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...this time it wasn't instantly rejected. Gingrich had just returned from China and was on a bit of a roll; plus, as a man who gets inspirations the way other men get coffee, he began hearing from an unlikely trio of political muses. The first was Janet Reno, who, by opting not to name an independent counsel in the fund-raising scandal, gave Newt a better chance to take the moral high ground. The second was his mother, who told him Monday to get on with his life. And then there was golf champion Tiger Woods, who, Gingrich told...
...Janet Reno can read the letter of the law. The question is whether she is missing the larger story. Last week, for the fourth time, the Attorney General decided not to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Democratic campaign fund raising. Relying on the advice of Justice Department lawyers who are conducting their own probe, she pointed to the language of the independent-counsel law. It requires "specific, credible evidence" of a crime by high-ranking federal officials. If the department inquiry turns up a smoking gun, she says, she'll pull the trigger on an investigation...
...Republicans her refusal was a signal to go ballistic. Taking time from finalizing his loan with Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Reno should explain under oath why she opposed a special counsel. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, a sometime Reno supporter, was less bloodthirsty but no less unhappy. "There's overwhelming evidence that there may--that's all you've got to do, show that there may--have been criminal activity," he says. "You can't hide behind career prosecutors...
...ironic that Reno should be suspected of trying to appease Bill Clinton. Whatever her shortcomings, most of Washington agrees she is nobody's crony. Last year she was deeply out of favor with the White House for appointing special counsels four times to investigate Administration scandals. The Clinton team let her dangle for weeks before deciding to keep her as Attorney General. Now her enemies say she is trying to regain favor. Friends say she's a principled legal purist. Just about everybody says that, for better or worse, she's blind to appearances. What she fails...
...June. "The President should know," he insisted. That led to a highly unusual public statement by the FBI contradicting the President and insisting that the agents had never demanded that the aides keep their own superiors in the dark. By midweek the issue appeared settled. Attorney General Janet Reno said it had all been a misunderstanding between the briefers and the briefed over just how closely the information was to be held...