r age. The latest scheme for broadening that censorship arrived the week after the Oscar show was reduced to colorless piffle on network television. Ted Stevens, the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, pronounced himself sick of "four-letter words with participles" on cable and satellite telev

ank you for allowing us. There is precedent here. Ted Stevens, the Senator from Alaska case in Washington, DC,

nity to be before you, and we wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to say our peace and thank you for allowing us. There is precedent here. Ted Stevens, the Senator from Alaska case in Washington, DC, Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered an independent investigation by a private lawyer when SOUTHERN DISTR

e precedent cited by defense counsel—the special proceeding initiated by Judge Emmett Sullivan following the dismissal of the prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens—provides no authority for the exercise of the court's power here. See In re Special Proceeding, Misc. No. 09-0198 (EGS). In that case, after the De

as proven more difficult. He pointed to laws that were proposed but never passed in the wake of the disastrous prosecution of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on federal corruption charges. In that case, the OPR had concluded that two prosecutors had "engaged in reckless professional misconduc