Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...darker side of Gore's world. It was Knight, the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1996, who prepared many of the "call sheets" that Gore worked from when dialing for dollars. Now, after Attorney General Janet Reno has begun a preliminary review of those calls under the independent-counsel law, government sources tell TIME that Justice is also probing Knight's multilayered connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in federal contracts and regulatory breaks from the Clinton Administration while the firm and its officers raised or gave a total of $132,000 for the President...
...Then of course there was Janet Reno, now officially the most cautious human being on the planet. Perhaps fearful that the sky would fall on her head, Ms. Reno notched up a couple more missed opportunities to appoint an independent counsel in the campaign finance conundrum. What could the Justice chief be waiting for ? judgment...
...investigation of Hazel O'Leary is bringing Janet Reno closer to appointing an independent counsel (TIME Daily...
...Which is all something of a yawn ? except that on Nov. 20, Reno can enlarge the preliminary investigation of O'Leary into a large-scale shakedown of Democratic abuses. This would allow Republicans to hear the magic words "independent counsel" ? all the while keeping O'Leary as the probe's nominal target. That, as TIME's Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf points out, would be the attorney general's perfect compromise: mollifying opponents of the Clinton-Gore machine without giving her White House bosses a pair of black eyes...
While Reno isn't budging on the independent counsel issue, the Attorney General is increasingly dissatisfied with the slow pace of her task force. Sources tell TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon that while the task force targets the least significant players in the scandal, Reno sides with the FBI's push for a "more muscular" approach...