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Target In CIA Internal Probe Kills Self A top CIA official recently questioned in an internal CIA probe involving a strangling incident at the agency and a series of anonymous letters protesting the subsequent promotion of the woman accused of choking a subordinate, was found dead Tuesday and his death has been ruled an apparent suicide. The body of Rick E. Yannuzzi, deputy national intelligence officer for strategic and nuclear programs, was found Tuesday in his Washington area house. The official cause of his death was asphyxiation and both the CIA and local officials ruled his demise as a probable ...

My workplace e-mail is down because of a virus e-mail with the subject line:Here You Have I checked on a couple of sites, and it hasn't been listed yet. Symantec is working on it.

Please use this thread to congratulate BOB BARR. Damn, I wish he were my Congressman. What committees do we think he'll get on now? CONGRESSMAN BARR, CAN YOU TAKE OVER MCCOLLUM'S SEAT ON THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE? WE NEEEEEEEEEED YOU THERE.

Flunking Electoral College By Al Kamen Wednesday, November 1, 2000 ; Page A31 Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Gore are certain that one of them is going to be president. They could be wrong. Try this scenario, as laid out by Washington lawyer Kyra Fischbeck, who specializes in federal election law matters for Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy: With the election as tight as it now appears, there is at least a possibility that the Electoral College will deadlock 269 to 269 when it votes on Dec. 18. If it does, the newly elected House of Representatives--not ...

Secret new evidence halts trial MYSTERY new evidence in the Lockerbie trial could have "the greatest conceivable effect" on the proceedings, a defence lawyer warned yesterday. The defence has been granted a week-long adjournment to give time for worldwide investigations triggered by the latest information. William Taylor QC, representing one of two Libyans charged with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, said that a further adjournment might be necessary because of the scale of the inquiries. Reasons for a dramatic halt to the Lockerbie trial remain shrouded in secrecy. It follows revelations by the ...

BLACK-MAGIC WOMAN By LAURA ITALIANO and MARIA MALAVE GRIM TOOLS OF THE TRADE: Dr. Charles Wetli, the chief medical examiner of Suffolk County, became an expert in the palo mayombe religion when he was a coroner in Miami, where the practice is not uncommon among Cuban-Americans. She was found floating, head up, in a knee-high jar of formaldehyde - a fully formed, perfectly preserved newborn girl with olive skin and a shock of straight, black hair. For now, she has no name, no mourners and no explanation. But Manhattan police and prosecutors are sifting for clues in a grotesque collection ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release April 7, 2000 April 6, 2000 MEMORANDUM FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATOR, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR, FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNDER SECRETARY ...

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By Bob Melvin, CNS Evening Editor July 31, 2000, 04:46 pm Belly-Dancing Assassins Target Iraqi Dissidents (CNSNews.com) - Is that a gun under your veil? Exiled Iraqi dissidents in European capitals believe the Baghdad regime has sent teams of female assassins, some disguised as belly dancers, to target them, the London Times reports. One such alleged agent has been spotted recently in an area of London with a large Arab population, the dissidents claim. She is known to be linked to Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, and to have established "belly dancing schools in the Middle East as a cover for ...

Ex-Energy official faces FBI probe By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES The FBI is investigating former Department of Energy counterintelligence chief Notra Trulock for possible disclosure of classified information, a Bureau spokesman said last night. FBI agents Friday seized a desktop computer used by Mr. Trulock, who was the first government official to disclose Chinese espionage efforts against U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories two years ago. "The FBI received information from other government agencies that classified information was subject to possible compromise," said FBI spokesman John Collingwood said when asked about the computer raid. "The FBI, working with the Department of ...

FBI Raids DOE Whistleblower's Home NewsMax.com Tuesday, July 18, 2000 FBI agents raided the home of Notra Trulock last Friday and seized his computer hard drive. Trulock, a former Department of Energy official who blew the whistle on the Clinton administration's lax security of its nuclear weapons secrets, became the target of the FBI after he penned an article for the National Review strongly critical of the Clinton administration and the FBI. The FBI has claimed that Trulock's computer may contain sensitive and classified data."Outrageous, just outrageous," Trulock told the National Review yesterday, noting his article for the magazine contained ...

E-MAIL EVIDENTIARY HEARING To Continue At 10:00 AM, Friday, JULY 14, 2000 Time: 10 a.m. Place: Federal Courthouse Third & Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC Courtroom: 21 Judge: The Honorable Royce C. Lamberth

ELIAN'S FLIGHT ARRANGER LINKED TO HILLARY Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published 6/30/00 The Cuban government paid for Elian Gonzalez's chartered flight to Havana through a Miami firm headed by a woman whose $22,000 donation to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign was returned when it was learned the woman had ties to a convicted drug smuggler. Vivian Mannerud Verble heads a Miami-based firm known as Airline Brokers Company Inc., which arranged all of the chartered flights to and from Havana involving Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, his grandmothers and other Cubans. Mrs. Verble has been linked to convicted drug trafficker ...

from INSIGHT 07/3-10/2000 Reno Contradicts U.S. Drug Report By Jamie Dettmer dettmer@insightmag.com U.S. drug warriors say Justice has undermined a key drug probe and fear that the department will prove weak in enforcing a new law aimed at squeezing narcotraffickers. The wording could not have been more direct and yet within weeks of the highly classified National Drug Intelligence Center, or NDIC, report being leaked to the media — first to Insight in March 1999 and then later to the Washington Post — the allegations it contained against Mexico’s powerful Hank family were being “discredited” by Attorney General Janet Reno. ...

Supreme Court's Souter Named in N.H. Scandal (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter has been linked to a decision at the heart of an influence-peddling scandal rocking the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said court documents suggest that in 1987 Souter, then on New Hampshire's highest court, urged the bench to speed up the appeal of a lawsuit involving a company owned by then-state Senate Majority Leader Ed Dupont. At the time Dupont controlled the salaries of state judges. The newspaper cited documents made public in an effort to clear embattled ...

Sunday June 18, 2000 5:43 PM EST'Suicide' of House Intelligence Staff Director Raises SuspicionWidely quoted in the press these days is Congressman Porter Goss, Republican of Florida and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Mr. Goss has had a thing or two to say about the lax security at Los Alamos and the possible theft of U.S. nuclear secrets. But recent disclosures about the woeful condition of U.S. national security and the purview of Goss' House Intelligence Committee should raise some questions about the death of John Millis. John Millis served as staff director of the House ...