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...polite or appropriate for commissioners to beg, but Michael, please come back", commissioner David Stern said last week...
...from the ranks of the House Judiciary Committee and led by its chairman, Henry Hyde, the managers have been preparing for their star turns as prosecutors in the trial of the century. When Lott floated his plan, a manager griped, "It was like, 'Hey, what about us?'" In a stern three-page letter to Lott, Hyde bristled at the idea that their engagement might be a limited one. "We need not sacrifice substance and duty for speed," Hyde wrote...
...with the business of my presidency," and gave the go-ahead for a special counsel...But there are questions about the special counsel. Who will be chosen? Reno's only answer was someone "ruggedly independent"... How broad or narrow will the probe be? Said Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern: "We are not going to tell the special counsel what to investigate. He or she is going to tell us." The difference could be crucial. An inquiry focused narrowly on Whitewater...might be concluded speedily but be open to charges of inadequacy. A broader investigation could turn into a fishing expedition...
...Even Stern, however, said that he would be unwilling to participate in a study which required him to be hooked up to rectal temperature sensors while staying up for 38 hours straight...
...Lockerbie breakthrough may be the enduring legacy of Blair?s South African trip, which has been shadowed by radical Islamic protests against the Iraq bombings and stern words from Mandela on the same issue. A trial in the Netherlands may bring closure to the Lockerbie families, but it will also end sanctions against Libya. And that will send Washington?s Libya policy wonks scurrying back to the drawing board...