Next up: Switzerland.
AFP (“Swiss Fear More Pressure on Bank Secrecy after Obama Victory,” 10 Nov ’08):
Switzerland is likely to come under further pressure from the United States over its prized system of banking secrecy after the election last week of Barack Obama, key sector players predicted. The newly-elected US president, who formally takes office in [...]
Mark Schapiro, “Nuclear [Intelligence] Fallout,” Muckraker blog, 29 Aug ’08):
When we were conducting our final reporting back in March, I researched Urs Friedrich Tinner—the one of the three considered most deeply involved in [A. Q.] Khan’s illicit enterprise—through the electronic database Accurint. I was astounded at the time to see that his U.S. address was [...]
Ethyl Eichelberger died a suicide rather than tolerate the debilitating side effects of the AIDS treatments of the day.
As Klytemnestra:
Nefertiti:
From Joe E. Jeffreys’s memorial note in TDR (The Drama Review), “Ethyl Eichelberger, 1945–1990” (35.1 [Spring ’91], pp. 10–12):
Born James Roy Eichelberger in Pekin, Illinois, to Amish Mennonite parents, he received a drama scholarship to Galesburg’s [...]
The Nexis search that DoJ White House liaisons ran on job candidates:
[first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or [...]
A gaggle of campaigners (NAI, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Michael Zimmer, etc) push Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, and Google’s refusal sparks snark: for example, “Larry Page, the company’s co-founder, didn’t want a privacy link ‘on that beautiful clean home page,’ said one executive at a Google competitor” [...]