Venal Handlers and a (Sort of) Innocent Politician
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John Sayles cooks up a conspiracy of politicians, land developers and big corporations in this earnest, drab indictment of power and corruption in the American West.
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A review of Senator Charles E. Schumer's first term reveals not an idle backbencher, but a wily pragmatist who has been adept at the inside game.
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Inured to bad boys in politics, this tolerant city on Tuesday was quick to absolve the state's latest scandal-tainted politician, Sen. David Vitter, a Republican who admitted to being involved in an alleged prostitution ring.
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Â· Ex-president questioned as immunity comes to endÂ· Party officials said to have been on Paris city payroll
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An anti-prostitution activist known for videotaping prostitutes and their customers and giving the footage to police and television shows now faces accusations that he set up some of the sexual encounters so he could capture them on camera.
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Of pimps, government officials and what makes a translator laugh.
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Perhaps perspective can be gained from the case of another controversial historical figure.
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Sometimes in politics, the most damaging accusations come from your own staff.
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Some candidates take âfull disclosureâ too seriously.
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Okay, wonks: Think you know how the political game works?
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Indictments and corruption scandals can mean one member of Congress's demise but become another's bounty, with key vacancies created on prized committees when ethics probes force lawmakers to step aside.
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IT was an act of alleged bastardry that evolved into a political masterstroke. It combined the guile - some might say rat cunning - of senator George Brandis and Prime Minister John Howard.
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By SCOTT MacKAY  Journal Staff Writer  Republican Lincoln D. Chafee "is a really nice guy. . . . The problem is he votes for people who aren't nice guys," says California Democrat Barbara Boxer.   * * *   PROVIDENCE  -   Sen.
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By Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 8--The cold embrace of handcuffs would serve as a powerful attention-getter for most wrongdoers.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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The agency tries to protect its operatives from betrayal by its political overlords. But in doing so, it may instead have imperiled them
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An MP allegedly bugged by police while meeting a constituent in prison says he wants to know the truth.