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...height of her distress, Gasior found a sympathetic ear in Congress. Struck by her story, Rose, who had been tracking BNL, asked her to testify before his subcommittee. "Marianne is a very brave lady," Rose says, "who had far too large a conscience to work in corporate America and too much conscience, for sure, to work for Kennametal...
...While Gasior's testimony in August 1991 received wide media coverage, there still was little follow-up. She was, however, invited to testify before an Atlanta grand jury. From Gasior's point of view, her second experience with the Justice Department was a disaster. She insists that the prosecutor was aggressively hostile and refused to listen to her story. Soon after her appearance, the U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta sent a letter to Kennametal stating that the grand jury found the company blameless...
...Gasior returned home determined to expose not just Kennametal but everyone connected with the military supply of Iraq. For the next year and a half, operating from her dining-room table, she collected documents and evidence. Those documents include internal memorandums from the Justice Department that could prove one of the key allegations of the Iraqgate scandal: that Justice tried to bottle up the investigation. "The issues go beyond Iraqgate," she insists. "Top people in the Justice Department and the Department of Agriculture obstructed justice in this case for political reasons, and they are still there...
Kennametal, meanwhile, has sued Gasior for violating her severance agreement by accusing the company of harassment. The case is scheduled for trial in Latrobe next month. Kennametal continues to insist that its letter from Justice clears the company of all wrongdoing in connection with exports to Iraq, and denies any role in harassing Gasior...
...Gasior, however, has finally managed to bring her evidence to the attention of the highest authorities. Rose was so impressed with her "smoking gun" document that he enlisted Brooks, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, to help set up a meeting with Attorney General Reno. Though Rose and Brooks presented allegations of a Justice Department cover-up, Reno listened impassively -- and it is not clear precisely what, if anything, she may do about it. "I know she's giving it serious consideration," says Rose, who realizes, just as Reno does, that a full-scale investigation could send shock waves through...