How Pharma Derailed DEA's Opioid War
Washington Post, "60 Minutes"
At the height of the opioid crisis, Congress effectively stripped drug enforcers of their most potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of making prescription narcotics widely available, an investigation by the Washington Post and "60 Minutes" finds. Lobbying resulted in a more industry-friendly law, they report. Could Orange Be the New Harvey?
People
Harvey Weinstein's accusers could seek criminal charges or pursue civil lawsuits against the movie mogul, legal experts say — but both carry very specific statutes of limitations. Still, a lawyer says, for "rape in the first degree or aggravated sexual abuse, there's no statute of limitations." And California recently ended its 10-year statute of limitations. Weinstein Helped Pay Clinton's Lewinsky Legal Fees
Gateway Pundit
Back when Bill Clinton was mired in the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Hollywood bigwigs were by his side, offering donations for his legal fees -- including Harvey Weinstein. Gateway Pundit's source: this August 1998 Washington Post report by Peter Baker that Weinstein was among those contributing the maximum $10,000 -- joining Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg, among others. Trump Faces Groping Subpoena
BuzzFeed
A woman who said Donald Trump groped her has subpoenaed his campaign for documents about "any woman" who says he touched her "inappropriately." Summer Zervos, a former contestant on the Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice," accused Trump of kissing and grabbing her when she went to his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007. 'The Danger of President Pence'
New Yorker
Those seeking President Trump's ouster should be careful what they wish for, writes left-leaning investigative journalist Jane Mayer. Vice President Pence's political career "has been sponsored at almost every turn by the donors whom Trump has assailed. Pence is the inside man of the conservative money machine." Scientists Persuading Terrorists to Spill Their Secrets
Guardian
Forget torture because it doesn't work, the Guardian says. Two British scientists have revolutionized the art of extracting the truth by analyzing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, it reports. "A big thing we talk about is leaving your ego at the door," one of the scientists says. "But that's tough, because cops are used to being in control." Investigative Classics: MGM Destroys a Rape Accuser, 1937
Vanity Fair
This week's Investigative Classics feature looks at a case with echoes of Harvey Weinstein today -- that of a woman whose life was destroyed in a smear campaign after alleging rape at an MGM party in 1937. David Stenn investigated for Vanity Fair in 2003. | 
