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...Newt Gingrich are so busy renouncing McBane on Fox News that our folks can’t get any airtime. Dick, you got any plans for reuniting the gang?” “Well, I was creeping around the old CIA storehouse like always, looking for wiretap microphones. (My office ran out, and I suspect the pool guy at the Wyoming house has been inviting Soviet apparatchiks over to parties when I’m away.) At any rate, I found a few leftover exploding cigars—might be time to have a little reunion...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From Republican Headquarters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...With its orange walls and rustic interior, the small pub in the former working-class district of Lichtenberg may look like most other bars in the neighborhood, but where other establishments might sport a deer head, Zur Firma has a surveillance camera. Other appointments include old wiretap devices and what appears to be a 1970s interrogation room. And then there's the venue's name, which translates as "The Firm," a colloquial name for the Stasi used in the old East Germany. And also its slogan: "Come to our place - or we'll come to yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Glass to East Germany | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...Independent in 2006 revolutionized his political outlook. "Let's face it," he says, "the fact that I was elected an Independent liberated me.'" Liberation first manifested itself on legislative issues, like setting a time line to withdraw troops from Iraq and allowing the Bush Administration to wiretap without warrants, where he flexed the fact that he was beholden to no party. It became unmistakable as the 2008 race for the White House took shape and Lieberman openly endorsed McCain, his best friend in the Senate. "I'm going to do everything in my ability to do what I feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Democrat Crosses Party Lines | 6/22/2008 | See Source »

...challenging scene for you as an actor in the show?JTF: There were a lot of challenging scenes, for different reasons. At the end of Season 3, I get interrogated after shooting another cop by accident—that was an intense and emotional acting challenge. Also, when the wiretap picks up, it’s very tense and complicated. So sometimes it was a challenge for us actors to just keep track of the story. The board that we set up with the names of drug dealers on it as the season progresses, it’s like...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Wire' Actor Talks T.V. | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...site. “Big deal. Married man goes to prostitute. In Europe, this wouldn’t even make the back pages of the newspaper,” Dershowitz said. Spitzer served as New York State attorney general for eight years and was elected governor in 2007. A wiretap caught Spitzer in Washington, D.C. negotiating a meeting with a “model” named Kristen, an employee of the Emperors Club VIP, an “international prostitution and money-laundering ring,” according to law enforcement authorities. Ironically, in 2004 Spitzer announced the arrest...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Prof Reacts to Spitzer Struggles | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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