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Back when a certain intern was still a junior at Lewis and Clark College, the Whitewater scandal broke. Attorney General JANET RENO was authorized to appoint a special counsel...
...alternative, if the statute is junked, is the existing law allowing the Attorney General to appoint special prosecutors in rare instances; they have marginally less independence but have worked well in the past. Leon Jaworski was the Watergate special prosecutor after Cox. "Archibald Cox got fired, yes, but there was a hue and cry, and Leon Jaworski was appointed almost immediately," says Jim Cole of the A.B.A. task force. "He had all the power he needed and was bulletproof." Besides, few can believe that politics is absent from the process now. Seven of the 11 judges who have served...
...factly instructs Moses: "Ascend these heights of Abarim...and view the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites as their holding." When Moses has seen the Promised Land, God says, he will perish. Moses immediately acquiesces: "Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone [else] over the community." His later recollection in Deuteronomy, however, is "I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying...'Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan, that good hill country, and the Lebanon.' But the Lord...said...
...GORE Janet Reno declines to appoint an independent counsel. Time to make calls about cash...
...Clinton obviously wants to avoid another independent counsel -- if he were to evade interviews, he'd just be increasing the likelihood that Reno would appoint one." And how great is that likelihood? With a month still left on the 90-day clock Reno started on September 8, Shannon says even the attorney general doesn't know yet. "She has a history of going down to the wire." But with Republican appetites for scandal considerably curbed of late, Clinton knows that this time around, with these investigators, ignorance of the law could well be all the excuse he needs...