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In today's episode, Burton 1) said he would bypass Democratic objections by assigning the investigation's next step to a GOP-stacked committee; 2) reversed that decision, evidently at Speaker Gingrich's behest; and 3) "accepted the resignation" of his chief investigator, David Bossie, who is blamed for releasing the transcripts.
And last year, at the behest of the King family, the Justice Department ordered an investigation into the assassination.
When polygraphed on whether he had taken flight training at the behest of an organization, al Salmi's negative response was deemed deceptive.
Either the only witness, Wade's buddy Jack (Jim True), or a third party--perhaps at the behest of the town's capitalist overlord (Holmes Osborne).
The NYT notes that the judge, described as a former campaign worker for Jesse Helms and appointed to the bench by Reagan at Helms' behest, collected signatures on a petition against busing back in 1969, the year the Supreme Court ordered Charlotte to desegregate (fifteen years after Brown vs. the Board of Education ).