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...last week, nervous White House aides were wondering why they were getting so many requests from Justice for presidential phone records. Finally, sometime after 6 p.m. on Friday, David Kendall, one of Clinton's personal attorneys, phoned Reno's office and learned that the Attorney General had indeed taken the fateful step. Kendall then called White House counsel Charles Ruff. On Saturday afternoon, after TIME called for comment, the White House publicly confirmed the inquiry and promised its cooperation, adding, "We are confident that no laws were broken...
Under the terms of the Ethics in Government law, at the end of the initial 30-day review, Reno must determine whether the probe has dismissed the possibility of criminal conduct. If it hasn't, a 90-day preliminary inquiry must go forward. After that, if questions of fact or law remain, Reno will have no choice but to apply to a special three-judge panel for the appointment of an independent counsel. Reno has already made public the fact that she has started the 30-day clock ticking against Gore. The Vice President last week hired two lawyers, former...
...Clinton, the mere prospect of an investigation means a serious deepening of his permanent state of legal siege. If Reno eventually calls for an independent counsel, this one would be the first to investigate Clinton himself, not just a member of his Cabinet or a wide-ranging mess like Whitewater that may or may not center on him. And unlike the Whitewater probe, with its endless sifting of a land deal that started in the days of sideburns and bell-bottoms, this one would be investigating actions that Clinton undertook while President...
...battered, isolated Reno, all of this means a collision course with a President who brought her to Washington, then kept her at arm's length. Ever since April, when she declined a Republican request to appoint an independent prosecutor, she has lived and worked under a question: Was she merely protecting the President? By last week some Republicans in Congress were even suggesting that she should be impeached for not naming one. This kind of attention has been hard for Reno, who is so touchy about ethical appearances that she bought her car at list price so no one could...
What prompted Reno to act was an analysis from the Justice-FBI campaign task force that landed on her desk in the second week of September. Alerted by the Post story on Gore's telephone solicitations, the task force decided to compare Clinton's phone logs with "call sheets"--memos drawn up by the Democratic National Committee to suggest telephone talking points with donors--and records of the Federal Election Commission that show where the money went. It discovered about a dozen links that look suspicious: call sheets preceding donations that landed partly in hard accounts. Staff members...