Word: shannon
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...With reporting by J.F.O. McAllister, Jodie Morse, Elaine Shannon and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...McAllister, deputy Washington bureau chief and a lawyer, shared with Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon the task of analyzing the legal case. Says Shannon: " I cover agents, cops and prosecutors, so I talk to people who have seen a lot worse than anything in the Starr report." She relayed the sentiments of one veteran law-enforcement official: "There's almost nothing in the report that hasn't happened in the Hoover building...
...discrepancies between Betty Currie's testimony and Monica's -- which Starr seizes on as evidence of Presidential influence -- certainly cut the other way too. "Starr has relied on Lewinsky's version of events as accurate and has reported Currie's contradictory evidence dismissively," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But any good defense lawyer would assert that Currie's credibility is greater than that of Lewinsky...
...Janet Reno has been through this ritual before: first a 30-day inquiry, then a 90-day inquiry, then... nothing. Not so this time; the attorney general's decision late Tuesday to launch a 90-day probe into the Clinton/Gore '96 campaign could, says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon, be "the mother of all probes...
...Reno with precisely what she needed to pull the trigger this time: specific and credible evidence that a major player, such as Clinton or Gore, was directly involved in wrongdoing. "The betting inside Justice is that she'll seek an independent counsel after the 90 days are up," says Shannon. "And along with Gore and Clinton, Bob Dole could be involved...