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...most compelling connections yet between foreign cash and official favors in Washington. But hardly anyone noticed it. If the first week of the Senate campaign-finance hearings had devolved into political bombast, the second turned out to be a game of connect the dots. Nothing emerged to corroborate Fred Thompson's first-day claim that communist China had tried to "subvert" U.S. elections in 1996 with illegal campaign money, although Democrats confirmed that a classified briefing provided evidence to suggest China had at least tried to influence the congressional elections last year. But in its helter-skelter way, the committee...
...Thompson ended the week on a high note. "We've seen the influx of substantial amounts of money into the political process, much of it illegal, and much of the illegal part [is] of foreign origin," he told TIME. This week he will prod intelligence officials to make public more information about the mysterious Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections. And Democrats will get a chance to play prosecutor, describing the Republicans' own China connection: alleged money laundering by former G.O.P. chief Haley Barbour...
WASHINGTON: TIME's Mark Thompson reports that the Pentagon's new figure on the number of troops exposed to chemical agents during the Gulf War still fails to establish what caused some veterans to become ill. "The problem with these figures is that they do not establish a link, which continues to elude everybody. It's not so much the raw numbers that are important, but whether there is a cause and effect relationship. As of yet, we still don't know if one exists." If anything, Thompson adds, the Pentagon report, which increases the number of exposures from...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: He let Reno have John Huang. But Fred Thompson clearly wanted immunity for four Buddhist nuns who were at the infamous temple fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore. So on Wednesday, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee's first order of business was to give the Justice Department the brush-off. All nine Republicans and a handful of Democrats on the committee supported granting immunity to the nuns over the objections of Janet Reno, who claimed it would hamper her investigation. TIME's Viveca Novak doubts that the nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember...
Even as he raised his gavel to open the hearings, Thompson knew that the committee's Democrats had found a way to steal the show. For weeks the man at the center of the scandal, former D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, had refused to testify; so when Glenn disclosed in his opening statement that Huang might be willing to talk if he were granted some partial immunity, Republicans growled that it was "nothing more than an opening-day stunt." White House aides, who had been nervous that the retiring former astronaut might try to depart the Senate with a statesmanlike...