Scandal

The Final Obama Scandal

... only saw the light of day thanks not to the Obama White House but to that 2015 terrorism trial in Brooklyn. Agha was corresponding with bin Laden's senior-most manager, a jihadist known as Atiyah Abd al Rahman. In a key letter to bin Laden, dated June 19, 2010, Rahman mentions that he is "in contact with" Agha and is passing along one of Agha's missives. That same letter from Rahman to bin Laden describes al Qaeda's "very strong military activity" inside Afghanistan, including the group's presence in at least eight different provinces. Rahman explained that bin Laden's forces were closely cooperating with Siraj Haqqani, who is currently one of the Taliban's top two deputy leaders and was already a key figure in the organization at the time. The same month as Rahman's letter, June 2010, the CIA announced its assessment of al Qaeda's strength inside Afghanistan. Appearing on ABC's This Week, then-CIA director Leon Panetta claimed that al Qaeda's presence in the country was "relatively small" ...

Scoop On 'supernatural,' 'scandal,' 'hawaii Five-0' And More

... is the time now that we’re going to be finding out a lot in the next couple of episodes,” Goran Visnjic tells me. “We’re going to be traveling into some cool time periods and meeting some really interesting people, but also we’re going to find out a lot about everybody. Lucy’s going to come in touch with the real journal, that is completely empty, very soon. What’s she going to put in there? How far ahead the cooperation between Flynn and Lucy is happening, we don’t know that. It might be 20 years from now or three years from now because things are changing so fast. We’re going to get a lot of answers.”. When is How to Get Away with Murder going to address that Bonnie-Annalise kiss ? — Ronald. Well, Annalise is in jail and a little preoccupied, so it might be a while. “Their relationship is one of the key relationships of the show to me,” EP Pete Nowalk tells me, raising some very important questions: “Is that the first time they’ve kissed? Have they done more? The other thing is that kiss means nothing ...

True To Form, Scandal Does The Opposite Of What We Expect

... than the series seriously examines the weight and gravitas of holding presidential office. But with this turn of events, Rhimes has set up this season as a grudge match that forces Olivia to tangle with Cyrus, a man Olivia’s dangerous father warns her is “the most dangerous predator.”. Suffice it to say, this season of “Scandal” will not serve a sunnier alternative to the real world in the way “The West Wing” was credited for doing. (Given the way the nation is going at the moment, even the presidencies depicted on “Homeland” and “Designated Survivor” seem more stable than our real one.). Thursday’s season premiere and episodes airing over the next few weeks were written and filmed at some point between July and September. This means you’ll find no sly topical commentary in its scripts or views of what might have ...

Bt Profits Dive In Wake Of Italian Scandal

... for oversight of the Italian business. That will pass to Luis Alvarez, chief executive of BT's Global Services international business. BT Italia chief executive Gianluca Cimini was sacked last year and has now been replaced with Andrea Bono, who previously ran BT's operations in Switzerland and the Nordics. The heavy financial blow from the scandal, which is expected to wipe £500 m off BT's free cash flow this year alone, outweighed a strong performance in the company's domestic network businesses. EE, the mobile operator BT acquired for £12.5 bn, reported 2 pc revenue growth as it added 276,000 monthly subscribers. BT boss Gavin Patterson. Demand for faster broadband delivered an all-time record 498,000 new fibre connections for Openreach, the unit responsible for BT's fixed line network, which is also used by Sky and Talk Talk. BT's retail business accounted for more than half of the total. Gavin Patterson, BT's embattled chief executive, said the misconduct in Italy ...

Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Football Rape Scandal More Widespread Than Reported

... a Virginia woman who alleges that she was gang-raped by two Baylor players in 2013, is the latest fallout in a sexual-violence scandal that has embroiled the Baptist university in Waco, Tex., for more than a year. Baylor’s president, athletic director and head football coach all lost their jobs last year after an independent investigation found that athletic department leadership left women on campus at risk by discouraging victims from reporting assaults and keeping accusations against Bears players quiet. That previous investigation, conducted by a law firm hired by Baylor’s board of regents, found 19 players accused of domestic or sexual assault by 17 women. Lawyers for the Virginia woman — Elizabeth Doe in the lawsuit — claim to have uncovered evidence of far more sex crimes committed by Baylor players as the program rose to national prominence from 2011 to 2014. [ Read the entire lawsuit Elizabeth Doe vs. Baylor University ]. Late Friday night, ...

Abuse Scandal At German Military Training Center

... charged, five officers demoted. Soldiers at a military training center were allegedly subjected to violent rituals and sexual abuse. So far, German military authorities have filed criminal charges against seven soldiers, according to the federal ministry of defense. The soldiers have been accused of unlawful detention, criminal assault and coercion. Five leading officers at Staufer were demoted in order to "allow for a new start," according to the ministry. Von der Leyen said that what happened at the training center was particularly shameful considering the many soldiers who treated their comrades respectfully and who worked hard to improve the image of the troops. "What happened in Pfuffendorf is repulsive and despicable," she said. According to Spiegel Online, there had already been investigations into allegations of misconduct and mobbing against female soldiers in Pfullendorf in 2015, but ...