Word: reno
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Attorney General Janet Reno won the award last year...
That doesn't mean Congress, though, with its sheaf of documentation in tow, will be any less intent on nailing both the Clinton administration (for unpatriotic negligence) and the Chinese (for -- gasp -- espionage!). Janet Reno, no stranger to calls for her resignation, looks likelier than ever to take the fall for denying the FBI a wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. And China's Most Favored Nation status, up for renewal by Congress in June, could finally go down as well. (Though, as Beijing correctly points out -- while denying all charges -- the U.S. couldn't have gotten...
...suit--unveiled by Attorney General Janet Reno and antitrust chief Joel Klein--was the first to target alleged abuses at so-called fortress hub airports created by carriers like American after Congress deregulated the airlines in 1978. While consumer advocates welcomed the suit, legal experts said it would be tough for Justice to prove predatory pricing. "We didn't undercut," argues American spokesman Chris Chiames. "We matched fares set by others and added seats when the demand went...
...committee's star witness, former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock, on Sunday warned that this was the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs. And if the new "Who lost China?" campaign is to have its own Alger Hiss, the prime candidate appears to be Attorney General Janet Reno. Even liberal New Jersey Democratic senator Robert Torricelli Sunday joined the Republican chorus calling for Reno's resignation, on charges that she failed to authorize an FBI wiretap of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, suspected of passing nuclear secrets to Beijing...
...question here is whether the FBI presented the Justice Department with sufficient evidence to justify a wiretap," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "If Justice turned a blind eye for political reasons, then Reno should be prosecuted. But rather than comparing it with the Rosenbergs, some people are calling this nuclear espionage's Richard Jewell case -- asking why, if Wen Ho Lee is so bad, we don't have enough to arrest the guy." Months of leaks from the Cox committee's classified report alleging nuclear negligence have prepared Washington to expect a damning indictment of the Clinton administration...