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Subject: sls: Reno proves that Justice is blind
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>http://www.msnbc.com/news/93394.asp
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> Attorney general abdicates her legal responsibilities
>
> Reno proves that Justice is blind
>
> Opinion
>
>
> By John H. Fund
> SPECIAL TO MSNBC
>
> Attorney General Janet Reno is
> nothing if not
> consistent. While she remains oblivious to
> the law requiring her to appoint an
> independent counsel if there is credible
> evidence of lawbreaking in the
> campaign-finance scandal, she is now also
> looking the other way in the U.S. Senate's
> probe of voter fraud in Louisiana. When it
> comes to ethical problems that involve her
> president or her party, Reno's response seems
> to be: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no
> evil.
> Now the attorney general is giving
> aid and comfort to
> Senate Democrats who want to shut down an
> examination of Louisiana's disputed Senate
> election. After Democrats on the rules
> committee withdrew their support for the
> probe in June, she recalled the two FBI
> agents assisting the committee after they had
> been on the job only 18 days. She said the
> FBI has a tradition of only providing agents
> for bipartisan congressional investigations.
> Sen. John Warner, the moderate rules
> committee chairman heading the probe, says
> Justice's action creates an "appearance of
> impropriety" because the committee now lacks
> the resources to complete its work.
> When it
> comes to
> ethical
> problems that
> involve her
> party, Reno's
> response
> seems to be:
> See no evil,
> hear no evil,
> speak no evil.
>
>
> Morris Reed, a black Democrat who ran
> for New
> Orleans district attorney in the same
> election, says that both he and GOP Senate
> candidate Woody Jenkins were victims of a
> concerted effort at vote fraud by Mayor Marc
> Morial's LIFE political machine. Last year,
> Reed was worried enough about reports of
> impending fraud that he wrote to Attorney
> General Reno asking that federal poll
> watchers be sent. Having served as an
> assistant U.S. attorney handling civil rights
> cases, the Democratic Reed expected a reply
> from his old employer. He heard nothing from
> Reno.
> Then in April, Rep. Billy Tauzin, who
> served 15 years
> as a Democrat in Congress before switching
> parties, wrote Reno and asked for an
> investigation of the Senate vote. She replied
> that "this department has a policy of
> refraining whenever possible from intervening
> in ongoing election disputes until those
> disputes have been resolved." Sen. Warner
> points out that this effectively means the
> FBI doesn't aggressively investigate fraud
> while an election challenge is still before
> the Senate. But he says the Senate can't
> decide whether fraud existed without the help
> of FBI agents. This "should be a basis for
> granting an exception to your policy on the
> detail of FBI agents," the senator wrote Reno
> and FBI Director Louis Freeh last week.
>
> U.S. Department of
> Justice Home Page
> Complete coverage of the
> Senate campaign finance
> hearings
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>
> In Washington, the Democrats have
> threatened to
> slow down all Senate business this September
> if the probe isn't terminated. More and more
> independent observers believe that by her
> actions Attorney General Reno has become an
> active accomplice in the stonewalling. That
> concern is one of many reasons that House
> Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde will hold a
> hearing in a few weeks demanding a full
> accounting of Reno's inexplicable behavior.
> As in her decision not to appoint an
> independent
> counsel in the campaign-finance scandal, Reno
> is ignoring her duty when she refuses to find
> out if the civil rights of Louisiana voters
> were infringed upon. Republicans may have but
> one recourse: to delay confirmation of
> Clinton judicial and other nominations until
> Reno provides a reasonable explanation for
> her refusal to carry out her duty to uphold
> the law.
>
>
> John H. Fund is a member of The Wall Street
> Journal's editorial board and a regular
> contributor to MSNBC on the Internet.
>
>
> c 1997 MSNBC
>
>
>
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