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...launched too early in the day and landed too far away to cause the fires. But, she added, "I did not want those [hot grenades] used. I asked for and received assurances that they were not incendiary." She confessed the news did not help her credibility and promised another probe, most likely overseen by an outside legal expert, into a controversy she thought she had put behind her. "She is not a person who screams or throws things," says a Justice Department official, "but she is doing the functional equivalent of throwing a Ming vase...
Hell hath no fury like an attorney general misled. Janet Reno on Friday announced that she?s looking for an independent investigator to probe the Waco debacle, capping a week in which she?s done little to hide her displeasure at being left in a no-man?s-land by the FBI. On Wednesday Reno sent U.S. marshals across the road to seize evidence from FBI headquarters, in a high-profile slap-down of the bureau over its handling of Waco evidence. The New York Times reported Friday that tensions between the attorney general and FBI director Louis Freeh ?- which...
Just whom can you trust in Moscow these days? That's the challenge facing U.S. officials probing an alleged money-laundering scandal in which $15 billion is said to have been funneled out of Russia through the staid Bank of New York. Members of the investigating task force were reported Wednesday to be reluctant to share information with their Russian colleagues, for fear that such information would find its way quickly into the hands of the targets of the probe. "The concern here is not that individual criminals have bought off individual law enforcement officials, but rather that the police...
...compensatory time off if more than 40 hours are worked, has somehow never been enforced by Justice at Justice. The agency claims that overtime pay would be simply un-lawyerly (not to mention quite costly). But as life at Justice gets more and more complicated in the probe-everybody era, the assistant deputy attorneys general of the world want their money. And they?ve got the memos to make a case...
BRUCE BABBITT Interior Secretary not indicted after casino probe. So lucky, he should celebrate in Vegas...