And she's questioning his motivations, rather than questioning his policies.

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The hearings themselves can descend swiftly into publicity seeking and point scoring, rather than probing questioning.

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As long as Germany's stock exchanges are supervised by their regional governments rather than the federal watchdog, BaFin, tougher questioning on such issues is unlikely to come from above, absent a state prosecutor as energetic as New York's Eliot Spitzer.

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But the head of Scotland's public prosecution service - Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland - hit back, questioning why Mr Cable had written to Lord Wallace rather than the Crown Office.

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And rather than making it harder to garner support for a Pluto mission, as some researchers fear, the questioning of Pluto's status seems, if anything, to have advanced their cause.

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Nigerians are increasingly questioning the police and military response, one that relies more on labor-intensive check points rather than intelligence operations that could provide tips on weapons or the composition of the group.

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