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...brokered by King Hussein of Jordan. The Jordanians deny the exchange, but the Israelis have gone out of their way not to deny it. Says Beyer: "Netanyahu may be trying to justify the Yassin release by sort of winking at the report, and allowing people to believe there was quid pro quo." And the agents, who are being held in the attempted assassination of another Hamas leader? "That's the strange thing," adds Beyer. "As far as anybody knows, they're still in jail in Jordan." In the Middle East, not even deals look like deals...
...skepticism toward government prosecutors, may wonder how much the public good was compromised. Says a Washington lawyer who has gone up against Smaltz: "Espy may have been foolish, stupid, negligent, even reckless. But to indict him for being good-time Charlie and not be able to show a quid pro quo" will hurt Smaltz's case. Smaltz did persuade a court to impose a $1.5 million fine on Sun-Diamond Growers for providing Espy with illegal gratuities. But his fraud case against Espy's brother was thrown out of court in March, and a federal judge in Washington ordered...
...Gore believes in extending the hand of government to nurture promising technologies. The case of Bill Haney and his toxic-waste washing machine shows the Vice President knows how to get a hand in return. In Washington it's often hard to line up the quid with the quo. But what this Massachusetts entrepreneur apparently got for the $82,000 he and his executives gave to Gore and the Democrats since 1994 is not hard to decipher: a fat contract from the Energy Department that kept being renewed over the objections of government scientists...
...string of coincidences and conjecture," says Haney's spokesman, adding that the company "categorically and in the strongest terms" denies any quid pro quo. Knight did not return telephone calls seeking comment. Grumbly, who left the government two months ago for a job with an environmental firm, dismissed as "baloney" any suggestion that Haney got favorable treatment because of Knight or contributions...
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