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...Gore's longtime advisers and his principal fund raiser, Knight tends to the darker side of Gore's world. It was Knight, the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1996, who prepared many of the "call sheets" that Gore worked from when dialing for dollars. Now, after Attorney General Janet Reno has begun a preliminary review of those calls under the independent-counsel law, government sources tell TIME that Justice is also probing Knight's multilayered connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in federal contracts and regulatory breaks from the Clinton Administration while the firm and its officers...
...Then of course there was Janet Reno, now officially the most cautious human being on the planet. Perhaps fearful that the sky would fall on her head, Ms. Reno notched up a couple more missed opportunities to appoint an independent counsel in the campaign finance conundrum. What could the Justice chief be waiting for ? judgment...
...investigation of Hazel O'Leary is bringing Janet Reno closer to appointing an independent counsel (TIME Daily...
WASHINGTON: Janet Reno ? who has sat for months on the fence between loyalty and legality ? may finally be making her move. The 30 days that Reno's task force was allowed for its investigation of former energy secretary Hazel O'Leary is up Friday, but Reno seems likely to give the investigation a 60-day extension. O'Leary herself has already been informed that the task force needs more time; Reno's official announcement could come at any minute...
...Which is all something of a yawn ? except that on Nov. 20, Reno can enlarge the preliminary investigation of O'Leary into a large-scale shakedown of Democratic abuses. This would allow Republicans to hear the magic words "independent counsel" ? all the while keeping O'Leary as the probe's nominal target. That, as TIME's Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf points out, would be the attorney general's perfect compromise: mollifying opponents of the Clinton-Gore machine without giving her White House bosses a pair of black eyes...