Monday, November 24, 2008

catching up

11-23-08—Maybe it won’t be long before some excellent writer undertakes “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.”—NYT BK 13

11-22-08—New accusations have emerged during the appeal of the bribery conviction of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama that could buttress Democrats’ claims that the case against him was politically tainted....NYT A10

11-21-08—An internal investigation by the CIA has found that the agency withheld crucial information from federal investigators who spent years trying to determine whether CIA officers committed crimes related to the accidental drowning of a missionary plane in Peru in 2001. NYT A6

11-19-08—The ex-head of an EPA probe into BP pipeline spills in Alaska claims the DOJ prematurely shut down the investigation. WSJ, A1

--November 5, 1968. Nixon elected President.

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