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...director Louis Freeh was not consulted because it was believed that he was disloyal. Attorney General Janet Reno advised against the bombings because of weak links between bin Laden and the embassy bombings, Hersh said...
...when Tripp contacted his office on Jan. 12. The story Tripp told that day--and especially the parts about Vernon Jordan's job search for Lewinsky, with its hints that Clinton was trying to buy her silence--became the basis for Starr's successful request that Attorney General Janet Reno allow him to investigate the Lewinsky matter. But according to an Oct. 4 article in the New York Times, word about the Clinton-Lewinsky connection actually came to Starr the previous week by way of a group of conservative lawyers that included Richard Porter, a partner in Kirkland & Ellis, Starr...
...days before Tripp herself called Starr's deputy Jackie Bennett, would have allowed Starr more time to craft his strategy to get jurisdiction over the Lewinsky angle. And it also would have lengthened the period in which Starr was looking into the Jones case without first receiving permission from Reno, a serious problem given the Independent Counsel Act's tough rules against free-lance investigating. Starr's spokesman Charles Bakaly denies that the office began probing before Tripp called. But last week David Kendall, the President's private attorney, sent a letter to Reno asking her to look into...
What's more, Clinton's entire campaign of lies and obstructions in 1998 was designed to combat an investigation that Clinton--and many other Americans--viewed as fundamentally illegitimate. The only justification for Starr's probe of the Lewinsky affair--the reason Janet Reno authorized it--was an alleged pattern of obstruction that Starr said stretched back to the Whitewater case...
...Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard and Natascha McElhone, all enigmatic and excellent--in expensive, nonstop pursuit of an oddly shaped aluminum suitcase...