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Microsoft Network is off and running, at least for now. With just over two weeks to go before the release of the company's controversial Windows 95 program, the Justice Department announced it won't finish itsanti-trust investigationbefore the Aug. 24 launch date. The department says the probe will continue...
...Senate hearing into Whitewater enters its third week, probers hope to show that the Clintons were obsessed with preventing their tax records and other financial information from falling into unfriendly hands. At the time hardly anyone knew about Whitewater or Hillary Clinton's lucrative commodities trades, and no federal probe of the Clintons' finances was under way. Republicans believe they can embarrass the White House if they can prove--or even assert--that Thomases and the Clintons wanted it to stay that way. Combative, self-important and funny, Thomases, 51, met the Clintons in the 1970s and served as their...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified behind closed Ethics Committee doors for three hours about the propriety of his controversial book deal. Afterward, the senior Democrat on the committee accused the panel of botching the probe by refusing to conduct a full-fledged formal investigation with subpoena powers and outside counsel...
Headed by New York's Alfonse D'Amato, a special Senate committee launched yet another investigation into the Clintons' Whitewater financial dealings, a probe Republicans hope will prove politically bruising to the Administration. The initial focus of the hearings -- the handling of documents in deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office by White House aides after Foster's suicide -- broke little new ground. On Saturday the Clintons gave depositions on Whitewater for the second time to independent counsel Kenneth Starr...
...internal CIA probe has concluded that the agency engaged ina cover-up over the deaths of an American and a rebel commander in Guatemala, according to reports in The New York Times and by the Associated Press. An investigation by Frederick P. Hitz, the CIA's inspector general blames the agency for not sharing important information about the killing of American innkeeper Michael DeVine in June 1990 and the March 1992 disappearance of Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, the husband of American lawyer Jennifer Harbury, with U.S. administration officials and Congress. President Clinton ordered the internal investigation in March 30 after allegations...