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Freeh may hope the blue-ribbon panel he quickly named under the friendly hand of former FBI Director William Webster will save the agency from a nasty probe. The proud FBI hates the very idea of any outside control or oversight. After Ames' treachery was discovered, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich produced a scathing review of the bureau's inaction and confusion when a highly placed mole was first suspected. Freeh enlisted Webster, charges a former Justice Department official, "as a pre-emptive strike to another inspector general investigation...
Former FBI Director William H. Webster, 76, who ran the bureau under Carter and Reagan and the Central Intelligence Agency under Reagan and Bush, has consented to lend a little of his luster to FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is struggling to dispel the taint of the FBI's worst spy scandal. As head of an inquiry into the intelligence disaster, Webster says sympathetically that decades of experience have taught him one thing: "There is no absolutely fail-safe setup that will quickly and immediately identify a good man or woman who goes sour. So our focus will...
...particulars of a grove (Merriam-Webster: "a small wood without underbrush") are not immediate. How many trees are necessary, and of what kind; how old, how spreading? How must they give shade, and how look in the rain? We have no olive trees in Cambridge, and few citizens regularly in togas; why, then, should the University stand on ceremony as regards an actual tree...
...WEBSTER HUBBELL A tough call. Squeezed hard by Ken Starr but convicted of bilking Rose Law firm out of thousands. The right would have howled...
...well on rereading - should, in fact, be required reading for everyone in politics and the commentariat. It might reintroduce them to the bracing idea of moral independence, the idea of telling popularity, money and the media to go to hell. Kennedy studied the behavior of politicians (Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Robert A. Taft, and others) who took profoundly principled but unpopular stands, even at the risk of their own careers...