Word: counsels
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Reno had already launched a 30-day review to determine whether to ask for an independent counsel to investigate Gore. All by themselves, these developments would have moved the desultory Democratic fund-raising scandal out of the summer doldrums. But Reno has started moving on to the biggest target of all. Government sources told TIME that late last week the embattled Attorney General launched an inquiry centered on the President himself. Prompted by a task-force analysis that found the President's own telephone calls may have raised funds that ended up in proscribed "hard money" accounts, Reno opened...
...they were getting so many requests from Justice for presidential phone records. Finally, sometime after 6 p.m. on Friday, David Kendall, one of Clinton's personal attorneys, phoned Reno's office and learned that the Attorney General had indeed taken the fateful step. Kendall then called White House counsel Charles Ruff. On Saturday afternoon, after TIME called for comment, the White House publicly confirmed the inquiry and promised its cooperation, adding, "We are confident that no laws were broken...
...probe has dismissed the possibility of criminal conduct. If it hasn't, a 90-day preliminary inquiry must go forward. After that, if questions of fact or law remain, Reno will have no choice but to apply to a special three-judge panel for the appointment of an independent counsel. Reno has already made public the fact that she has started the 30-day clock ticking against Gore. The Vice President last week hired two lawyers, former Watergate prosecutors James Neal and George Frampton. The move comes just in time. Justice's 30-day deadline on the Gore review falls...
...Clinton, the mere prospect of an investigation means a serious deepening of his permanent state of legal siege. If Reno eventually calls for an independent counsel, this one would be the first to investigate Clinton himself, not just a member of his Cabinet or a wide-ranging mess like Whitewater that may or may not center on him. And unlike the Whitewater probe, with its endless sifting of a land deal that started in the days of sideburns and bell-bottoms, this one would be investigating actions that Clinton undertook while President...
...only because it was hard to believe she would betray her principles to shield a President to whom she didn't seem much attached. But her public vote of no confidence in her task force's probe makes it harder now for her to argue that a special counsel isn't necessary, despite her latest effort to whip the team into shape. Washington was surprised in March when Reno chose Laura Ingersoll, a lower-echelon prosecutor in the department's public-integrity section, to head the politically sensitive investigation. From the start there were tensions between Ingersoll...