The Court of Cassation also ruled that five senior Italian secret service agents - including the former head of the country's military intelligence agency - should be tried for their role in the kidnapping.

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The big news over the weekend was that, as the Washington Post put it, "senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, " contrary to the claim we heard Friday.

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Mineta has put forward a proposal that would put the federal government in charge of security screening, but would not necessarily make all workers doing the screening federal agents, according to a senior Republican aide.

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"The main issue is making sure that people who interact with consumers actually know what they are talking about, " said Wes Bissett, senior counsel for government affairs to the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, an industry group that is promoting the restrictions on navigators.

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It includes what a senior diplomat called unprecedented new travel sanctions that would require countries to expel agents working for sanctioned North Korean companies.

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And surely de Silva's other finding, that ministers also knew generally that senior RUC and MI5 officers were asking for clear guidelines to put their agents on the right side of the law, should have inspired ministers to ask more questions?

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Last week, FBI agents arrested Matthew Ryan Buquet after a grand jury charged him with mailing threatening communication to a senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington state.

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The senior administration officials disclosed that on January 1, just days after the attempted terror attack, two FBI agents secretly flew to Lagos, Nigeria, to meet with officials of the CIA and the State Department.

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