11.   Last Thursday, the congressional panel probing charges that Samper knowingly took drug money for his presidential campaign from the notorious Cali cartel finished its investigation.

12.   Republicans who control Congress immediately called for the appointment of an independent counsel to probe the charges but the Justice Department said it saw no need for additional investigators.

13.   The Bar Council said Attorney General Mohtar Abdullah should probe the charges in the anonymous circular, rather than just trying to find its writer.