Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although that suspicion was not new, Attorney General Janet Reno had decided two months ago that there was not enough evidence against Sheik Abdel Rahman. When New York politicians angrily protested against letting him walk around free, the best Reno and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White could think of was to arrest him on a charge of violating immigration laws. Federal authorities say no startling piece of new evidence or major new witness knitted their case together. Rather, they assert, good police work did it: the sifting and analysis of many bits of information gradually filled out a picture...
...Pocket Books), Ronald Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure that the replacement odometer's mileage read exactly the same as that of the real car. Meanwhile, the KGB car's odometer was temporarily removed to keep it from registering miles the Soviet would...
...plaintive note of frustration and doubt, the ripped-up pieces of paper found at the bottom of his briefcase after he killed himself, was released last week. His note acknowledged mistakes born of innocence and inexperience. But it also contained the very innuendo and suspicion that he so deplored finding all around him in his short residence in Washington. In his view, the FBI, the Republicans and the editors of the Wall Street Journal had all "lied." Harsh words from an innocent. A lawyer knows that there rarely is an absolute truth...
While driving his quarry to the chop shop, Wills kept a red plaid scarf -- his trademark -- wrapped tightly around the steering column to hide the damage and avoid suspicion. He used the same red material to block the warehouse's windows and keep out prying eyes. A stern taskmaster, he forbade drug use by employees and demanded that they keep the garage immaculate. Oil spills were mopped instantly, while car parts were piled like groceries -- in perfect stacks. Ever wily, he split his operation into distinct divisions: thieves and choppers. No one but Wills knew the complete workings...
Boykin said, though, that he is watchful of public opinion--but in terms of understanding it, not courting it. "There's a high level of suspicion out there about government in general," he said. "Every issue, no matter how minuscule, has the tendency to take on larger proportions than necessary if a reporter senses some hidden controversy...