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Nkdd Sarah Palin to Appear on Jay Leno s Tonight Show
Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday evening there is no daylight between the U.S. and South Korea, despite their different approaches to engagement with North Korea at the Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games. South Korean President Moon Jae-in had a luncheon earlier Saturday with the North Koreans, while Pence declined opportunities for contact with South Korea s neighbor to the north.Moon provided Pence with a readout of the historic luncheon between the North and South. On the flight home from his Asian-Pacific trip flying somewhere ov stanley cup er South Korea, Pence told reporters aboard Air Force Two that he appreciated Moon s transparency and perspective on North Korea, stanley cup but reiterated that the U.S. and South Korea will continue to stand strong and to work in a coordinated way to bring maximum economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea. I leave here very confident that we are going to continue to do the things we know have to be done to continue to pressure North Korea to abandon their nuclear ambitions, Pence said.Pence, Moon speak after Moon in stanley canada vited to visit North KoreaThe task of Pence s trip, designed to distract the world s gaze from North and South Korea s Olympic unification, proved too difficult to execute as remarkable images of a smiling Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un s sister, standing alongside Moon at the Blue House emerged from the day and dominated the airwaves. North Korea s nominal head of state Kim Yon Rtdb Unplugged Truth Panel: Health Care Myths Dissected
President Barack Obama stanley quencher speaks at a news conference at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Monday, May 21, 2012. AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato stanley water jug CBS News In a press conference marking the end of this year s NATO Summit, President Obama on Monday touted the group s formal agreement for a responsible withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan, and said that while gains in the country remain fragile, he does not believe there will ev stanley cup er be an optimal point to withdraw. There is genuine improvement in the performance of Afghan National Security Forces, but the Taliban is still a robust enemy and the gains are still fragile, Mr. Obama told reporters in Chicago, where he hosted this year s two-day meeting.Added the president: I don t think that there s ever going to be an optimal point where we say, this is all done, this is perfect, this is just the way we wanted it and now we can wrap up our equipment and go home. This is a process and it s sometimes a messy process. NATO leaders formally agreed Monday to Mr. Obama s timetable to turn primary security responsibilities in Afghanistan over to the Afghan people by the end of December 2014, pledging in a group declaration that the withdrawal would be done gradually and responsibly over the next two years. The alliance s 28 members also agreed that the transition would be irreversible and discussed how to build on the NATO-Afghanistan partne

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Aeal Facebook s Mark Zuckerberg confirms he and his wife recommended colleagues to Pete Buttigieg
The Energy Department will not release the names of employees that have worked on climate change policy, an agency spokesperson said Tuesday, pushing back on requests from President-elect Donald Trumprsquo transition team. We will be forthcoming with all publicly-available information with the transition team, spokesperson Eben Burnham-Snyder said in a statement. But, [w]e will not be providing any individual names to the transition team. Trump team wants names of Energy Dept. staff who worked on climate change 00:40 vaso stanley stanley mug The agency said it received significant feedback from its employees, after the Trump transition team released a 74-question survey asking officials to identify those who were involved in international climate talks and who worked to advance the current adminis stanley cup trationrsquo climate policies. The questionnaire, obtained by CBS News on Friday, asked questions including, Which programs within [the Department of Energy] are essential to meeting the goals of President Obamarsquo Climate Action Plan Herersquo another one: Can you provide a list of all Department of Energy employees or contractors who have attended any Interagency Working Group on the Social cost of Carbon meeting Bfkw Irish government says Trump has postponed November trip to Ireland
