Word: shannon
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...story to the Dallas paper, he heard that the Texas Rangers had taken a statement from an FBI employee saying that military rounds had indeed been deployed. Now retired, Coulson (whose book No Heroes: Inside the FBI's Secret Counter-Terror Force was co-authored by TIME's Elaine Shannon) made inquiries through his network of contacts. Says he: "I was made aware of one photograph that depicted one of these devices in a puddle of water" after it had been used. "I also learned that a news crew had videotaped the incident and that it had occurred...
...Reported by Elaine Shannon, Sally Donnelly, Viveca Novak and Mark Thompson/Washington and Hilary Hylton/Austin
...Elaine Shannon and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...conflagration, says Coulson ?- they were fired hours before the blaze started and couldn?t have been responsible. Guess what? Admission/denials like that don?t satisfy anyone (just ask George W. Bush), and the Waco conspiracy-theory factory, long dormant, was up and running again. TIME Justice correspondent Elaine Shannon says she has no reason to believe that the new version, in which the feds shot two pyrotechnic devices that bounced away harmlessly hours before the blaze started, is false. But for skeptics, the big question ?- why, after six years, are we just now hearing about this? ?- is irresistible...
...case hit the papers at a time when the Cox committee was scouring the DOE?s shoddy security record and screaming for Asian heads. Not a good time for a Taiwan-born scientist to have broken so serious a rule. But Bob Vrooman?s heart isn?t bleeding, says Shannon ?- this outburst is more about covering Vrooman?s rear than saving Lee?s. "He was head of counterintelligence at a time when security at DOE was very sloppily run, and for him to say there were no significant problems is self-serving," she says. "Does Bill Richardson believe that...