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The former chief of counterintelligence told the Washington Post that investigators targeted Lee because he is Chinese-American and that there is not a "shred of evidence" against him . However, an Energy Department official told the New York Times that the charges of racism are bunk and that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background.
As far as I'm concerned, he lost any shred of a chance he had when he refused to allow Bush to consider a change in the Social Security age.
Kate O'Beirne (CNN's Capital Gang ) and Pat Buchanan ( The McLaughlin Group ) think that Clinton wants Annan to negotiate a "fig leaf," permitting the United States to bow out of war while retaining some shred of credibility.
Corporate executives complained that because their archives are routinely subpoenaed by plaintiffs' attorneys, they have every incentive to shred their data instead of preserving them.
At the beginning of the year he finds, or imagines, a tiny shred of second-rate love with his call girl/deer, and later on finds, or imagines, an even tinier shred of a preposterous less-than-love with his child-girlfriend.