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...ground laboriously covered by the past two Congresses. But the Democratic Party's dubious fund-raising practices are fertile territory for someone whose zeal for campaign-finance reform has not endeared him to his colleagues. Pressure for a full-blown congressional investigation intensified last week when Attorney General Janet Reno rejected requests for an independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent Republicans. With so many possible transgressions for him to probe, Thompson...
...problem with Reno, says a White House official, is that for her, "consultation with the White House is an afterthought." Her critics there claim that she acts as if she's on the Supreme Court, not an appointed official running an important agency for the President. Reno's decision to seek no fewer than four independent counsels to probe Administration scandals--from allegations regarding Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to Whitewater charges--has exacerbated tensions with the White House. "They don't know what she's going to do," says a Reno aide...
...with the New York Times Thursday, Clinton admitted he had policy discussions with James Riady, the wealthy Indonesian businessman whose family's company once employed Huang and has contributed large sums to the D.N.C. It is revelations like these that would make it increasingly awkward for Clinton to throw Reno, Washington's current referee, out of the game...
Consider that Attorney General Janet Reno has formally recommended that Starr's jurisdiction be expanded on at least five separate occasions. Starr's mandate extends from the original Whitewater land deal to the activities of the failed Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan run by the Clintons' partners Jim and Susan McDougal, to other real estate ventures like Castle Grande, which Hillary Clinton allegedly worked on at the Rose law firm. That's just what is known within the independent counsel's office as the "Arkansas phase" of the investigation. In the "Washington phase," focusing on events that have occurred since...
...Morris were reluctant to include it. (There wasn't room for ideas that didn't test well, Morris said. Polls showed that people didn't want a speech longer than 40 minutes.) But Emanuel and Reed took the matter to Clinton. The President had talked to Attorney General Janet Reno, who had recently returned from Long Beach, California, where school uniforms were being used to combat delinquency."I want it in," Clinton told them. "And here's how I'm going to say it." He scribbled down: "If it means that teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets...