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Betting is heavy that Attorney General JANET RENO won't call for an independent counsel to investigate BILL CLINTON'S role in the Democratic Party's 1995-96 blitz of "issue advocacy" ads. Justice Department lawyers are having trouble defining a crime that might have occurred. Most similar election-law violations are handled as civil, not criminal, matters; whether or not a candidate can participate in his party's issue ads is an unsettled matter...
...strongest argument that Clinton and the other Democrats could use to fend off another probe is that their lawyers were involved in every step of the $42 million ad campaign. The independent-counsel law allows Reno to stand down if there is "clear and convincing evidence" that no wrongdoing was intended, and reliance on the advice of counsel goes a long way toward meeting that standard. Ironically, former Clinton adviser DICK MORRIS, whose descriptions of Clinton's helping to craft the ads got the President in hot water to begin with, could be the Democrats' best witness. According to Morris...
...money for issue advocacy ads -- are finding Bill Clinton a voluble target. TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon says that Clinton's guilt or innocence still depends largely on intent, and that means Clinton's best tack is cooperation early and often -- starting with a nonconfrontational interview Monday with Reno's investigators...
...move some Republicans called blatant race-baiting, President Clinton announced last weekend that Attorney General Janet Reno would be sending out election monitors to New York, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and California to protect minorities from intimidation...
Mike J. Donohue of the National Republican Congressional Committee responded by calling the Reno announcement a "rather cynical attempt to manipulate certain minority voters, particularly African American voters...