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Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein spared Netanyahu and Hanegbi but said his office had made no decision on Lieberman and was considering an indictment against Deri for extortion, obstruction of justice and fraud. Why Netanyahu got off the legal hook may be partly explained by chief prober Sando Mazor. He conceded in a covering letter that much of the evidence against Netanyahu came from just one "central witness," who, Israeli press reports say, is Dan Avi-Yitzhak. He was a strong candidate for Attorney General and also happened to be Deri's trial lawyer until Deri forced the Bar-On choice...
KENNETH STARR Whitewater prober investigating Clinton while serving tobacco firm investigated by Clinton...
...fact, it was only the possibility of scoring partisan points that tempted Republicans into agreeing to hold hearings now. At a meeting of G.O.P. congressional powers back in March, Iowa Representative Jim Leach, who by then had emerged as his party's leading Whitewater prober, protested that the timing looked all wrong. The hearings, he noted, could delve only into matters that special counsel Robert Fiske had finished investigating. By midsummer that would include only developments in Washington -- not any financial and real estate dealings in Arkansas by Governor Bill Clinton and his wife. Moreover, says someone familiar with...
Stephanopoulos says he was "blowing off steam," but was the President's trusted aide trying to get a potentially pesky Whitewater prober dismissed? Is this obstruction of justice...
...information unearthed reportedly transcends the discoveries of the Tower commission. "People were very careful," says one prober of the Iranscam schemers. "But they left a great paper trail." Some of the most important evidence, however, was not on paper but on computer tape: the White House has provided investigators with much more of the electronic correspondence between former National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his aide, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, that proved so valuable to the Tower commission. These new messages, says a committee member, will be as crucial to explaining the essential mysteries of Iranscam as the White House...