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...says, "I'm sick, I'm tired and I'm armed too." The one-liners hardly rule the show, and after his quota is filled, Eastwood really gets into character, leaving nothing to be desired. He makes a good connection with the other two lead roles, those of Agent Lily Rains (Rene Russo) and the would be assassin, a man known first as "Booth" because of his obsession with Presidential assassinations...
...hired former FBI agent James A. Ring, now an investigator for her former law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart, to interview guards. Guards, in general, liked Ring's independent status, and many thought the issue would finally be resolved...
Ever since she took her job, Janet Reno has suffered from having a lame duck on her team. A noisy, balky one. The head of the FBI, William Sessions, has been discredited in the job and has lost the confidence of his agents, but refuses to leave. Reno has met with Sessions several times in the past few weeks, apparently to show him the door, but without immediate success. And President Clinton, who is the only one who can fire the FBI director, has not done so. As a result, morale among FBI agents has plummeted at a time when...
...White House has stepped up its search for a successor. One of the top candidates is Louis Freeh, a federal judge in New York. Freeh, a former FBI agent who later prosecuted the "pizza connection" heroin ring, is seen as a popular choice because of his experience with the agency. Another candidate is Lee Colwell, a former FBI official and current Clinton adviser who lives in Little Rock. No quick replacement is at hand, however, because the confirmation could take months, especially since the Senate will be tied up with the confirmation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Supreme Court...
...soon enough for FBI agents. Even top officials on the agency's seventh floor have given Sessions the freeze-out. "It's so cold up there you can hang meat," said one agent. He's no help outside the building either, alumni agents contend. Says former senior bureau official Tom Kelley: "He is dragging down the reputation of the organization every day he stays there." You wouldn't have to be an FBI agent to get the hint...