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...enemies he wanted: the greedy HMOs, the polluters, the tobacco and oil companies. If the demons seem real and the stakes are high and issues actually matter, Gore gets to fight on the ground where he is strongest, win back the Democrats who have wandered off, maybe even warrant a second look from the fickle soccer moms. If he's artful, he can do it without sounding too much like Huey Long--just wrap the New Democratic message in an old Democratic tarp. At least that's the strategy. Centrist Democrats who are desperately rooting for Gore are watching this...
...Further prosecution is not likely to result in a prosecutable case under applicable criminal law and standards for prosecution... I've concluded that there is no reasonable possibility that further investigation would produce evidence to warrant charges." And so forth. She even called Robert Conrad, the grumbly aide whose leak reignited this mess in July, "an excellent prosecutor" - twice...
...denied in accordance with department policy. Could it be that the policy is designed to protect the condemned men's health? It could simply be based on the judgment that a cigarette is a pleasure that should be denied a man who has committed crimes ugly enough to warrant execution. But then why allow the same man the pleasure of choosing his last meal, as opposed to simply giving him whatever the prison kitchen was serving that...
Legally, Carnivore can't be deployed without a court order, same as a telephone wiretap. Before it goes to a federal judge, agents must come up with compelling arguments that the evidence to be collected is crucial and can't be acquired any other way. Then their warrant application must be personally reviewed and signed by the attorney general or one of her top assistants. Civil libertarians fear agents will ignore these hurdles, in practice and range freely through the Internet, but FBI officials say any agent found to deviate from the rules will be charged with a federal felony...
...police arrested Sharpe at the nearby Pine View Lodge on a fugitive from justice warrant early Sunday morning, flushing him out of his room with pepper spray grenades thrown through his window...