Only a night earlier, Mr. Burris, a Democrat, had provided yet another new, jolting disclosure about his ties to Mr. Blagojevich's closest allies: In the month or two before Mr. Blagojevich appointed him, Mr. Burris, 71, tried, without success, to raise money for the governor, he acknowledged, at the request of the governor's brother.
Although the peace effort was kept quiet, the Saudi foreign minister, Saud al-Faisal, later acknowledged that at the request of Mr. Karzai the country was leading "an attempt with the Afghan parties to put an end to the fighting in Afghanistan and restore security and stability".
Mr. Jordan emerged early on as a major figure in the Lewinsky matter, and he publicly acknowledged that he had helped Ms. Lewinsky at the request of Mrs. Currie.
Mr. Meskini acknowledged that while being interrogated, he made telephone calls at the request of the F.B.I. (which the agency recorded with his consent), to Mokhtar Haouari, who has since been arrested and also charged in the suspected plot.
The first publicly acknowledged placebo-controlled trial and still among the most remarkable took place at the request of King Louis XVI, in 1784, under the direction of Benjamin Franklin, then the American Ambassador to France.
― under pressure from the media and her fellow Democrats ― acknowledged receipt of a letter and said she had kept it confidential at the request of the author.
Judge Wood withdrew at the request of the Clinton White House after she acknowledged the hiring, which occurred before such employment became illegal.
The first publicly acknowledged placebo-controlled trial — and still among the most remarkable — took place at the request of King Louis XVI, in 1784, under the direction of Benjamin Franklin, then the American Ambassador to France.
Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan told The Huffington Post at the time that government "requests to withhold information have become almost blanket policy". Baquet acknowledged Monday that the press "was sometimes too quick to withhold information at the request of the government" in recent years.
He also correctly acknowledged how serious it is if that firm delayed putting out a tough report at the request of a hedge fund.
Mr. Kuze acknowledged that the delay in the sale, which was to have been completed next Tuesday, came at the request of politicians, raising further questions about the independence of Japan's financial watchdog.
