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Scrapbook Spin Doctor, Heal Thyself A couple of months ago, top Pentagon flack Victoria Clarke embarrassed the San Francisco Chronicle by sending a letter to the editor with quotations from an...
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...And if you hear anything, it's probably the sound of us not holding our breath...
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...police are responsible for exactly zero breaks in the case...
...Clarke, as before, helpfully provides the transcript...
...We'll let you know if we hear anything...
...We wish you Godspeed, Chief...
...Committee Democrats are now engaged in an effort to find something, anything, on Estrada...
...Or almost nothing...
...On the other hand, it's time the administration started calling a few of Leahy's bluffs...
...After a year-long investigation of the department in 2000, the Post reported that D.C...
...The problem, to the extent that it is not merely personal, is that Bender is a dyed-in-the-wool left-liberal, and Estrada is not...
...Court of Appeals for the D.C...
...For those keeping track at home, it should be noted that over a year has passed since Levy's disappearance, and yet the D.C...
...police rake revenue, The Scrapbook is skeptical that they'll be able to find Levy's killer...
...It is on the basis of Bender's misgivings that committee Democrats claim to be stalling...
...In its May 23 editorial 'Untimely Warnings,'" wrote Clarke, "The Post suggested that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld characterized as inevitable that there would be terrorists armed with nuclear bombs or other weapons of mass destruction...
...Still, despite the blinding efficiency with which D.C...
...Of cases that had been closed "administratively" without arrests being made, over one-fourth of the jackets that the Post examined contained no paperwork explaining why they'd been closed...
...Last week Clarke sent a similarly huffy letter to the Washington Post, which the Post dutifully published at the top of its May 27 editorial page...
...Last year, they botched the high-profile murder investigation of a Gallaudet University student, failing to note that the victim's wallet was missing and that a suspect had used the deceased's debit card on the day of his death...
...Keystone Kops Last Tuesday, there was a major advance in the Chandra Levy investigation, or rather, what could only pass for a major advance when the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department is spearheading the investigation...
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...Any first-year law student would know that there's no way such stuff—protected by attorney-client privilege—can be released...
...Since Bender has not been more specific than that he doesn't like Estrada's "temperament," his charges have failed to convince even the liberal policy establishment that could be expected to pronounce against Estrada...
...This hasn't stopped D.C...
...She adds, portentously: "Given the seriousness of the topic, we should all strive to be as precise and accurate as possible...
...medical examiner announced that he was ruling her death a "homicide...
...After all, this is a police department that actually lost 7 percent of its own police cars, as Christopher Hitchens reported a few years ago in a piece aptly titled "District of Contempt...
...Nothing...
...They're very good at separating citizens from their money...
...Circuit is in trouble—and for no particular reason...
...We're going to work this case," insisted Chief Ramsey on the Today show, "I don't care if it takes 10 years, but we will solve it...
...Police Chief Charles Ramsey from insisting, "We are one of the best police agencies in the world and we will solve this case, I guarantee you that...
...What did he say...
...For over the last several years, the Washington Post has voluminously documented what a farce D.C...
...Maybe they speak a different language at the Pentagon, but we've read this forwards and backwards, and as far as we can tell, Clarke has managed only to demonstrate that the Post editorial page characterized her boss's testimony with punctilious exactitude...
...Scrapbook Spin Doctor, Heal Thyself A couple of months ago, top Pentagon flack Victoria Clarke embarrassed the San Francisco Chronicle by sending a letter to the editor with quotations from an audiotape of Paul Wol-fowitz's interview with the paper and then pointing out that a critical editorial had misquoted the deputy defense secretary...
...police officers had been colluding with tow companies to tow legally parked cars—some of which had even been parked in neighboring Maryland—concealing them on impound lots, then gouging owners for steep storage fees if they were able to locate their cars at all...
...police operations have become...
...Developing a record" is exactly what Democrats have failed to do...
...While the reemergence of the Chandra story has allowed Ramsey to appear frequently on television to talk about how he can't talk about how the investigation is proceeding, he doesn't seem even slightly embarrassed that Levy's body wasn't discovered by his officers, who purportedly combed every inch of Rock Creek Park over nine days last summer, but by a man out walking his dog, looking for turtles...
...Leahy—inadvertently revealing the shallowness of his civil libertarian prin-ciples—recently wrote a letter to Estrada asking for copies of all internal memos he wrote at Gibson...
...Has that success gone to her head...
...Quoth Rumsfeld: "In fact facing the facts, we have to recognize that terrorist networks have relationships with terrorist states that have weapons of mass destruction, and that they inevitably are going to get their hands on them...
...Leahy's move looks like a gambit designed to lure the present solicitor-general, former Gibson partner Ted Olsen, to assert that privilege on Estrada's behalf...
...What does Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy, who's been blocking Estrada's nomination for almost a year now, have on him...
...They have called all the associates at his law firm, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher...
...inspector general's report revealed that D.C...
...One lone leftist, Paul Bender, former political deputy of the solicitor general's office and now at Arizona State law school, once worked with Estrada and says he doesn't have a "judicial temperament...
...Leahy on a Bender President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to the U.S...
...our ideal candidate is someone with excellent design sense and strong production skills...
...Which is not to say that the department isn't good at some things...
...The American Bar Association's review panel voted unanimously that Estrada was "well qualified" for the post, after Bender first aired his charges...
...It was Bender who, in 1993, landed the Clinton administration in political hot water—and subjected it to a unanimous Senate rebuke—by aggressive interpretations that would have liberalized child-pornography laws...
...The suspect went on to kill a second victim...
...Indeed...
...He did not say that...
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...Last year, a D.C...
...The president of the liberal Alliance for Justice, Nan Aron, told the Legal Times: "There is a dearth of information about Estrada's record, which places a responsibility on the part of senators to develop a record at his hearing...
...But they are trying to embroil his nomination in controversy by other means...
...It's long, so let's cut to the good part...
...Likewise, D.C.'s three-year-old red light camera program and nine-month-old photo radar program have netted $16.4 million and $12.2 million for the city, respectively...
...If it seems we're being unnecessarily harsh, you must be from out of town...
...police had closed only one-third of the homicides that occurred in 1999, a problem that may have been exacerbated by the loss of hundreds of homicide case files...
...Clinton honcho (and Gore recount maestro) Ron Klain has written a letter to Leahy vouching for Estrada...
...Huh...
...No one in the White House ought to be suckered this way...
...Nearly a week after Levy's skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park, the D.C...
Vol. 7 • June 2002 • No. 38
