In the lawsuit Armstrong says the USADA has been working with Food and Drug Administration agent, Jeff Novitzky, who is famous for his work on BALCO, Marion Jones and, more recently, on Armstrong himself.

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Kent Caperton, principal of the Ben Barnes Group, said in an interview that his firm was hired in July 2010 on Mr. Armstrong's behalf for a lobbying effort aimed, in part, at raising concerns about Jeff Novitzky, a Food and Drug Administration special agent who was leading the investigation into Mr. Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service cycling team.

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That, he says, is exactly what would be needed for the drug to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a disease-modifying agent, not just a treatment of symptoms.

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Senior agent in the US Drug Enforcement Administration John Comer warned that while the operation to dismantle this particular cell had been successful, it was just one of many operating in the Atlanta area.

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Prosecutors at the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles have been working with Jeff Novitzky, a special agent from the Food and Drug Administration, on a probe into whether Mr. Armstrong and other professional cyclists and officials committed fraud or conspiracy by profiting from victories obtained through use of performance-enhancing drugs.

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The first such agent to gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval was Seattle Genetics Inc.

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Prompted by the spread of the agent.btz worm, last month the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued rules prohibiting the use of removable media devices like USB sticks.

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During the Reagan Administration, he served for a year as the number-two official at the Veterans Administration, but departed when the agency head sought to cut veteran benefits and downplayed the dangers of exposure to Agent Orange (a herbicide used extensively by U.S. forces in Indochina).

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