Phew. They really need to buy some new rugs to keep sweeping all that under.

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NBC NEWS


Dennis Hastert Paid to Hide Sexual Misconduct With Student: Official

by PETE WILLIAMS, ERIN MCCLAM and TRACY CONNOR

BREAKING NEWS MAY 29 2015, 4:22 PM ET

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man to conceal sexual misconduct while the man was a student at the high school where Hastert taught, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News on Friday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity. Tribune newspapers reported earlier in the day that two unnamed federal officials said that Hastert paid a man from his past to conceal sexual misconduct.

Related: Ex-Speaker Hastert Indicted Over Cash Withdrawals

Hastert was indicted Thursday on charges that he structured bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements and later lied about it to the FBI.

The indictment said that Hastert was paying an unidentified person from his past to conceal Hastert's "prior misconduct." The indictment did not specify the alleged misconduct or name the person.

The Yorkville, Illinois, school district where Hastert taught and coached wrestling from 1965 to 1981 said that it had "no knowledge of Mr. Hastert's alleged misconduct, nor has any individual contacted the District to report any such misconduct."

Representatives for Hastert have not returned requests for comment from NBC News.

Charles Hastert, a nephew, told NBC News on Friday that his uncle "has always been as honest and clean as they come." He said he believes the charges are probably a political witch-hunt.










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The Seattle Times


Sunday, August 2, 1998

An Action-Packed Summer Read -- Tom Clancy's Latest Storms The Shores

By Melinda Bargreen

Seattle Times Staff Critic

------------------------------- "Rainbox Six" by Tom Clancy Putnam, $27.95 -------------------------------

Rumblings in the distance are growing louder, as a phalanx of trucks approaches local bookstores. There is a diesel storm rising.

Tom Clancy is back.

Yes, fans, the latest humongous Clancy doorstop of a book - at 752 pages, a veritable Cortez Kennedy among action-thrillers - officially hits stores tomorrow. From there, it will undoubtedly commence liftoff for The New York Times' best-seller list and eventually a theater near you.

"Rainbow Six," a new techno-thriller about an elite international antiterrorist squad, has all the usual Clancy paraphernalia: action galore, taut plotting, state-of-the art weapons and heroic guys about whose safety the reader need entertain no serious fears.

The main hero here is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL who went ballistic in an earlier Clancy novel, "Without Remorse," and whom Clancy has called "the dark side" of his primary hero, Jack Ryan. (Ryan, of course, first surfaced in "The Hunt for Red October" and has since escalated into the most heroic American president since Lincoln).

Clark is quite a fellow, too. He has more decorations than the White House Christmas tree: Navy Cross, Silver Star with a repeat cluster, Bronze Star with Combat-V and three repeats, three Purple Hearts, et al. He's the hero of many covert international missions in which the Free World's bacon was definitively saved.

He may be pushing 60, but Clark can still run with the big dogs, and he still gets that dangerous look on his face that makes smart people not want to mess with him.

There are many stupid people in the world, however, and Clancy has a field day with a bunch of environmental extremists who are the chief (though not only) villains of "Rainbow Six." These wackos have concocted a biological blowout more deadly than anything Saddam Hussein could ever contrive, an apocalypse that will heal Mother Nature and get the buffaloes roaming again on the prairie.

The extremists of "the Project" first manifest themselves in a puzzling series of terrorist strikes, which conveniently begin just as Clark's tautly trained Rainbow squadron is ready for action. But why, they wonder, are they being called upon to counter such incidents as a hostage scenario at a Swiss bank, a high-level kidnapping at a German Schloss and a raid on a Spanish amusement park in which innocent children - two of them in wheelchairs - are held at gunpoint?

Could these incidents be related? That's the question John Clark ponders, but all Clancy fans know the answer: You bet your nuke-launching sub they're related.

The story opens with an attempted hijacking aboard the jet that's taking Clark and his teammates (and their families) to England, where the Rainbow organization is based. The terrorists certainly picked the wrong jet to hijack. The action almost never lets up - except when enviro-crazies prose on at boring length about their exceedingly unrealistic utopia - through hundreds of pages to the finale at the Sydney Olympics, where eco-Armageddon is supposed to strike.

Clancy's supporters often claim that his writing style has changed and developed over his 14 years of best-sellerdom. But let's face it: The style and structure of "Rainbow Six" isn't really all that different from "Red October." (There is, however, a sad dearth of submarines in this landlocked thriller, and that's a pity; nobody does subs with Clancy's level of swashbuckling glee.)

About the only thing that has changed is that there are many more ruminations on how little fun it is to get old, especially for an action guy. Clark is well into middle age, like his creator, and "Rainbow Six" is peppered with mordant observations about looking at "the next major milestone on his personal road to death (with) the number sixty on it."

Like a literary farmer of sorts, Clancy strolls his fields, scattering seeds here and there, and we watch the seedlings come up in a pattern that at first seems random. The action caroms, seemingly illogically, as Clancy introduces characters and subplots that continue to grow and grow, liberally fertilized by lines such as, "Looking at (the Rainbow warriors), John Clark saw Death before his eyes, and Death, here and now, was his to command."

Death, of course. But also millions of dollars in book sales. Here is your summer beach book, one that will not only weigh down your towel in a hurricane, but also provide hours of high-excitement reading and a few calluses from speed-flipping the pages.

Do we care that the protagonists are not masterpieces of psychological complexity, or that the few women characters are rudimentary objects designed to bear babies and get kidnapped? Frankly, we do not. This is Clancyland. This big dog makes his own rules.





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H.R.3821 [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]

Title: To designate the Headquarters Compound of the Central Intelligence Agency located in Langely, Virginia, as the George H.W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence.

Sponsor: Rep Portman, Rob [OH-2] (introduced 5/7/1998) Cosponsors (158)

Latest Major Action: 8/31/1998 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Intelligence.

SUMMARY AS OF:

5/7/1998--Introduced.

Designates the headquarters compound of the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, as the George H.W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence.

MAJOR ACTIONS:

5/7/1998 Introduced in House

8/3/1998 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.










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Tom Clancy

Rainbow Six


CHAPTER 16

DISCOVERY


"M2, M3, and F9," Dr. Archer replied. "They seem to have proper attitudes. One's a member of the Sierra Club, would you believe? The others like it outdoors, and they should be okay with what we're doing."

"Political criteria for scientific tests-what are we coming to?" the man asked with another chuckle.

"Well, if they're going to live, they might as well be people we can get along with," Archer observed.

"True." A nod. "How confident are you with -B?"

"Very. I expect it to be about ninety-seven percent effective, perhaps a little better," she added conservatively.

"But not a hundred?"

"No, Shiva's a little too nasty for that," Archer told him. "The animal testing is a little crude, I admit, but the results follow the computer model almost exactly, well within the testing-error criteria. Steve's been pretty good on that side."

"Berg's pretty smart," the other doctor agreed. Then he shifted in his chair. "You know, Barb, what we're doing here isn't exactly-"

"I know that," she assured him. "But we all knew that coming in."

"True." He nodded submission, annoyed at himself for the second thoughts. Well, his family would survive, and they all shared his love of the world and its many sorts of inhabitants. Still, these two people on the TV, they were humans, just like himself, and he'd just peeped in on them like some sort of pervert. Oh, yeah, they'd only done it because both were loaded with drugs fed to them through their food or in pill form, but they were both sentenced to death and

"Relax, will you?" Archer said, looking at his face and reading his mind. "At least they're getting a little love, aren't they? That's a hell of a lot more than the rest of the world'll get-"



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