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...action?" Zeliff asked. "Didn'tRoger Altmansound the alarm?" Bentsen responded: "The responsibility at that point was the Justice Department and the FBI. That was their jurisdiction. I had other responsibilities to attend to. I thought it was already being taken care of by the Justice Department." Attorney General Janet Reno, he pointed out, made the decision to stage the final April 1993 raid that ended with a conflagration in which cult leader David Koresh and 80 of his Branch Davidian followers were killed. Republicans questioned how a treasury secretary could not have known of such a large operation being planned...
...Clinton Administration will not join the court fight against Colorado's ban onlaws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination. Attorney General Janet Reno said she would not file an amicus brief supporting the elimination of the ban, as many civil and gay rights groups had urged, because "there was no federal program or statute involved." Disappointed activists accused the Justice Department of running away from an important civil rights issue for political reasons. While Reno denied politics had anything to do with her decision, TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen says that politics had to be a consideration. "We wouldn...
Other Class Day speakers at the Law School have included Attorney General Janet Reno, who received her LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1963 and Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29, who received his LL.B. from Harvard Law school...
Attorney General Janet Reno requested the appointment of yet another independent counsel -- her fourth -- to probe top Administration officials, this time Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. The counsel will look into, among other things, a business deal that apparently netted nearly $500,000 when Brown sold his interest in a firm in which he invested no money. Backed by the President, Brown denied wrongdoing and vowed to remain in the Cabinet...
...appointed David Barrett, a former counsel to the House ethics committee, to investigate whether HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros committed a crime by misleading the FBI about payments to his former mistress during pre-confirmation background checks. "Information provided by Secretary Cisneros concerning his payments to (Linda) Medlar was false," Reno told a special court when she asked for the appointment March 14. People familiar with the case have said a number of lawyers who were approached for the position took themselves out of consideration because they had done legal work involving Cisneros' department...