Mr. Hunt has said that the aide, Adam Smith, had acted without his authorization, and Mr. Cameron has said that a decision on Mr. Hunt's future should await the minister's testimony next month before a judicial inquiry that is conducting wide-ranging hearings into the suspected pattern of phone-hacking and other abuses at two Murdoch-owned tabloid newspapers in Britain.
The surge of disqualifications began around the time the Superior Court judge agreed to allow wide-ranging hearings that brought prosecutors' mishandling of informant-related evidence under harsh scrutiny.
The judge has wide discretion on hearings and on the form of any settlement she eventually approves.
At 26 Federal Plaza, where 22 judges with 26,400 pending cases preside over a wide range of hearings on immigrants who are not detained, Judge Burr said an already crushing caseload is now swamped with many who should not have been placed in deportation proceedings by the government in the first place.
James Dingemans, QC for the Hutton inquiry, said at the end of the hearings that wider questions about the war were raised by the particular circumstances of David Kelly's death.
The trading losses, stemming from a bad bet on the exotic financial instruments known as derivatives, prompted Congressional hearings and wide-ranging investigations.
Or why didn't these governors hold exhaustive, wide-ranging, and televised hearings into these public-school "weaknesses," call witnesses, and solicit learned opinion on both sides of this question?
Before Pecora's cross-examination was over, Mitchell had resigned in disgrace.Mr Perino, a professor at St John's University in New York, deftly sets the drama of the Senate hearings within the wider cultural and political ferment.
Mr. Clinton's clemency decisions have ignited a set of Congressional hearings and one wide-ranging influence-peddling investigation.
But last month's hearings, which received wide attention across the state, appear to have slowed the momentum.
