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After years of lonely spadework, Gasior is finally getting some respect. Two powerful Democratic Congressmen, Jack Brooks of Texas and Charlie Rose of North Carolina, took her findings to the White House and Attorney General Janet Reno last month. Their goal: to press for a re-examination of U.S. business ties to Iraq and the role of the Justice Department in a possible cover-up. Last week at a Washington reception, the Cavallo Foundation honored Gasior with a $10,000 award for her "moral courage" and for her efforts to ! expose wrongdoing. Said Rose at the ceremony: "She is remarkable...
Gasior, however, has finally managed to bring her evidence to the attention of the highest authorities. Rose was so impressed with her "smoking gun" document that he enlisted Brooks, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, to help set up a meeting with Attorney General Reno. Though Rose and Brooks presented allegations of a Justice Department cover-up, Reno listened impassively -- and it is not clear precisely what, if anything, she may do about it. "I know she's giving it serious consideration," says Rose, who realizes, just as Reno does, that a full-scale investigation could send shock waves through...
...dumping Guinier, Clinton was also forced to rebuff Reno, who supported the civil rights nominee. Reno had read Guinier's writings and found them to be merely "thought-provoking efforts on the part of a law professor to invigorate debate." Later she added, "I think if you look at her record, she'd be the best possible choice." At the White House, Reno was said to be deeply annoyed at the President's action, and the next day she gave Guinier the forum for a press conference at Justice to tell her side. In doing so, Reno was walking...
...have felt compelled to dump Guinier under any circumstances, the move, coming at a time of presidential image overhaul, looked like some kind of Faustian political bargain. Clinton not only dumped an old friend but in doing so also dismissed the views of his folk-hero Attorney General, Janet Reno, and in the same stroke managed to let minority groups believe their interests were secondary to other concerns...
...Reno shot back in her own speech. "I'm not a thief," she said. "There's been no permanent deprivation."CrimsonTie A. ChapmanJANET C. RENO...