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...national level, this summer's anti-violence crusader Sen. Paul Simon has gained a powerful ally in Attorney General Janet Reno. Reno, embattled by an unbroken string of well-publicized law enforcement failures, has recognized what the bow-tied Mr. Potatohead of Capitol Hill has shrewdly seen all along: TV violence, unlike real violence, is an inherently solvable, if completely delusory, "problem...
...ironic that Janet Reno should now set her sights on purging television of violence. Isn't this the woman who brought the nation the televised immolation of the Waco cultists? The third-most qualified woman in America did not see fit to pursue an investigation of the Crown Heights pogrom. Perhaps it is because Reno has been so unsuccessful at combating real violence that she must confine herself to taking on the fictitious sort...
...wrong for Janet Reno to have dinner with Barbra Streisand? Do celebrities only support causes as an attempt to boost their popularity...
...Reno and Waco...
...Justice Department report has concluded that Janet Reno exhausted all "reasonable alternatives" before approving an assault on David Koresh's Waco compound last spring, and cleared the Attorney General of having made any mistakes. It does conclude, though, that there was bitter wrangling within the fbi about what tactics to use during the 51-day crisis, and that Reno's claim of child abuse during the standoff was unsupported by fact...