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Hearing today. first, he said some f.b.i. agents did cheat on the test about handling surveillance in open cases. director mueller testified to the senate judiciary committee and told the committee member that a number of agents had cheated on their tests either by taking them in groups or having access to the tests beforehand. director mueller did not say exactly how many agents had cheated. he did say an inspector general is looking into the situation. the tests are part of the bureau's techniques to ensure agents know the rules. at that same hearing, director mueller suggested that f.b.i. a...

Of new york. a former judge says david paterson, the governor, should not face criminal charges for his role in a former aide's domestic violence case. the state's one time chief judge says governor paterson made errors in judgment by contacting the aide's former girlfriend after she called police last year. but in a report to new york's attorney general, the judge said those errors do not amount to criminal wrongdoing. however, the judge said the evidence could still be enough to charge the aide, david johnson, the bronx district attorney says he's still investigating the paterson case which ...

>> for 25 years, we didn't enforce the immigration law. they came and they came and they came. we didn't enforce. all of a sudden, we're going to snap our fingers and say leave. >> he says having argued in court that immigration is a federal responsibility, the federal government is now obligated to reform the immigration laws. >> all right. wendell, what are republicans saying tonight? >> well, there's disappointment and surprise, shepard. most felt that the main portion of the law, the requirement that police check the immigration status of people who they arrest for other offenses and suspe...

Me during this difficult period. >> it sustained us all, my blago. before the jury left to begin the work, the judge said he does not expect a speedy verdict and our blago told a spectator to say a prayer. moments later, an elderly woman hugged him and gave our blago a piece of candy. makes you warm and fuzzy, just so nice. must be so great on planet blago, mike. all this lawyering is over and now the jury has the case. how was it there on the planet today? >> you know, shep, the case went to the jury and the blagojevich legal team poured down into the lobby of the dirkson federal building and...

He had served eight years of a life sentence for the 1988 attack on pan am flight 103 that killed 270 people. director mueller said the f.b.i. was heavily involved in the response to the attack but not in the decision to release al-megrahi. >> we've spent a great deal of time with the families investigating that case and with our colleagues overseas and generally in those cases when you spend so much time on the investigation, those who conducted the investigation are queried as to what the disposition should be. that did not happen in this case. >> well, the british and scottish governments m...