AP At a town hall meeting in Nigeria Wednesday in which she said the country needs to fix its flawed electoral system, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that American has troubles of its own, citing the disputed 2000 presidential election as an example. Our democracy is still evolving, Clinton said, as the Wall Street Journal reports. You know we ve had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections, as you might remember. In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for president was the governor of the state, so we have our stanley italia problems, too. Cl stanley becher inton s reference, of course, was to then-presidential candidate George W. Bush and then-Florida governor Jeb Bush. The point she is making is that it s about a disputed result and then the willingness of the candidates to accept a flawed result rather than, say, resort to violence, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley told reporters later. Crowley went on to note that then-candidate Al Gore accepted the result despite questions about the legitimacy of the election. This has been a consistent message she has delivered to countries who are stru stanley mug ggling in Africa, that they have to strengthen their electoral processes and form independent electoral commissions, but most importantly the candidates themselves have to accept the results rather than resort to violence, Crowley said. In her remarks, Clin

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Oack Trump on Twitter mocks Biden for wearing a mask in public
President Trump took to his favorite social media platform to post an image showing him welcomeCabinet members to the White House for their first meeting.Seema Verma confirmed as Trumprsquo CMS direct botella stanley orVice President Mike Pence sat across the table from Mr. Trump.The tweet reads: Proud to welcome our great Cabinet members to the@WhiteHousethis afternoon with@VPPence. Proud to welcome our great Cabinet members to the @WhiteHouse this afternoon with @VP Pence. pic.twitter/nwnSqk8wSTmdash; Pres stanley quencher ident Trump @POTUS March 13, 2017 White House press secretary Sean Spicer also marked another moment with Mr. Trumprsquo Cabinet as they watched him sign an executive order aimed at cutting costs of the federal government. .@POTUS w his cabinet watching, signed an exec order that requires thorough exam of every executive department agency pic.twitter/ugjgvCGAfymdash; Sean Spicer @PressSec March 13, 2017 Mr. Trump used his personal twitter handle, @realDonaldTrump, to emphasize that four seats on his Cabinet were empty because Senate Dems are delaying, he wrote. The four members of Mr. Trumprsquo Cabinet awaiting confirmation include nominees for agriculture secretary, labor secretary, Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. trade representative.In the same Cabinet meeting on Monday, Spicer posted this alternate picture angle to Twitter: stanley bottles .@POTUS held his first cabinet meeting today; di Xbtu Cheney Aide Libby Heads To Court
President Barack Obama s choice to head the CIA faces a Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing just hours after lawmakers are expected to receive a classified report providing the rationale for drone strikes targeting Americans working with al Qaeda overseas.John Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief and Obama s nominee to run the nation s spy agency, helped manage the drone program. The confirmation hearing Thursday sets the stage for a public airing of some of the most controversial programs in the covert war on al Qaeda, from the deadly drone strikes to the CIA s use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding during President George W. Bush s administration.Obama directed the Justice Department to provide access to the secret document to members of the Senate and House i stanley canada ntelligence committees, an administration official said W garrafa stanley ednesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the Senate committee s chairman, said the legal opinion would be provided to her committee by this morning.At Brennan heari stanley cup ng, U.S. drone policy in the spotlightCongress looks to limit drone strikesAn unclassified memo leaked this week says it is legal for the government to kill U.S. citizens abroad if it believes they are senior al Qaeda leaders continually engaged in operations aimed at killing Americans, even if there is no evidence of a specific imminent attack. That unclassified memo is based on classified advice from the Office of Legal Co

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Kazg Obama Weighing Fundraising Options
The super PAC supporting John Kasich s presidential candidacy, New Day for America, has released a new ad designed to draw a direct contrast with Republican frontrunner, billionaire businessman Donald Trump.The ad, called Momentum, opens on a helicopter that conjures the image of Trump s helicopter, and an announcer s voiceover initially seems to list characteristics that describe Trump. It says, He s turned red ink to black. Shattered expectations. Experience. Success. The ad goes on to say that he s blunt and direct, and not part of stanley tumblers the tired system, and as the announcer says that he s done gr stanley cup eat things - not for himself, but for us, the achievements Kasich touts on the campaign trail appear on screen, like the number of jobs he s created, stanley cups balancing the budget, his time in Congress, and the tax cuts he s enacted. Here s the ad: Bloomberg first reported the ad, which was produced by veteran political ad man Fred Davis. He s known for spots like Celebrity, which mocked then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008, as well as for one of the weirder ads produced in recent years, Demon Sheep, for Carly Fiorina in 2010, who was at the time running for California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer s senate seat.The super PAC characterized the buy as substantial and said it slrm; running the ad from Sept. 22-Oct. 12 on New Hampshire broadcast and cable TV. This ad, its fifth in New Hampshire, brings the group s spending on New Ha Binb Controversial Burma visit not an endorsement of its government, Obama says
