Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Still, Reno wouldn't be pushed by political considerations. She weighed the evidence against Rahman, including tapes of his followers accused in the bomb plot, and decided it wasn't enough. Besides, agents might learn more by keeping the militant cleric under surveillance. But then, on Thursday morning, Reno got a phone call...
...Attorney Mary Jo White, who was tracking the case in New York, told Reno that the sheik seemed to be trying to wriggle out of the net. He and his followers had left his apartment the night before and sped away in their car, nearly losing the FBI agents following behind. The effort to flee finally provided Reno with a legal justification. She gave the O.K. for immigration agents to apprehend the sheik and told her top aides Webb Hubbell and Phil Heymann to work out the legal details...
...White House has its Situation Room, the Pentagon its walls full of maps, but America's command center for fighting unconventional wars these days is Janet Reno's inner office. First it was the showdown with David Koresh in Waco, Texas, a biblical battle over lost souls; two weeks ago, it was terrorism, when she laid out for President Clinton the case against Iraq for plotting to kill former President Bush and tracked the serial bomber who wounded professors in Connecticut and California. Last week it was Sheik Rahman, when once again Reno's agents from...
...hour day gives way to the next, Reno can't afford to wait for the fires to die down so she can do the job she dreams of. Still fresh to her office, she is already plotting a revolution in law enforcement, in how America thinks about crime and punishment and how to have less of both. She wants the Justice Department to be clean and bold and free of expedient compromise. She wants government agencies to start talking to each other about how to address the root causes of crime. Above all, she wants to talk about children, about...
...Clinton and his soldiers have learned anything, it is that change comes in droplets, squeezed out like lifeblood. Reno came late to Washington, a third-choice candidate without a long-standing friendship with the President or his wife, without national stature, but with natural allies. She came alone, moved into an apartment furnished right down to the ironing board and the coffeepot, and set to work on an experiment in alchemy. But will it work? Will the most celebrated Cabinet member to storm the capital in years be able to turn raw personal popularity into hard political power...