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...Mysterious Louis Freeh Dan Burton hoped his campaign finance hearings would air a split between Janet Reno and Louis Freeh. Instead, he got a fully supportive Freeh -- at least in public. Full Story...
WASHINGTON: Dan Burton wanted a cage match on Capitol Hill: Janet Reno versus Louis Freeh. Instead he got musical chairs...
...Republican-led House Oversight committee had scheduled the pair to testify separately, hoping to draw out Freeh's support of an independent counsel. But Freeh was determined to present a united front; he wanted to sit at Reno's side. So, Democrats introduced a resolution to that effect; it was defeated. Freeh settled for a seat behind Reno, at her elbow (at least they'd be pictured together.) And loyally waited ? for six-and-a-half hours ? while his counterpart testified. Observed TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon: "Aides were dropping like flies...
...When Reno finally left the stand, Freeh artfully deflected pointed questions about his reported unhappiness with Reno and her Justice-led probe. Of course, had the FBI chief wanted a united front, he might have started earlier. Shannon points out that the Reno-Freeh split went public on reports from Freeh's own aides. "And he's very much in control ? not the type to have genuine leaks...
...director LOUIS FREEH tried hard to talk Attorney General JANET RENO out of closing the criminal investigation into fund-raising telephone calls by President Clinton and Vice President Gore--but not because he believes that either could ever be prosecuted for soliciting money from the White House. Freeh's fear, according to knowledgeable federal sources, is that once the investigation is closed, FBI agents will be hamstrung in their ability to pursue other, potentially more serious questions about fund-raising activities by Clinton or Gore. Justice lawyers have insisted that FBI agents cannot fish around in the affairs of high...