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WASHINGTON: Fittingly, the hearings began with a rerun. Janet Reno was shown a 1993 recording of herself defending the independent counsel law because "there is an inherent conflict whenever senior executive branch officials are to be investigated by the Department of Justice...
...mixing high-level meetings and goodwill visits to slums with as many plugs as possible for the fast-track trade-agreement powers he is seeking from Congress. Then he finds himself in an impromptu Air Force One press briefing on campaign finance, assuring us he will offer himself to Janet Reno for questioning. As if all this wasn't enough, Clinton now has to decide exactly how he is going to use his line-item veto pencil on the $248 billion Defense Appropriations bill...
WASHINGTON: The last thing Janet Reno wanted to do was shut down the Justice Department?s probe into Bill Clinton's fund-raising activities a day before she was scheduled to be grilled on the investigation by a ravenous congressional panel. Instead, the attorney general bought herself more time with the request that the FBI's look into Clinton's campaign books be extended until December 3. The move came even though many Justice officials were skeptical that they had found enough evidence to suggest Clinton had in fact done anything illegal...
Either way, the tapes will surely complicate the questions facing Attorney General Janet Reno, who has been trying to decide for weeks whether the President and the Vice President broke federal fund-raising laws. It will not make things easier for Reno that the release of the tapes to investigators came just hours after she had informed House Republicans that Clinton's White House coffees "involve mere access to the President" and therefore needed no further investigation. At the same time that she was issuing her statement last Friday, Reno extended by 60 days her probe of Vice President...
...Janet Reno says she's mad. At the White House, for making her look incompetent over those belated videotapes. Undoubtedly at the Senate and House, where Fred Thompson and Dan Burton devote a little of their committee hearings each day to howlings for her head...