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...Reno's Poker Face The Attorney General has one day to decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of White House dollar dialing. If only Louis Freeh would leave her alone...
...Once you appoint the right people who are dedicated, self correcting, etc., everything else is secondary," Simon says. "It's only when you make a mistake that you have problems...
When people "don't really want to do anything serious [they] appoint a commission to study the problem," McCarthy said...
Alarmists in the newsroom feared that Willes, an economist by training, might appoint himself editor. Instead he anointed the respected (and reassuringly rumpled) Michael Parks, the paper's 53-year-old managing editor (and a Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent). Coffey tried to put on a good face, saying he needed "a breather" after an eight-year run that included the O.J. Simpson trial, fires, floods, racial tensions inside and outside the newsroom--and four Pulitzers. But his goodbye statement spoke volumes: "There's a season for everything," he said, "and mine here has ended--happily, proudly, in midstride...
Whether or not there is evidence of wrongdoing on the videotapes, their belated discovery is certain to anger top federal investigators, who were unaware that the tapes existed at all, and will add to the pressure on Reno to appoint an independent counsel. All materials related to the coffees, which would seem implicitly to include any videotapes of the events, were subpoenaed earlier this year by the Justice Department and two congressional panels. The tapes represent the first major batch of new material released by the White House to investigators since the spring...