Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reno's Poker Face The Attorney General has one day to decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of White House dollar dialing. If only Louis Freeh would leave her alone...
WASHINGTON: The deadline is Tuesday, and absolutely no one expects Janet Reno to send an independent counsel to look into White House dollar-dialing. Not that you would hear that from the Attorney General herself. "Reno really enjoys torturing the press," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "She loves to be perverse and spring things on us. But as far I know, she's still determined to keep the investigation at Justice...
...Before calling for an appointment, Reno needs more than what she calls "the great blob": the cloud of apparent improprieties over the '96 Clinton Gore re-election drive which, though bearing the odor of scandal, lacks solid evidence of any one criminal...
...Even most Republicans seem to agree with that. But they see in the dollar-dialing issue what FBI Chief Louis Freeh sees: a legal excuse to keep digging. Freeh's first love is the trail; Reno's is the Constitution and its promise of the protection of individual rights...
...Tuesday, Janet Reno is expected to decline an independent counsel for Gore's White House phone calls ? which means that Gore can show up in Kyoto with nothing to answer for to except greenhouse gases. "The U.S. position is relatively firm; Gore will tell the Europeans that it's better than nothing," says Branegan. "The environment is his issue; if he can bring a deal back home, he can make headlines in a positive light." For the tainted Gore, that is an opportunity not to be missed...