The top U.S. intelligence official is telling Congress it should not succumb to pressure to roll back a new law that enhances the government s eavesdropping capability on terrorists as well as more traditional potential adversaries.Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, says China and Russia are aggressively spying on sensitive U.S. facilities, intelligence systems stanley mug and development projects, and their efforts are approaching Cold War levels. Foreign intelligence information concerning the plans, activities and intentions of f stanley cup oreign po stanley thermos wers and their agents is critical to protect the nation and preserve our security, McConnell stated in testimony prepared for a Tuesday congressional hearing. He is trying not only to hold the line against what some, mainly Democrats, see as excesses in the new Protect America Act, but also is pressing to strengthen it. Congress hastily adopted the measure last August based on McConnell s warnings of a dire gap in U.S. intelligence.The law eased some of the restrictions on government eavesdropping contained in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Many are now having second thoughts as the complicated law intended to ease the government s interception of foreign calls and e-mails has come under attack by civil liberties and privacy advocates who contend it gives the government broader powers than intended. McConnell says the Protect America Act gave the government the freedom to l

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Drtb President Trump s Cabinet scorecard: Who s been confirmed
President Donald Trump asked a federal judge on Monday to order private arbitration in a case brought by a porn actress who claimed she had an affair with him.Mr. Trump and his personal attorney, Michael Coh stanley website en, filed papers in federal court in Los Angeles asking a judge to rule that Stormy Daniels case involving a non-disclosure agreement must be heard by an arbitrator instead of a jury.Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has been seeking to invalidate the agreement she signed days before the 2016 presidential election. She has offered to return the $130,000 she was paid as she tries to set the record straight. Stormy Daniels details alleged Trump affair on 60 stanley cup Minutes 03:14 She s said she had sex with Mr. Trump once in 2006 and their relationship continued for about a year. Mr. Trump married his current wife, Melania Trump, in 2005, and their son, Barron, was born in 2006. The White House has said Mr. Trump denies having an aff stanley cup air.Mr. Trump s attorneys have argued that Daniels could owe about $20 million for violating the non-disclosure deal. Michael Cohen spokesman says Stormy Daniels NDA and $130K payment a no brainer 08:42 Ypck Bush: Have A Little Faith
Don t look to crown any presidential nominees on Super Tuesday.The race for delegates is so close in both parties that it is mathematically impossible for any candidate to lock up the nomination on Feb. 5, according to an Ass stanley thermos mug ociated Press analysis of the states in play that day. A lot of people were predicting that this presidential election on both sides was going to be this massive sprint that ended on Feb. 5, said Jenny Backus, a Democratic consultant who is not affiliated with any candidate. Now it s looking as if the primaries after Super Tuesday - including such big, delegate-rich states as Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania - could grow in importance. Maybe some states were better off waiting, said Backus.That doesn t mean Sup stanley hrnek er Tuesday won t be super after all. Voters in more than 20 states will go to the polls on the biggest day of the primary campaign, and thousands of delegates will be at stake. But it s possible Feb. 5 might not even produce clear front-runners.Here s why:Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer. She has 236, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates, giving her a 100-delegate lead over Sen. Barack Obama.There will be nearly 1,700 Democratic delegates at stake on Feb. 5, enough to put a candidate well on his or her way to the 2,025 needed to secure the nomination. But even if somehow eit stanley cup website her Clinton or O

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Immu Holder: Osama Can Remain Silent Forever
