Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sept. 22, Attorney General Janet Reno made the long-overdue decision to sue eight major cigarette manufacturers, alleging fraudulent and deceptive activities that include conducting biased research, intentionally concealing data showing that nicotine is addictive and suppressing the development of safer cigarettes in violation of federal anti-racketeering...
...apparently, a legal one. And so we go again, around and around, for the umpteenth time in the last six-plus years. Janet Reno stands behind the President, assuring him he needn?t play ball. Republicans seethe and look for a way in, a way to finally make Clinton pay for all the vileness he represents to them. "This committee is a bipartisan committee that's not going to be stiffed," said Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) of his Senate version of the investigation. "Frankly, we're just sick and tired of it." They are coming for Clinton...
However, she has other things to worry about. Representative Dan Burton's Committee on Government Reform (which has always favored Freeh over Reno) was sending out subpoenas and watching the new tapes for signs of illegal involvement by "observers" from the Army's supersecret Delta Force. Led by chief investigative counsel Jim Wilson, the committee seems to be on the verge of starting up a fresh probe...
...move against Freeh since the debacle erupted two weeks ago. He had started his own damage control early, making public the memos that confirmed the use of hot grenades, naming 40 agents to gather the facts and proposing that a reputable outsider head the new investigation. The extremely deliberate Reno would accede to all that later but seemed to be plodding two steps behind the nimbler FBI director. It wasn't the first time Freeh rushed to stake claim on the moral high ground. Reno's supporters say she deserved better...
...There are a lot of legitimate questions," says Tron Brekke, an FBI spokesman. Some of the FBI's own: What exactly did HRT commander Dick Rogers understand about his latitude to make operational decisions without seeking clearance from FBI headquarters or from Reno? And why didn't FBI lawyers alert Freeh and Reno when, in February 1996, they received a memo from Quantico reporting that HRT operators had sought and received permission to attempt to gas the concrete bunker with military rounds that had "the potential for causing a fire"? And did conflicts within the federal team at Waco play...