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...Friday, Democrats were the ones privately likening the mess to Watergate, and Republicans were publicly bragging that even Janet Reno's Justice Department could not ignore the problem. Reno took the initial steps to determine whether there were grounds to name an independent counsel to investigate the D.N.C. fund raising. In fact she had no choice: under law, once G.O.P. lawmakers had approached her with their complaints, she had to send the matter to the Office of Public Integrity for a 30-day review. After four investigations of various scandals, even the White House has come to see an advantage...
Questions like these, some of them raised by G.O.P. legislators, prompted Attorney General Janet Reno to order the Justice Department to weigh the possibility of recommending that an independent counsel be appointed to investigate the matter...
Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros is expected to resign any day now. The White House is also trying to get Attorney General Janet Reno to resign. Administration officials are planting leaks about her battle with Parkinson's disease to try to force her out. Not even Bob Dole was treated so harshly...
Clinton should also pardon Susan McDougal and make her Secretary of Defense. Not that she'd have any clue how to run the Pentagon, but she deserves something for keeping her mouth shut. Finally, if Janet Reno leaves, Hillary Clinton should become Attorney General. That would make the messy business of Whitewater, Travelgate and Filegate that much easier to cover...
...demerits for going to bat for ValuJet in the days immediately after its passenger jet crashed in the Everglades, but might stay in the job if Bill Daley, brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, doesn't get it. The White House reportedly would like to get rid of Janet Reno, but the highly popular attorney general would be difficult to fire. In addition, Robert Rubin at Treasury and CIA Director John Deutch may be shuffled into new jobs after today's resignations...