stanley tumbler As negotiations continue in the Senate over the language for a comprehensive immigration bill, the Senate Judiciary Committee moved forward Tuesday with a measure prompted by concerns stanley polska inspired by last month s Boston bombings. The amendment, which passed out of committee unanimously on Tuesday, makes monitoring requirements on foreign students more stringent, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to implement the real-time transmission of student visa information to databases used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection across the country. Immigration a hot button after Boston bombingImmigration amendments hit on security, Obamacare and more According to a Judiciary Committee spokeswoman, the legislation, proposed by the committee s top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, was prompted by the fact that Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the students charged as an accomplice in the bombings, had a nullified visa. Tazhayakov had not registered for school when he returned from Kazhakstan, and his stanley taza visa was consequently pulled. The border agent who allowed him to re-enter the country, however, did not have that information in his computer. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security enacted a similar policy, ordering border agents to verify student visas at ports of entry. In the wake of the Boston bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 260, a handful of senators involved in the immigration reform neg Pzbb John Kerry hits the ice for charity
The latest theme of pundit commentary on the Obama administration is overload.A cartoon in Sundayrsquo Washington P stanley cups uk ost shows a chopper dropping the presidentrsquo massive agenda on the Capitol, ready to crush the dome. New York Times columnist David Brooks warned that in trying to do everything at once,rdq garrafinhas stanley uo; Obama might do nothing well. On ABCrsquo This Week, host George Stephanopoulos asked budget director Peter Orzag about overloading the circuits.But conversations with an array of White House aides, allies and advisers make clear that Obama sees the massive size of his agenda as a political advantage, not a vulnerability. The decision to move big and quickly with a $3.6 trillion budget that tries to tackle not just an ailing economy but energy, education and health care was a deliberate strategy mdash; one that Obama believes leaves Washingtonrsquo deck stacked decisively in his favor, no matter the final fate of his proposals. Herersquo Obamarsquo logic, as described by people who work with him:1 Hersquo;ll never have more mojo than now. Some presidents have regarded political influence as like money in a savings account, to be doled out selectively. Obama and White House chief of stanley cup staff Rahm Emanuel have a different theory mdash; that new presidents grow their capital by moving boldly and chalking up successes in as many arenas as possible.This logic h

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Kpyd Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker defends state s new sweeping gun ban
TOLEDO, Ohio mdash; Federal agents arrested stanley website more than 100 workers an Ohio meatpacking plant Tuesday mdash; the second large-scale raid within the state in the past two weeks. The arrest follows a yearlong immigration investigation.The investigation focused on whether the company knowingly hired people who are in the country illegally and used fake identities belonging to U.S. citizens to get their jobs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.The arrests come as the U.S. government steps up its focus on businesses that hire people in the country illegally as part of a broad range of immigration crackdowns under Republican President Donald Trump. stanley cup website Agents arrested 146 people in one of the largest workplace immigration raids in recent years. It took place at Fresh Mark s meat processing plant in Salem, in northeastern Ohio. Immigration agents and local authorities also carried out search warrants at the company s two other locations in Massillon and its plant in Canton.Most of the workers arrested were from Guatemala, said Khaalid Walls, an agency spokesman. Several of those who were detained were processed and released on Tuesday because they are the sole care providers of children or they have health concerns, Walls said. The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents workers at the targeted pl stanley cup ant and two other Fresh Mark plants in Ohio, called the raid an egregious show of force, and said it was w Jnpg Judge criticizes Barr for lack of candor in summaries of Mueller report
CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit stanley drink bottle : Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anth stanley vattenflaska ony Salvanto.A new CBS News poll shows Americans are giving President Obama credit for getting sweeping health care reform legislation passed in the House of Representatives on Sunday, and slightly more people now approve of the policy changes, but not quite a majority. CBS re-interviewed 649 adults, initially questioned for a poll conducted March 18-21, on Monday and Tuesday following the House vote. Of those re-interviewed, 47 percent said they approved of the job the President is doing on health care, up six points from the CBS News Poll conducted just prior to the House vote. However, views of his handling of health care were still mixed, with 48 percent saying they disapprove. Read the Complete PollHealth Care Bill Signed by ObamaGOP Amendments Aim to Box-In Senate DemsComplete Coverage: Health Care ReformTwo in three Americans re-inte stanley mug rviewed after the bill passed said the passage represents an accomplishment for the President - including more than half who saw it as a major accomplishment, up from 46 percent before Sunday s vote. Just 32 percent said it was not an accomplishment for Mr. Obama. Most Democrats and half of independents said they viewed health care reform as a major accomplishment for President Obama. Few Republicans saw it that way.Support for the bill itself has also risen five points since the House vo

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Essg Rex Tillerson has tense relationship with Trump, Nikki Haley
Washington mdash; A group of Jewish Democratic House members released a statement criticizing Congresswoman Ilhan Omar for equating the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban, after the Democrat from Minnesota tweeted earlier this week that we have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban. Equating the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban is as offensive as it is misguided. Ignoring the di stanley deutschland fferences between democracies govern stanley cup ed by the rule of law and contemptible organizations that engage in terrorism at best discredits one s intended argument and at worst reflects deep-seated prejudice, said the group of 11 House Democrats, led by Congressman Brad Schneider. The United States and Israel are imperfect and, like all democracies, at times deserving of critique, but false equivalencies give cover to terrorist groups. We urge Congresswoman Omar to clarify her words placing the US and Israel in the same category as Hamas and the Taliban, the statement continued. On Monday, Omar tweeted a clip of a hearing with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, writing that we must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity. Omar immediately received blow stanley tumbler back from right-wing lawmakers and media outlets, but the statement from her Democratic colleagues indicates that she upset some in her own party for her comments as well.Oma Ifep McCain s Coffers Swell; Palin Hires Atty
AP/CDC At his press briefing this afternoon, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced that an individual who traveled to Mexico City to support the U.S. delegation that accompanied the president to Mexico City came down with flu-like symptoms associated with his work in Mexico. Three members of the individual s family tested positive for Type A influenza, and tests are currently underway to determine if they contracted the 2009 H1N1 influenza strain, Gibbs said. Individual family members suffered mild to moderate symptoms, received no medication, were not hospitalized, and have recovered. Gibbs did not definitively say that the individu stanley quencher al had H1N1 or swine flu, but said because it was a possibility, the White House felt the need to disclose the probability of this. The White House did not name the individual, but said he was a lead advance for the security detail of Energy Secretary [Steven] Chu. He arrived in Mexico April 13th in advance of Chu, became sick on the 16th and returned to the U.S. on the 18th. The president arrived in Mexico on the 16th. Gibbs said the individual did not fly on Air Force One and was asked specifically if he ever came within six feet of the president, and the answer to that was no. He is now fine and has returned to work. Gibbs said both President Obama and Chu have shown no symptoms of the disease. Let s understand that we are now almost twice stanley cups uk the limit removed from a sympt stanley tazas omatic win

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Mpun Press groups ask Congress to investigate Gianforte over body slam incident
The super PAC backing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for president released a new ad on Monday that rips President Obama s foreign policy and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton will be a third term of Barack Obama, Christie says in the beginning of the 30-second ad titled Tested. The ad created by America Leads goes on to say Mr. Obama s failed foreign policy has led to the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS . Radical I botella stanley slamic terrorism cannot continue, Christie says in a jab at the president, who has been criticized by Republicans for not using the same language to describe ISIS. stanley tumbler Christie then talks about being named U.S. attorney on the day before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. I ve watched the loss and the suffering and the pain, he said. My number one priority as a leader is to make sure that there isn t another generation of widows and orphans created because of a terrorist attack on the American homeland. Hitti stanley cup ng the campaign trail with Gov. Chris Christie 02:24 The ad is part of a $6.9 million buy for the Boston and New Hampshire TV markets and will air over the next seven to 10 days, according to a spokesman for America Leads. It s coming out just over a month away before the primary sea Zrjw President Trump extends immigrant and work visa limits into Biden presidency
