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Look closely during upcoming Hill hearings into the U.S. Attorneys scandal, and there, whispering in Senator Chuck Schumer's ear, you'll see the person who has quietly powered the Senate's expanding investigation. Preet Bharara, Schumer's chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee, prosecuted the Colombo and Gambino crime families as an assistant U.S. Attorney before Schumer hired him in January 2005. Early this year, he began picking up complaints about the Bush Administration's firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys from sources in the Justice Department and suggested Schumer hold hearings. Now he's the point...
...Cronje scandal prompted the International Cricket Council to set up an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to go after illegal bookmakers. But rumors of match fixing linger. Former Pakistani fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz believes that South Asia's bookmaking Mafia still manipulates results and that a bookie is probably behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian...
Hagel has no realistic shot at the G.O.P. nomination, but the third-party group Unity08 has expressed interest in him, and he's not ruling it out. Bush boasts of his consistency, but look what it has gotten him: a Democratic Congress, a 33% approval rating and a scandal-plagued end to his presidency. Hagel's hopes hinge on the notion that voters may value idiosyncrasy over ideology...
...then there's the burgeoning scandal stemming from the Justice Department's dismissal last year of eight U.S. attorneys. Forty-eight percent of respondents say the federal prosecutors were fired because they "refused to be pressured by politics," compared to just 22% who believe they were dismissed "for proper reasons." By a 55%-33% margin, Americans believe Bush is refusing to allow top aide Karl Rove and other White House aides to testify under oath "because he's trying to cover up the reasons for the firings," not because he "wants to preserve the Constitution's separation of powers...
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' future hangs in the balance as his recently-resigned Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson sits down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at 10 a.m. Thursday morning in the Hart Office Building. Sampson is the man at the center of the U.S. attorney scandal, the one person who, more than any other, can answer why the eight prosecutors were fired, whether there was any improper political influence from the White House over the process, and just how involved Gonzales was in the whole affair. Gonzales has claimed only passing knowledge of the firings; a slip...