Word: freeh
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...intentionally attempted to evade federal election laws by manipulating "issue advocacy" ads funded by the national Democratic Party or state parties into hard-sell vote-for-Clinton-Gore messages. Why is this significant? Because throughout the year, Reno has been able to ignore the entreaties of FBI Director LOUIS FREEH, Justice campaign task-force chief CHARLES LABELLA, Common Cause and Republican leaders because, she has said, the case did not meet the independent-counsel law's test that there be "specific and credible charges" about the President or some other high official. While the FEC audit contains "no smoking guns...
...this significant? Because throughout the year, Reno has been able to ignore the entreaties of FBI director Louis Freeh, Justice campaign task-force chief Charles Labella, Common Cause and Republican leaders because, she has said, the case did not meet the independent-counsel law's test that there be "specific and credible charges" about the President or some other high official. While the FEC audit contains "no smoking guns, no great revelations," says a a lawyer familiar with the case, "the Justice Department bases its interpretation of the law on what the FEC says, and once they say something...
...That's hardly conclusive evidence, but it may be enough to tip the balance in the DOJ's bitter civil war over whether to call for a campaign-finance independent counsel. Repeated calls for a probe from Louis Freeh and prosecutor Charles La Bella have so far gone unheeded by Janet Reno; according to a report in Thursday's New York Times, however, the A-G is beginning to swing. Reno has until the end of August to order a 90-day preliminary inquiry into the allegations against Gore. That's just enough time to give Al a nice "welcome...
WASHINGTON: The bullying of the attorney general continues. GOP hammer Dan Burton wants Janet Reno to appoint an independent counsel to tackle Clinton/Gore campaign finance allegations. Failing that, he's asked that the administration turn over two memos to Reno (one by FBI chief Louis Freeh and one by prosecutor Charles LaBella, both of whom agree with Burton). But Reno, says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon, isn't about to do either -- even if Burton's committee votes Thursday to hold her in contempt...
...side was Radek, who advised against an outside counsel. On the other was LaBella, who said Radek's legal reasoning amounted to "pablum." Last Tuesday, before her announcement, Reno tried some shuttle diplomacy. She took a hard-to-miss walk across Pennsylvania Avenue to FBI headquarters, both to consult Freeh and to be seen consulting him. And Reno was careful to say a few hours later that the investigation proceeds. Just where it will lead has a lot to do with whether Labella pushes Radek aside--and whether Reno lets...