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...with the victims' families, he sounded as if he were seriously considering the request. The decision, Justice Department officials report, will not be made until later this week, after Ashcroft has had a chance to meet with more family members and law enforcement officials familiar with the case. DOJ insiders predict that barring some unforeseen discovery, Ashcroft will allow the closed-circuit broadcast...
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington last week blasted FBI Director LOUIS FREEH and JOHN ASHCROFT'S Justice Department over a new wrinkle in the probe of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. After DOJ decided to yank the investigation from outgoing U.S. Attorney WILMA LEWIS and give it to prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lewis steamed that the move was "the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands...
...steaming response to a decision by DOJ officials to yank the probe from her office and give it to prosecutors in Virginia, U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis said the action was "not only ill-conceived and ill-considered, but is the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands as to how the case should be prosecuted...
...When Weinig petitioned DOJ for a commuted sentenced last April, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of New York - whose office also indicted Rich - objected. Justice pardon attorney Roger Adams agreed, and so did Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who sent a formal memorandum to White House counsel Beth Nolan with the department's negative views...
...Ross was the first target. In July, 1995, an Israeli foreign ministry official gave him a briefing paper asking the State Department to weigh in with DOJ. Ross responded later that summer: he decided not to get involved in the issue...