Word: freeh
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...Wednesday Reno sent U.S. marshals across the road to seize evidence from FBI headquarters, in a high-profile slap-down of the bureau over its handling of Waco evidence. The New York Times reported Friday that tensions between the attorney general and FBI director Louis Freeh ?- which have been mounting since he publicly second-guessed her on the issue of opening independent counsel investigations into campaign finance and nuclear espionage ?- had reached a breaking point over Waco. Reno?s anger is understandable: After staking her credibility on a version of events at Waco which denied that federal agents had fired...
...Reno hurried to get the official ducks back in a row. "The important thing is to keep going until you get to the truth," she told reporters ?- and it?s apparently just as important that the next definitive version come out of her office. Reno and FBI chief Louis Freeh have ordered one of those famous "internal investigations" and promise fresh answers within only a few weeks. The conspiracy machine, naturally, isn?t waiting. James B. Francis, the chairman of the Texas Department of Public Safety, wants to know what the Army's secret Delta Force antiterrorism squad was doing...
...campaign-finance-task-force chief Charles LaBella would be on it. Republicans regularly bludgeon Reno for rejecting LaBella's call for an independent counsel to follow the trail of alleged campaign violations into President Clinton's inner circle. Next week LaBella returns to Washington in triumph. FBI director Louis Freeh is staging an invitation-only ceremony at which he intends to bestow upon LaBella a "Director's Award for Excellence...
Some at Justice and on the Hill regard Freeh's move as a taunt at Reno, who's resented by senior FBI executives as too solicitous of the White House. There's speculation that the LaBella award is a classic Freeh maneuver, a signal to the G.O.P. majority in Congress that Freeh is no Clinton-Gore lackey and would be a good fit in, say, a George W. Bush Administration. "Freeh is widely seen by the Democrats as grandstanding and being far too political for that job," says a congressional Democratic staff member. But Freeh associates insist...
...nothing the Administration does now is likely to repair damage already done. Why didn't the FBI and DOE monitor computer activity at Los Alamos more closely? Why did the Justice Department turn down the FBI's appeal for help? Freeh and former Energy Secretaries Pena and Hazel O'Leary are certain to be targets of the Cox panel's probe...