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...Woodward, half of the reporting team that broke the Watergate scandal which toppled the Nixon administration, stopped in Cambridge last night to answer questions about his book, “State of Denial,” the third in his investigative series on the Bush administration. The Harvard Book Store sponsored the sold-out event, held at First Parish Church, and the Cantabrigian crowd applauded Woodward’s critiques of the White House’s management of the Iraq war. Using previously undisclosed memoranda and an unprecedented access to Bush and high-ranking members of his administration, Woodward?...
...immediate aftermath of the revelations of the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal, outraged legislators on Capitol Hill promised to do something about the evils of pretexting - the shady practice of impersonating someone to obtain that individual's personal information that was at the center of the company's efforts to eavesdrop on journalists and board members. For the moment, however, it appears that all the tough talk, as is so often the case in Washington, will remain just talk. This year states have passed laws of varying strength banning the practice - California recently became the 15th one, although the bill...
...Pork Trumps Scandal in West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan was supposed to be one ethically challenged incumbent that Republicans could beat. But so far, voters don't seem to agree
...also facing opposition from within his own party: Democrats hope to blast their way to a majority this fall by tagging Republicans as cultivators of a "culture of corruption" with some high-profile cases, including former representatives Tom DeLay of Texas, Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California and sex-scandal plagued Mark Foley of Florida to use as fodder. Jefferson could be the Dems' Achilles' heel in this morality play, and it's no secret that the party leadership, who stripped him of his influential seat on the House Ways and Means Committee, want...
...elected officials that supported me during the mayor's race, and I told him that if he needed my support, I would reciprocate," Nagin said. The mayor insisted that Jefferson's experience and relationships in Congress would make him effective, even as the clouds of scandal grow darker. "I think that he will still be effective - more effective than somebody who's a rookie, absolutely," he said, adding, "Until he's indicted, I think we ought to presume he's innocent until proven guilty...