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...decision. But before leaving the Czech capital Wednesday morning, Clinton told advisers, "I want to get on with the business of my presidency," and gave the go-ahead for a special counsel. Officially, the decision came in a letter from White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum to Attorney General Janet Reno...
...recent Whitewater affair is even more troubling. Attorney General Janet Reno waited until yesterday to appoint Robert Fiske Jr., a former U.S. Attorney, as special prosecutor for the case. Some of the documents he must review are subject to statutes of limitations under Arkansas state law. By waiting this long, Reno may have helped to obscure a great deal of the truth about Clinton's Arkansas land dealings...
...Reno had claimed she needed Congress to renew the Independent Counsel Act, but that simply was not true. Yesterday, she did what she could have done all along: called for a special prosecutor outside of her department. Better yet, her boss could have ordered her to do so, proving he had nothing to hide and helping to clear the air around...
...Madison Guaranty's depositors, but federal taxpayers eventually had to pick up the tab through the RTC. Another intriguing factor is that the plane was at one point owned by Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, then a law partner of Hillary's and now Reno's top deputy at the Justice Department. McDougal sold Ward the plane, and his S&L loaned him the money for the purchase, Ward told TIME, in order to keep the aircraft off Madison's books, where it might have aroused suspicion among regulators. Hubbell acted as counsel to his father...
...anyone to divulge any information contained in the files. Five boxes of papers have been given to the Justice Department, with more to come in the next two or three weeks. The delay, said the White House, was because of the need to "catalogue" the papers. Attorney General Janet Reno said she might seek a court-appointed special prosecutor to pursue the case if a new special- prosecutor bill passes in Congress...