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...MICHAEL WEISSKOPF has rigorously documented campaign fund raising in more than 30 stories since he joined TIME in January. His determination to follow the money has led him to some interesting Beltway venues--including the office of a chief Washington lobbyist this week. In a TIME exclusive, Weisskopf reveals the identity of the man who acted as a go-between for Democratic fund raiser Johnny Chung and former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary. Such tenacity has earned him a George Polk Award for his reporting on Congress. "Campaign fund raising may seem a strange Washington game," says Weisskopf...
...going to be difficult ? if not impossible ??to prove the president was involved with how such funds were handled at Democratic National Committee Headquarters, says TIME Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf. "No analysis of the President's phone log can prove Clinton knew the DNC staff was mingling hard and soft accounts," observes Weisskopf. But that's not daunting Justice investigators. AllPolitics reports that the inquiry is beginning with a massive computer search of White House telephone records, hoping to uncover who Clinton spoke with and whether those calls prodded any suspicious donations to the Democratic National committee...
...Reno can enlarge the preliminary investigation of O'Leary into a large-scale shakedown of Democratic abuses. This would allow Republicans to hear the magic words "independent counsel" ? all the while keeping O'Leary as the probe's nominal target. That, as TIME's Washington correspondent Michael Weisskopf points out, would be the attorney general's perfect compromise: mollifying opponents of the Clinton-Gore machine without giving her White House bosses a pair of black eyes...
...refusing to turn over the investigation to an independent counsel, Justice is probing Knight's connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in contracts and breaks from the Clinton Administration ? while raising $132,000 for the President and his party. TIME?s Senior Washington Correspondent Michael Weisskopf reports Knight provided access to Gore while lobbying for Molten Metal Technology ? and took a fat commission for himself...
...Michael Weisskopf...