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...then, just hours after the hearings had come to a close, the nightmare began again. A three-judge panel in Washington stunned the White House by replacing independent counsel Robert Fiske, who had been chosen by Attorney General Janet Reno in January, with Kenneth Starr, a tough, conservative lawyer who served as solicitor general under George Bush. The panel, acting under a law passed by Congress earlier this year, wanted to guarantee that the Whitewater investigation would be truly independent...
...Nussbaum called Hanson again, this time with a new idea: Isn't it true, he asked, that the RTC could transfer its civil probe of Madison into the hands of special prosecutor Fiske, who had been chosen two weeks earlier by Reno to launch the criminal inquiry into Whitewater? If so, Nussbaum told Hanson, she might want to inform Altman, still fully in charge of the Madison case, that such a transfer was possible under Fiske's charter. (Under oath, Nussbaum recalled suggesting this to Hanson, but insisted that he did so to help Altman get out of his conflict...
...soon be facing an independent-counsel investigation. This time it's Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, who's accused of accepting travel and gifts from Tyson Foods Inc, the largest U.S. poultry processor and a firm with close ties to Clinton. Within two weeks, the Washington Post reports, Attorney Janet Reno will move on plans to request an independent counsel, who may widen the probe to include top USDA aides. Meanwhile, White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers reports the president has "absolute confidence" in Espy, who denies any wrongdoing...
After some Republicans complained about special counsel Robert Fiske's ties to the Clinton Administration, a three-judge panel replaced Fiske with Kenneth Starr, another well-regarded Republican lawyer. Fiske was appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno, a Clinton appointee. Today's development could mean that the entire Whitewater investigation into possible improprieties by the Clinton Administration will have to start from square one. Meanwhile, Congressional hearings wound down with Republicans continuing to call for the resignation of Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. Today's highlight was a sharp exchange in which White House counsel Lloyd Cutler lashed...
...marshalls fanned out to several Southern cities to guard abortion clinics after a doctor and an escort were killed, and the doctor's wife wounded, at a clinic in Pensacola, Fla. on Friday. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno assigned the forces to many facilities including ones in Melbourne, Fla., Fargo, N.D., Falls Church, Va., and Wichita...