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...West Wing. One favor came in the form of a top-secret security clearance that Huang was awarded while still a private citizen. TIME has obtained an official memo waiving the need for Huang to undergo a full background check before receiving the clearance. "Huang is granted this waiver," says the one-page document signed by the personnel-security chief of the Commerce Department, "due to the critical need for his expertise in the new Administration [by] Secretary Brown...
...pretext interview tried to trick Jewell into waiving his Miranda rights (the right to remain silent, to have an attorney present during questioning and so on). Jewell's lawyers say that as part of the playacting for the training video, an agent asked Jewell to sign such a waiver. Martin has released what he claims is a transcript of the interrogation that quotes an agent as saying to Jewell, "See, what I'm going to do is, I'm going to go right through it like, uh, I'm going to walk up and introduce myself to you, basically, tell...
Before skating at Maximus, athletes need to first sift your way through a nine-page waiver form that absolves Maximum and its owners, Ram Hannan and Doug Moore, from responsibility for "death, illness or disease, or damage to myself...
They should never have taken off in the first place. Air Force regulations permit military planes carrying VIPs into East European airports like Dubrovnik's to land only by daylight and in clear weather. The Air Force's European Command had applied for a waiver of these regulations. Safety officers at the Pentagon denied the request, but the 86th Airlift Wing apparently disregarded the denial. On high-profile vip flights, comments an Air Force officer, "the pressure to accomplish the mission on time is unspoken but great." Last week's firings should set up a much needed counterpressure...
...early May, Wisconsin began petitioning the Department of Health and Human Services for a waiver allowing implementation of the Wisconsin Works welfare experiment, which would abolish all federal guarantees of cash assistance and instead require welfare recipients to work for their benefits. The White House has been following the state's experiment closely; this is the stuff Clinton likes to read in bed. Clinton also knew that the following Tuesday, Dole would be traveling to Wisconsin to deliver his big welfare address. Knowledge of the Republican choreography, a Clinton strategist says, "drove the timing of our response...