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...disclosure forms Bassett filed when he was a House intelligence committee aide to Goss while the former Congressman was the panel's Republican chairman. Bassett was not working for the CIA at the time of the payment. Still, it may not look good for yet another of Goss's right-hand men to be associated with Wilkes - whom prosecutors allege, in Cunningham's guilty plea, provided more than $600,000 of the $2.4 million in bribes that landed Cunningham a more than eight-year federal prison sentence in March...
...rights campaigner and expert on central Asia, says Sarsenbayev was seen as a challenge to other potential contenders for the presidency. According to many Kazakh and Russian newspapers and websites, two of those contenders are within the President's own family. His daughter Dariga's clan includes her politically well-connected husband, First Deputy Foreign Minister Rakhat Aliyev. Her sister Dinara is married to Timur Kulibayev, the former deputy head of KazTransOil, the country's oil pipeline monopoly. A third ambitious clan outside the immediate family centers around Senate Speaker Nurtai Abykayev, the elder Nazarbayev's longtime right-hand...
...actually qualifications to be a Supreme Court Justice. The New York Times's Judith Miller learned that you cannot be both a journalist and a de facto member of the Bush Administration. Scooter Libby was informed that fibbing to a grand jury--even if you are Dick Cheney's right-hand man--is not, in the end, a good idea. Baseball players with necks the size of most people's thighs were shocked to discover that we were on to them. Saddam Hussein found himself in a court that he didn't control. Even the journalistic giant Bob Woodward realized...
...usual dinner party,” said one attendee, who asked not to be named. The reception was closed to the media. Massachusetts Hall, home to the president’s office and the central administration, turned out in droves for the event. Nearly all of Summers’ right-hand men and women attended, from Donella Rapier, the vice president for development, to Alan J. Stone, the vice president for government, community, and public affairs. Provost Steven E. Hyman was also present. Deans from each of Harvard’s schools attended the reception. Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard...
...removed Saddam Hussein from power, Libby and Wolfowitz drafted a paper that broached a policy of pre-emptive action. That paper foreshadowed Libby's hawkish position on Iraq a decade later. After George W. Bush's election in 2000, Cheney tapped the like-minded Libby to be his right-hand man. In the months before the Iraq war, Libby, Cheney and Wolfowitz formed the core of an influential group of neoconservatives that pushed President Bush to remove Saddam Hussein from office. Their ideas and their respect were-and are-mutual. "I'm a great fan of the Vice President," Libby...