I guess we'll hear no more about this one: "The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating an assistant police chief who refused to give an officer his license and vehicle registration after the officer had pulled him over for driving more than 20 mph over the speed limit in Southeast on Tuesday. It was the second time in a little more than a year that the officer ticketed Assistant Chief Willie Dandridge for speeding on that stretch of road, police union officials said. Chief Dandridge was driving an unmarked cruiser on Branch Avenue Southeast near Alabama Avenue about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday when the officer clocked the cruiser traveling at 46 mph on a two-lane stretch where the speed limit is 25 mph, union officials said. Police sources familiar with the incident said it is under investigation, but police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile would not confirm that a probe is under way."


Coverup, coverup! "A federal appeals court turned aside efforts to open closed-door arguments Thursday in the case of a fired FBI contractor who alleged there were security breaches and misconduct at the bureau. Sibel Edmonds is seeking to revive her lawsuit against the government. It was thrown out of U.S. District Court when the Bush administration invoked the state secrets privilege, which allows the government to withhold information to safeguard national security. Edmonds says she was dismissed from her job as a wiretap translator because she told superiors she suspected a co-worker was leaking information to targets of an ongoing FBI probe. A three-judge panel closed the court arguments, even though Edmonds' allegations have been outlined in court papers, in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general and on Capitol Hill."


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