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Nixon hated PBS no more than he did the commercial networks, but his veto over PBS's funding and his power to appoint board members to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS's overseers) gave him a direct outlet for his hate.
The papers' fronts all report that yesterday, Janet Reno decided that there is no need to appoint an independent counsel to look into Bill Clinton's 1996 fund-raising.
Attorney General Janet Reno's refusal to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Clinton, Gore, or Hazel O'Leary--over the objections of FBI Director Louis Freeh--was Topic 1 on the weekend shows.
Reno's independence has given her the courage to appoint counsels to probe her colleagues and her boss, and the courage not to appoint counsels even when the wolves were baying for them.
It gives her a wider berth than the "specific and credible" language, but it does not require her to appoint an independent counsel every time someone in the opposing party detects the appearance of a political conflict.