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November 14, 2011 | | SCANDALS Did Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, John Kerry, and several other lawmakers benefit from something similar to insider trading during the financial crisis? Hoover Institute research fellow Brian Schweizer analyzed financial disclosures and found that it often appeared they did. Pelosi, for example, was one of the select investors invited to buy Visa stock at a lower rate—about the same time she blocked a bill that would adversely affect Visa’s business. (Her office dismisses Schweizer as a “right-wing hack.”) In Newsweek, Peter J. Boyer reports on the explosive corruption allegations. Presidential One of the signature debates of the Bush years is apparently back: President Obama said on Sunday that he believes waterboarding is “torture” and “contrary to American traditions,” one day after a GOP debate in which only two candidates said they disagreed with the practice. While Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman said they’d outlaw waterboarding, the rest of the GOP field approved of so-called advanced-interrogation techniques, with Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both saying they’d specifically bring waterboarding back. "This is war," Perry said in announcing his approval of enhanced interrogation techniques. "That's what happens in war.” Defensive In her first televised interview, Gloria Cain said her husband would need a “split personality” to do the things described in the sexual-harassment allegations against him. She told Fox News's Greta Van Susteren in an interview set to air Monday, “You hear the graphic allegations and we know that would have been something that’s totally disrespectful of her as a woman. And I know the type of person he is. He totally respects women.” Herman Cain had previously indicated his wife's support for him, saying, “My own wife said that I wouldn’t do anything as silly as what that lady was talking about.” SHOWDOWN Occupy Portland is making waves again. Police in the Oregon city arrested more than 50 people while clearing the encampments of the Occupy movement on Sunday. Authorities issued an eviction notice, and officials then moved to clear the camps and fence them off. Portland’s Mayor Sam Adams said the city's camps had been linked to an increase in crime and drug overdoses, and said that while he was sympathetic to the protest's goals, the Occupy movement should move beyond encampments "in order to get the reforms we need." In Oakland, Calif., police have warned of a similar crackdown. SUSPICIOUS And the plot thickens. Judge Leslie Dutchcot, who ruled that former Penn State assistant football coach and alleged child molester Jerry Sandusky could go free on bail, worked for Sandusky’s charity, the Second Mile. Dutchcot’s profile on the website of law firm Goodall and Yurchak lists volunteering at the Second Mile as one of her career achievements. Prosecutors had initially requested that Sandusky’s bail be set at $500,000 and that he be required to wear a leg monitor, but Dutchcot ruled that he could go free on only $100,000 unsecured bail, which he will have to pay only if he does not show up to court. | | 
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