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  1. January 01, 1999

    ‘The Encryption Imperative’

    WASHINGTON, January 1, 1999 — Hackers up ante for even routine data protection Read more

  2. October 12, 1998

    Three ICIJ Members Win Recent Awards

    WASHINGTON, October 22, 1998 — Three members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists were honored recently for their work and lifelong commitment to press freedom. Read more

  3. August 24, 1998

    ICIJ Member Works: General as Bandit

    LAGOS, Nigeria, August 24, 1998 — Until General Sani Abacha's death 8 June 1998, Lt.-Gen. Jeremiah Timbut Useni was the second most senior officer in the Nigerian Army. But all that changed over two months ago, when Abacha, Nigeria's worst dictator died. Not only did Useni lose out in the power-game that followed, he also carried the burden of guilt as playing a part in the indulgence that saw Abacha to his grave. Read more

  4. August 03, 1998

    ICIJ Member Works: The Looting of Russia

    WASHINGTON, August 3, 1998 — "Can you take a look at this?" asked Joe Davidson's supervisor at the FBI, handing him a file. Davidson cracked open the folder and was immediately intrigued. A year earlier, in late 1993, an informant had tipped the FBI that a handful of Russian immigrants were throwing huge sums of cash around San Francisco. And shortly after that, Customs had noted the same men bringing a Russian helicopter into San Francisco International Airport. Read more

  5. July 30, 1998

    Unreasonable Risk: The Politics of Pesticides

    WASHINGTON, June 30, 1998 — Statement of Charles Lewis Chairman and Executive Director The Cener for Public Integrity Read more

  6. April 01, 1998

    ICIJ Member Works: Starr Struck - Part Three

    BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — While the tradition of resisting subpoenas was already established in print journalism, it didn't start to develop in the budding broadcast news business until the turbulent late 1960s and early '70s. Read more

  7. April 01, 1998

    ICIJ Member Works: Starr Struck - Part Two

    BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — While the Hubbell Subpoena merited page one treatment in The Times, there was far less coverage, mostly brief mentions, in 1996 when Judge Wright forced ABC to turn over outtakes of a PrimeTime Live interview by Diane Sawyer with Susan McDougal, who was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify about Whitewater. When asked why ABC did not call a press conference or launch a public protest as William Morrow would later do, spokesperson Murphy said, “It's not something we want to comment on publicly.” Read more

  8. April 01, 1998

    ICIJ Member Works: Starr Struck - Part One

    BOSTON, April 1, 1998 — The Kenneth Starr assailed by the Clinton administration as an agent of a vast right-wing conspiracy is the same Kenneth Starr who was hailed in 1987 by many journalists and media lawyers as a savior of investigative reporting. Read more

  9. March 29, 1998

    ICIJ Member Works: From Russia for Love

    MELBOURNE, March 29, 1998 — They told Anna Vladimirovna that if she tried to escape, “things” could happen to her son and family back in the Ukraine. Read more

  10. December 15, 1997

    ICIJ Member Works: “I Will Vote for Serpa” — Carlos Castaño

    COLOMBIA, December 15, 1997 — The evening falls and the creek which will be a mandatory step in the trek towards the next “guerrilla haven” on the list of the feared Carlos Castaño, grows. This makes him impatient. The troops clean their M-16 and the AK-47 guns, get their cartridge holders, grenade-launchers, knives and mortars ready. With skillfulness they, most of them dark-skinned men between 25 and 20 years old, pack their provisions in their bags, strap their CB radios, and put on the black armband with white letters which read ACU: (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) United Self-Defenses of Colombia. Silent, they stand on line formation on the plain terrain in front of the hut where we are talking to Castaño. In the meantime, inside, the self-defenses leader uses an increasingly political language. “Corruption weakens the Government and strengthens outlawed forces like us and like the guerrillas who even refuse to talk to President Samper,” he says again, while a hill of cigarette butts grows and the coffee that “the boy” — as he is still referred to by some of his acquaintances — drinks in gushes, is drained over and over again. Read more

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