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Quotes About Investigation

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...
~ Bob Dylan
The P'lice Department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith. They got him on conspiracy, they were never quite sure who with.
~ Bob Dylan
Mac picked up a small saw and began cutting. The pathologist made a whimpering sound, like an artist who'd just seen someone take a can of spray paint to his masterpiece. "Yep," Mac said, holding up something small and bloody in his hands. "A transmitter.
~ Bob Mayer
We killed the sonofabitch," Roland said. "But then he just disappeared from the body bag." He didn't add that Neeley had kissed him, but his face flushed red at the memory. "So that's two people disappearing," Scout said. "Ivar and the sonofabitch.
~ Bob Mayer
The next month the Senate voted 77–0 to set up the Watergate committee. The unanimity was almost unheard of. Even Republicans smelled something.
~ Bob Woodward
The reporter had to set his or her own course, had to push back against editors at times, to roam and be free to explore, to defy the conventional wisdom if necessary. It meant the reporters, whatever they covered, had to find the bookkeepers and the Deep Throats if possible. At the same time, as we had just been reminded, reporters need editors. In the end we are collaborators and they make the final calls.
~ Bob Woodward
The major problem might be allegations of obstructing justice by urging Comey to drop the Flynn investigation, and then firing Comey. But Dowd believed that the president's Article II constitutional authority clearly encompassed firing an FBI director.
~ Bob Woodward
talking in elegant paragraphs. He also had a
~ Bob Woodward
at 6:03 a.m., Trump had tweeted: "Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign—'quietly working to boost Clinton.' So where is the investigation A.G. [attorney general]" It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said.
~ Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward
~ Wilber Ross
was apparent the president was aware of the criticism he was receiving about his handling of the coronavirus. After surviving the 22-month-long Mueller investigation and the third impeachment trial in United States history, the real dynamite behind the door was the virus. The lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans hung in the balance with every decision he made in dealing with the coronavirus.
~ Bob Woodward
Bob Woodward
~ Kash Patel.
Bob Woodward
~ Republicans
he referred to Project Blue Book as going from the investigation of the unexplained to the "explanation of the uninvestigated.
~ Brad Meltzer
This is a case without a body. The body does not come into it at all.
~ Sylvia Plath
Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.
~ T.S. Eliot
drawing another chorus of groans. "Bondurant won't talk to us, and I don't like that. He told
~ Tami Hoag
Because you told me once that the difference between a columnist and a reporter is that the columnist has the luxury to not only ask why but to try and answer it.
~ Tanya Huff
If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.
~ Tariq Ramadan
criminalist
~ Ted Bell
Let your curiosity run away with you. Know that beyond every ordinary explanation there is a deeper and more exciting discovery to be made.
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
Now they are questioning [Evans's] credibility, and the credibility of the detective who was investigating the case. When you're the D.A., you'd better be dotting your I's and crossing your T's. You don't want something like this coming."
~ Julie Rendelman
Client reports. Jack was a private detective." "I don't understand." "I'm— uh— a ghostwriter.
~ Julie Smith
It's ridiculous! What kind of detectives can't find a missing elephant?
~ June Doolittle