Word: washingtonization
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...investigations, and both of whose cases ended in mistrials earlier this year. Though the cases were different -- McDougal was accused of keeping mum about the Clintons? Arkansas business dealings and Steele was accused of lying about the Kathleen Willey case -- "both made Starr appear to be overzealous," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "McDougal made him look that way for being prosecuted over and over, and Steele for being pursued even though she was such a peripheral figure...
...comparing it with the Rosenbergs, some people are calling this nuclear espionage's Richard Jewell case -- asking why, if Wen Ho Lee is so bad, we don't have enough to arrest the guy." Months of leaks from the Cox committee's classified report alleging nuclear negligence have prepared Washington to expect a damning indictment of the Clinton administration's national security record, and anything less may be an anticlimax...
...shows like Fox's "COPS" -- you know, a bunch of burly law-enforcement types burst in a house in some low-rent neighborhood followed by a film crew. Well, don't expect to see any more such programs. In two unanimous rulings Monday relating to such coverage by the Washington Post and the Cable News Network, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches "for police to bring members of the media or other third parties into a home during the execution" of a search or arrest warrant, if allowing...
...court decided that publishing or broadcasting pictures of people in their own homes without their consent is a serious invasion of privacy," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. The problem is compounded by the fact that "some of the people caught on film may not even be accused of a crime," she adds. A subsequent case is likely to decide whether the media itself can be sued for such activity, though issues posed by the First Amendment right of free speech could result in a different outcome for journalists...
...point that they were constantly leaking damaging information to the media." Boutros-Ghali's attack, though, points to a shift in the Clinton administration away from its initial emphasis on building consensus in multilateral forums such as the U.N. "Instead of trying to win international support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," says Dowell. "That has also led to a problem where the State Department tends to regard the U.N. secretary general as simply another tool to implement U.S. policy." To wit, Albright spokesman James Rubin's comment...