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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.
Republicans are turning up the heat on Attorney General Janet Reno for failing to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the Democratic fund-raising scandal.
The FT said, [T]o appoint any individual for a fourth term risks over-personalising the institution of the Federal Reserve Bank, and could discourage a more open debate about policy."
More important, Weisberg assumes that Gore would never appoint somebody who disagrees, and might therefore sabotage the policy (among disagreers, only the theoretical perfectly honorable officer would pass muster).
Discovering the bright side of the hearing for the Republicans was Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer), who snooted out these meager truffles: By calling Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh into the station for questioning, Burton kept alive the controversy over Reno's decision not to appoint an independent counsel.