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...Secret Service has certainly taken note. Legal wrangling has begun over their right to resist Starr?s subpoenas ? on the grounds that breaking their code of silence makes it hard to protect the First Family. While Janet Reno mulled the matter over, President Clinton?s supporters pounced on the agency?s crisis of confidence. ?This is a further example of desperate and apparently irresponsible tactics by Mr. Starr,? said Lanny Davis, former White House special legal counsel...
...Should the Secret Service be forced to testify against the man they are sworn to protect? Starr has subpoenaed one retired and one current member of the President?s bodyguard, one day after former agent Lewis Fox claimed to have seen Clinton and Lewinsky in the Oval Office together. Janet Reno confirmed that subpoenas have been issued, but said the Administration hadn't decided whether to fight them. It?s certainly no secret that the Treasury Department (which is in charge of the Secret Service) dislikes attacks on its agents? historical reticence. If they are dragged into court, there...
Criticism of Starr's role in the Lewinsky affair begins with his entry into it. He got the authority from Attorney General Janet Reno and a three-judge panel to expand his jurisdiction, but not until days after he had wired Linda Tripp to tape Lewinsky. Starr's defenders say he was simply pursuing a credible lead that walked in the door. "There's a pretty decent argument it's related to what he's already doing," says John Barrett, who was an attorney in the Iran-contra probe of Lawrence Walsh. But to Starr's critics, the wiring...
...Lewinsky meets again with Tripp at the Ritz-Carlton, but is ambushed. Janet Reno and a three-judge panel have expanded Starr's investigation. His men swoop down on Lewinsky. Carter files the affidavit. Lewinsky fires Carter...
Earlier, Kaczynski had offered to plead guilty only if he were not placed in a prison psychiatric facility and if he retained the right to appeal the FBI's search of his cabin. Now he and his lawyers dropped those conditions. The prosecutors consulted with Attorney General Janet Reno in Washington and with Kaczynski's victims and their families. All agreed that a certain life sentence was preferable to the risks and delays of a jury trial...