Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...block, they look like the sources of gridlock, not activity. Their tepid efforts to devise an alternative package weren't promoted early enough or publicized hard enough. Smaller Republican efforts to play up the White House "Travelgate" scandalette are likely to be both ineffective and counterproductive. Attorney General Janet Reno, who was bypassed in the White House use of a few FBI agents, doesn't seem particularly distressed. And if representatives and senators think every case of political cronyism ought to be investigated, they're not naive--they're hypocritical...
...Reno, say those who know her best, believes in plenty. "Southern liberals are that way because they believe," says her sister. "You weren't a liberal because it was a fad or because you were supposed to. You weren't supposed to. So you did it from profound conviction." The real irony here is that Reno may be the New Democrat that Clinton both avoids and aspires to be. Her heart is big but her solutions are sound; she cares more for results than for labels, for ideas over ideology. If the White House is worried about taking the country...
...understandable absence but irritating to colleagues since it occurred just as crucial decisions were being made to arrest suspects in planned bombing attacks on New York City. The following weekend, as Clinton weighed evidence gathered by the FBI and the CIA in his decision to attack Iraq and as Reno assembled a task force to track down a serial bomber, Sessions went to San Francisco to give a speech on health-care fraud...
Ever since she took her job, Janet Reno has suffered from having a lame duck on her team. A noisy, balky one. The head of the FBI, William Sessions, has been discredited in the job and has lost the confidence of his agents, but refuses to leave. Reno has met with Sessions several times in the past few weeks, apparently to show him the door, but without immediate success. And President Clinton, who is the only one who can fire the FBI director, has not done so. As a result, morale among FBI agents has plummeted at a time when...
...thereby increasing his pension income $5,000 a year. Sessions told Justice officials he would resign once his successor is confirmed by the Senate, a move that would deny his nemesis Clarke a shot at being interim director. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Reno was poker-faced on Sessions even as other members of the Administration were growing weary of trying to persuade him to leave. "I am not negotiating," Reno said. But does she expect a resolution soon? "Yes," she added...