By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blogI wholeheartedly endorse the position taken by this lead editorial in stanley cup the Wall Street Journal urging George W. Bush to pardon Scooter Libby. Libby was a dedicated and hypercompetent public servant who was brought down by a prosecutor investigating a scandal that wasn t a scandal. The investigation purportedly was an attempt to discover who had told Robert Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative Novak s word . But prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew before the investigation began that the leaker was Deputy Secretary of St stanley cups uk ate Richard Armitage. It is astonishing that Armitage and his friend and boss Secretary of copo stanley State Colin Powell didn t inform Bush of this and allowed two of his top aides, Libby and Karl Rove, to be harassed by Fitzgerald for months and years.A Libby pardon will of course be assailed by many in the press, just as many in the press treated the Plame disclosure as the most serious breach of intelligence in years. But these are the same people who gleefully hailed the New York Times s disclosure of NSA surveillance of suspected terrorists outside the United States and of the Swift bank system--two breaches of intelligence that, unlike the Plame disclosure, materially damaged the government s efforts to prevent terrorist attacks. It will be interesting to see if the press chooses to willfully damage U.S. intelligence operations in the Obama administration. In the meantime, please, Mr. President, pardon Scooter

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Jens Obama, McCain Discuss TV, Movie Picks
Today in the Trump AdministrationNew Labor secretary named today in Trump press conferencePresident Trump announcedhis new Labor secretary nominee, less than a day afterAndrew Puzder withdrew his namefrom consideration for the post. Itrsquo lawyer Alexander Acosta, whom the president met with Wednesday.Who is Alexander Acosta Acosta is the dean of Florida International University Law School. The Harvard-trained lawyer is also a former assistant attorney general for the Justice Departmentrsquo Civil Rights Division and former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Acosta was the first Hispanic who held the rank of assistant attorney general.Harward rejects national security adviser jobVice Admiral Robert Harward has rejected President Trumprsquo offer to be the new national security adviser, CBS Newsrsquo; Major Garrett reports.Robert Harward offered national security adviser jobSources close to the situation told Garrett Harward and the administration had a dispute over over st stanley cup affing the security council. Two sources close to the situation confirm Harward Harward demanded his own team, and the stanley cups uk White House resisted. Specifically, Mr. Trump told Deputy National Security Adviser K. T. McFarland that she could retain her post, even after the ouster of National Security Adviser Michael FlynnImpromptu press conference highlightsRussiaAsked by Major Garrett about thr stanley cup ee recent examples of recent Russian aggression against Stvg Editorial: Gulf War Illness Report A Chilling Reminder Of Cost Of War
A man who s stanley cup been bungee jumping even though he doesn t like heights, federal prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald will go a long way to challenge himself.The attorney behind the CIA leak inv stanley mug estigation has taken on Democrats at Chicago City Hall as well as Republicans at the White House in a career that has included chasing terrorists and the mob. An old friend called him Elliot Ness with a Harvard law degree and a sense of humor. CBS News correspondent Jim Axelrod reports that when it came to picking a special counsel for the high-stakes CIA leak case, it was a no-brainer video , according to Fitzgerald s former boss, who says Americans should know that he is stanley mug a top-notch attorney. What they ought to know first of all is they wish that this guy were cloned and every prosecutor in the United States could be just like him, said Mary Jo White, a former U.S. attorney. The 44-year-old New Yorker, now Chicago s chief federal prosecutor, is digging into Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley s political empire, and corruption charges are flowing. At the same time he has been probing the disclosure of a CIA agent s identity in an investigation reaching to President Bush s top aides.He s also behind the prosecution of former Gov. George Ryan on charges that Ryan steered contracts to friends and insiders in return for free vacations and other gifts while he was Illinois secretary of state during the 1990s. As the hard-driving son of a Brooklyn doorm