Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few days The Boston Globe, along with several other leading papers, have put the Dole campaign's "Aqua-Leisure" scandal on the front page. According to diligent reporters, the chair of "Aqua-Leisure Inc." circumvented federal campaign finance restrictions on corporate donations by distributing $40,000 in cash to employees, and then having each of them donate $1,000 apiece to Dole. As the Federal Election Commission (FEC) starts to investigate, whispers of "Dole-gate" stir the press corps...
Deutch has been DCI for only one year, but rebuilding a CIA crippled by scandal and low morale isn't enough to satisfy his ambitions. His goal is to consolidate personal control over Washington's sprawling intelligence community, which consists of no fewer than 28 separate and often feuding organizations. Last week the President and the Senate gave him a giant boost toward that end. Indeed, Deutch is in the midst of one of the most impressive power grabs ever seen in Washington. At one point during last week's hearing, intelligence chairman Arlen Specter said the committee was "trying...
When Deutch fired two senior officers in connection with the Guatemala scandal last year, the ranks grumbled that such punishment for old operations now deemed politically incorrect would chill risk taking in the future. (Indeed, many senior officers buy $1 million insurance policies in case the agency abandons them to lawsuits.) The agency "still needs James Bonds," says a House Intelligence Committee member, Congressman Bill Richardson. "[It needs] spies who do the dirty work that needs to be done." The CIA's deputy director for clandestine operations, David Cohen, insists in an exclusive interview with TIME that his spies...
...simple answer is that a scandal gestating as long as Whitewater is bound to generate fresh subscandals to feed the ever growing appetite for drama. So convoluted is the scandal business that ethicsmeister Starr has hired his own ethics counselor, Sam Dash, which has in turn created its own spin-off controversy. The price for Dash's lingering aura of rectitude from his days as Watergate counsel--$3,200 weekly for eight hours of work--is almost as inflated as the $42,550 for 12 of Jackie O.'s ashtrays. Under questioning, Dash conceded that some of Starr's activities...
...Union on May 14th. He will give an as yet unspecified speech to the Union and then take questions from students. TIME's Barry Hillenbrand reports that the Oxford Union notes that Richard Nixon also made his first public appearance at the Union after his resignation following the Watergate scandal. The Oxford Union was founded in 1823 and ranks among the world's foremost debating societies. World leaders, presidents, scientists and intellectuals have been invited throughout the Union's history to address the students and engage them in challenging debate. Perhaps young British students in the hallowed halls of academia...