the independent-counsel law. "Does the law need to build a protection to protect a President from behaving himself...
Army officers close to Hale's boss, Army Chief of Staff General Dennis Reimer, have been quick to speak up for the retired general. They acknowledge that they don't know for sure what occurred between him and Carpino. But their comments, designed in part to protect Reimer, the Army's top general, betray a willingness to disparage a female accuser. They suggest it was Carpino who was the harasser, the one "stalking" Hale. The general, they say, wanted to retire quickly to avoid dragging himself and the Army through the mud. "She thought she was going...
Carpino alleges that Hale forced her into a sexual relationship in early 1997 by telling her that her husband was involved in an adulterous affair of his own. She says Hale told her he would protect his deputy from a possible court-martial only if Carpino went to bed with him. "He controlled our employability, controlled where we lived and how we lived," Carpino says. "He controlled everything in our life." She says she felt blackmailed and complied. Most of their dozens of trysts over the next four months occurred during the day at his handsome government apartment. He would...
That's precisely the problem, says Linda Lacy, developer of an 18,000-acre project in Jefferson County, where wildlife agents set traps last summer seeking jumping mice. They caught no Preble's but did get 218 other mice and one rattlesnake. "It's ridiculous to protect the animal when no one can even seem to find it," says Lacy. Tom Taylor, a Colorado Springs builder, concurs: "What's the population count? Are they really more endangered now than they used to be? Who is to say?" Taylor had to spend four months redesigning a construction project after four Preble...