1.   But the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the FBI and used the occasion to drop a legal bombshell.

2.   Legal bombshells dropping near important political events are not new in Washington.

3.   The attorney general said Bush was doing the bidding of the tobacco companies by filing the equivalent of a legal bombshell that could destroy the agreement.

4.   To be sure, the president and Mrs. Clinton could still be stung by a scathing report or legal bombshell from Kenneth Starr, the independent Whitewater counsel.