Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this time it wasn't instantly rejected. Gingrich had just returned from China and was on a bit of a roll; plus, as a man who gets inspirations the way other men get coffee, he began hearing from an unlikely trio of political muses. The first was Janet Reno, who, by opting not to name an independent counsel in the fund-raising scandal, gave Newt a better chance to take the moral high ground. The second was his mother, who told him Monday to get on with his life. And then there was golf champion Tiger Woods, who, Gingrich told...
...June. "The President should know," he insisted. That led to a highly unusual public statement by the FBI contradicting the President and insisting that the agents had never demanded that the aides keep their own superiors in the dark. By midweek the issue appeared settled. Attorney General Janet Reno said it had all been a misunderstanding between the briefers and the briefed over just how closely the information was to be held...
...Justice Department lawyer Seth P. Waxman '73, yesterday, urging the Supreme Court to uphold the 1996 Communications Decency Act in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union...
...that now. But I think it's very important that as you make these allegations and as you portray them in television or on your headlines, you try to clarify just what the issues are." Then she proceeded to read the "significant" passages aloud in an effort, a Reno aide later explained, to say, "There is no crime here." Or at least not so far. "The plain fact of the matter," the aide says, "is that Congress changed this law and made it very easy to do a lot of fund raising at those buildings...
...after a week in which nearly everyone repented but no one confessed, things seemed to be returning to normal. A new independent counsel was, for the moment, a distant prospect. Janet Reno was content to let her own task force of 25 lawyers and FBI agents look into whether foreign money was funneled illegally into either party's coffers last year. "When the independent-counsel statute is triggered," Reno said once more, "I will take appropriate action." Even Kenneth Starr, the once and future Pepperdine law-school dean, was back in Little Rock, Arkansas, working an old angle: trying...