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...Johnson who has stepped up, sort of. The judge agreed to give two House investigators limited permission to read secret Justice Department memos drafted by FBI Director Louis Freeh and prosecutor Charles LaBella. Though the memos are filled with grand jury evidence about Clinton campaign finances, Attorney General Janet Reno has previously concluded the information does not add up to criminal wrongdoing. "Based on what we know," says Novak, "there doesn't seem to be anything there. Two other committees have already investigated the subject and come up with very little." Some House Judiciary committee members obviously feel...
...that broke up Standard Oil, his lawyer's response was brief and to the point: "I'll see you in hell first." Microsoft hasn't been that dismissive of its own high-profile antitrust suit, but it's come close. Vice chairman Steve Ballmer declared, "To heck with Janet Reno," last year. And earlier this month a supremely self-assured Bill Gates told a meeting of 2,000 Microsoft shareholders that "the facts simply don't support the government's claim...
WASHINGTON: Say what you want about Janet Reno (and you won't come up with any fresh insults), she probably just hasn't decided yet. After getting a 60-day extension of her latest deadline for appointing an independent counsel -- this time for a perjury investigation into former top White House aide Harold Ickes -- the interpretation game is on. The most likely reason is simple indecision, but TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon says if politics did come into Reno's calculation, the specter of creating another Ken Starr might be enough to keep this investigation...
...Ickes decision is Reno's murkiest -- and therefore biggest -- in a while. Any investigator she appoints will quickly head, with cameras rolling and Republicans crowing, to Clinton and Gore. By delaying, Reno may be hoping the Starr-tainted independent counsel statute will be quietly discarded when it comes up for renewal this winter. In that case, Reno could pick Al Gore's poison instead of leaving the three-judge panel that chose Starr to work its magic again. With even Reno's own staff pulling her in different directions these days, fear of a sequel -- and consequently, the need...
...Clinton obviously wants to avoid another independent counsel -- if he were to evade interviews, he'd just be increasing the likelihood that Reno would appoint one." And how great is that likelihood? With a month still left on the 90-day clock Reno started on September 8, Shannon says even the attorney general doesn't know yet. "She has a history of going down to the wire." But with Republican appetites for scandal considerably curbed of late, Clinton knows that this time around, with these investigators, ignorance of the law could well be all the excuse he needs...