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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost entirely made up of faceless bureaucrats--the principles at stake are not. What makes this more than just another inside-the-Beltway imbroglio is the fear that the Clinton White House may have misused the FBI just months after the Administration, in the wake of the travel-office scandal, swore such a thing would never happen again. When a President harnesses the power of America's premier law-enforcement agency to political ends, he rides roughshod over the Constitution and revisits the bad old days of J. Edgar Hoover. Is this what Clinton or his people were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN BEHIND THE MESS | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...White House." It is "part of my job," he says blandly, to win the goodwill of powerful politicians, and he would gladly meet with Newt Gingrich "if I could." That would take some doing, since the Speaker of the House has named Coia as a figure in "a scandal that's about to break." Well, maybe not right away. As Luskin notes, the union has until Feb. 11, 1998, "to prove the deal was sound" and that the union really can cleanse itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

BOGOTA, Colombia: Scandal-plagued President Ernesto Samper may be exonerated despite testimony from campaign officers that he accepted $6 million from drug cartels in return for political favors. The lower house of the national congress, dominated by members of Samper's Liberal Party, is expected to find that there is not enough evidence to send Samper to the Senate for impeachment. -->