Word: reno
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Welcome to the NFL. Just as Ashcroft's predecessor, Janet Reno, grappled with the Waco disaster a month after taking the reins, Ashcroft so far has been involved mostly with crisis control. Hanssen was indicted last week after plea negotiations between the feds and his lawyers broke down. The impasse, sources told TIME, was over Ashcroft's insistence on preserving the option to seek the death penalty in the case. That's against the advice of many in the FBI and the intelligence community--among them, the sources say, CIA Director George Tenet, who has personally lobbied Ashcroft several times...
...death penalty defendants were Latino or black. The study also found that a handful of the 94 U.S. Attorneys' offices accounted for 43 percent of the cases recommended for the death penalty. But there's been no word of the further analysis that Clinton and former Attorney General Janet Reno called for, and this week, Garza submitted an additional memo to support his Sept. 2000 clemency petition, asking that his sentence be commuted to life without parole in part because it's still unclear whether racism has played a part in federal sentencing patterns...
...Justice Department spokespersons say that they expect some information about the continuing analysis of the system to be made public in early June. Presumably that would involve material that was requested from federal prosecutors around the country about their death penalty decisionmaking. But the other part of what Reno and Clinton asked for, an outside study to be done by the National Institute for Justice, has not begun and has not even been put out for bid. "You need to go deep and look at the whole way cases get picked for federal prosecution," said David Bruck, an attorney...
...investigating Wen Ho Lee didn't even know that he and his wife had been paid FBI informants a few years earlier. During Louis Freeh's eight-year tenure (he is stepping down next month), the bureau was often at war with the Clinton Justice Department, largely over Janet Reno's hands-off approach to the serial Clinton scandals. Congressional Republicans cheered Freeh on--and gave him little oversight. There was plenty of fresh young talent entering the ranks, but mid- and senior management was a huge problem, as veteran agents left for better-paying jobs or were driven...
...never came. As McVeigh prepares for his execution on May 16, the militia movement that identified with his anti-government rage is dying off too. The last presidential election robbed the movement of two of its favorite villains: Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno. Now middle-aged men who used to tramp through forests in fatigues and war paint are back in front of their TVs sipping beer and watching the game. Nationwide, the number of active militia groups has plummeted, from a high of 858 in 1996 to 194 last year, according to figures from the Southern Poverty...