Word: reno
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore tried to act surprised Thursday when reporters rushed him with news that one more Justice Department official wants Janet Reno to appoint a special counsel to investigate Gore's 1996 fund-raising zeal. He shouldn't have bothered - a yawn would have been a more genuine response. Sure, the barking is a little louder this time, because Gore is getting closer and closer to November and Reno is getting lonelier and lonelier in her refusal to farm out her investigation to an outside office. But by now, Gore knows the baying of these hounds all too well...
...Justice investigators over familiar ground - the Buddhist temple, the coffees, the fund-raising calls, the iced-tea defense. Gore, sources said, got defensive and angry, and prosecutors (including the whistleblower this time, Justice's campaign finance division head Robert Conrad) came away more suspicious than ever. They told Reno so. Someone at Justice (apparently not Conrad) decided to leak it to Republicans on the Hill, and Arlen Specter saw fit to tell the world...
...drill is familiar: Republicans call for Reno to appoint special counsel or resign, and pray daily that the issue sticks with the voters. The meat-starved political press says things like this "could not come at a worse time for Mr. Gore," (New York Times) ignoring the obvious fact that September, say, would be a far worse time. Failing an about-face by Reno, it'll be up to George W. Bush to do what Specter and the Republicans haven't been able to - keep the issue on the electoral radar until it really matters...
...intruders, who at one point were left unsupervised (still holding their briefcases) in the CIA building, were never in contact with any classified material. Only by choice, it would seem, when one considers that GAO agents were allowed to roam freely through the office suites of Attorney General Janet Reno and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And while neither official was present during this particular encroachment, their absence was due to luck, rather than security measures. Predictably, federal security officials claim that reports of the breaches have already sparked intensive procedural reviews, adding that any future tests would...
...Reno is to be commended for her patience in the Gonzalez debacle. I'm only sorry that she didn't take an offensive position sooner with the Miami relatives. She could justifiably have charged them with kidnapping and inciting a riot. Employing this strategy might have silenced their theatrics. KAREN LEVIN Severna Park...