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...check-screening procedures and reiterated the fund-raising guidelines that forbid soliciting contributions in return for White House invitations and bar most party-related activities from government buildings. But with the flood of new evidence being released, there are more calls for a special prosecutor. Attorney General Janet Reno continues to resist, claiming she still hasn't seen sufficient evidence of lawbreaking by high government officials, the threshold requirement. Reno promises to reconsider after a Justice Department task force concludes its ongoing investigation, which could take several months...
...them, therefore, an independent counsel is doubly attractive--not only to chase the President but also to cut off any other inquiries. Some Republicans are even thinking of invoking an obscure clause of the independent-counsel statute that would require Janet Reno to start a separate investigation into whether a counsel is needed if a majority of either party on the Senate Judiciary Committee provides its own list of possible criminal charges. If she cannot refute the charges within 30 days, she has 60 days to investigate the case for appointing one. During all that time, Reno would be required...
...words were cold and willful. In July 1995, at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, Timothy McVeigh reportedly sat down with a member of his defense team and was asked, Why didn't you bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at night, when fewer people would be killed? The prisoner looked his interlocutor in the eye and said, "That would not have gotten the point across to the government. We needed a body count to make our point...
...Washington expected the news. Bill Clinton's antidrug czar Barry McCaffrey heard it from the State Department, which had found out about it from reporters. The Drug Enforcement Administration was caught flat-footed, as was the CIA. At a press conference, a chagrined Attorney General Janet Reno said, "What I learned was at the point after the arrest was made...
...death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation...