Word: gore
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...instinct in her blood. That could explain what it was that got her last week to jump-start her department's investigation of campaign fund raising: sheer fury at being scooped. Earlier this month she read in the Washington Post that $120,000 in "soft money" solicited by Al Gore for general party activities last year had somehow found its way into "hard money" accounts that financed individual campaigns. Reno was outraged that reporters had uncovered this potential crime by using public records, papers her own Justice Department investigators possessed but somehow had not finished combing through. Determined...
Reno had already launched a 30-day review to determine whether to ask for an independent counsel to investigate Gore. All by themselves, these developments would have moved the desultory Democratic fund-raising scandal out of the summer doldrums. But Reno has started moving on to the biggest target of all. Government sources told TIME that late last week the embattled Attorney General launched an inquiry centered on the President himself. Prompted by a task-force analysis that found the President's own telephone calls may have raised funds that ended up in proscribed "hard money" accounts, Reno opened...
...forward. After that, if questions of fact or law remain, Reno will have no choice but to apply to a special three-judge panel for the appointment of an independent counsel. Reno has already made public the fact that she has started the 30-day clock ticking against Gore. The Vice President last week hired two lawyers, former Watergate prosecutors James Neal and George Frampton. The move comes just in time. Justice's 30-day deadline on the Gore review falls next week...
...bought her car at list price so no one could say she got a special deal. It's harder still for a woman who has never been a favorite in Clinton's White House, and not just because she has a personal manner so impassive it makes Al Gore look like Jim Carrey. From her first months in the Administration, when she took responsibility for the tragedy at Waco, Texas, that her boss seemed to dodge, Clinton loyalists have complained that Reno had a way of burnishing her own reputation at the expense of the President's. One can imagine...
What prompted Reno to act was an analysis from the Justice-FBI campaign task force that landed on her desk in the second week of September. Alerted by the Post story on Gore's telephone solicitations, the task force decided to compare Clinton's phone logs with "call sheets"--memos drawn up by the Democratic National Committee to suggest telephone talking points with donors--and records of the Federal Election Commission that show where the money went. It discovered about a dozen links that look suspicious: call sheets preceding donations that landed partly in hard accounts. Staff members...