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Attorney General Janet Reno's decision to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is Issue 3. Amazing, say the pundits: Babbitt has "the finest reputation [for ethical conduct] of anyone in public life" (Oliphant); is "the last [Cabinet member] one would imagine getting in trouble" (Doyle McManus, Washington Week in Review ); and is "the most honest man in government" (an adoring Margaret Carlson, Capital Gang ). The oft-ironic pundits do not note that being the most honest man in Washington is like being the best-complexioned boy in the dermatologist's office.
Washington is still romancing the guy in a way that makes previous presidential infatuations (Tsongas, Babbitt, Anderson) look like spin the bottle.
George T. Babbitt, head of the Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, recently jammed with the Ventures, a band he helped form in the late 1950s.
Babbitt explained that he had probably lied to a lobbyist about being pressured in the matter by Clinton political aide Harold Ickes, but that he (Babbitt) was not now lying to senators about having lied to the lobbyist.
The weekend's final consensus was that Reno and Freeh and the White House would all clash again, but that an independent counsel would be appointed to investigate Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, and the investigation would come back to haunt Clinton and Gore, because independent-counsel investigations "spread like cancer" (Hume).