1.   It also calls for more funding and civilian staff to aid in monitoring and investigating abuses.

2.   The drumbeat for an appointment of an independent counsel to investigate alleged abuses in campaign financing will almost certainly escalate.

3.   He promised a moral renewal in political leadership and pledged himself to root out state corruption, to combat drug trafficking and to investigate human rights abuses.

4.   And he investigated human rights abuses of Kurds in Iraq.

5.   At the meeting, the cardinals developed preliminary guidelines for a unified policy of investigating sexual abuse by the clergy.

6.   At the time, Madrazo was president of the National Human Rights Commission, investigating abuses by the army and police.

7.   A spokesman for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that investigates abuses, said more recent statistics are unavailable.

8.   After his dismissal, Nkubito became a director of the Bank of Kigali, but devoted much of his energies to investigating human rights abuses.

9.   But he is testing it daily as he investigates human rights abuses by the army and urges commanders not to arrest someone without sufficient evidence.

10.   But Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, head of the committee charged with investigating fund-raising abuses, should ask these questions.