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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...
...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 Al Gore's dialing-for-dollars on federal property, and she must decide next week whether to continue the separate probe, now under way, into the President's phone calls from the White House to donors...
...fact that neither Reno nor her investigators viewed the tapes before dismissing the matter could make it even harder for the Attorney General to avoid seeking an independent counsel to investigate the entire fund-raising mess. The Justice Department has already been faulted for overlooking evidence during its probe of almost a year--evidence that was readily available to reporters...
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NASA delays the launch of the Cassini space probe, the plutonium-powered spacecraft that has been mired in controversy (TIME Daily...