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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republi
cans threatened Attorney General
Janet Reno with contempt of Con
gress Sunday over her decision to
forgo an independent counsel’s in
vestigation of White House cam
paign fund raising.
One GOP senator, Orrin Hatch of
Utah, said he is
asking FBI di
rector Louis
Freeh to by
pass Reno, his
boss, and in
vestigate alle
gations of De
mocratic
impropriety in
fund raising.
“I have no
doubt that the
political ap
pointees in the department who
have been influencing her are do
ing nothing but protecting the
president,” Senate Judiciary Com
mittee chair Hatch said on CBS’
“Face the Nation.”
Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, shot
back: “Was it protecting the presi
dent when she appointed four in
dependent counsels that all took
aim at the White House?” Before the
cameras were turned on, Glenn
flashed Reno a thumb-to-forefinger
Reno
OK sign and told her he admired her
for standing up to her principles on
the independent-counsel decision.
Tuesday, Reno announced her
decision not to request a court-
appointed independent counsel
to look into fund-raising calls
President Clinton and Vice Presi
dent A1 Gore made from the White
House. In a 69-page brief and ac
companying news conference,
she said they had broken no fed
eral laws.
Furious over Reno’s decision, Re
publicans used Sunday’s talk-show
circuit to lob a series of threats at
her and the Justice Department.
Rep. Dan Burton, chair of the
House Government Reform and
Oversight Committee, said on “Fox
News Sunday” the panel will con
sider recommending a contempt of
Congress charge if she refuses to
comply with its subpoena seeking
Freeh’s memo endorsing an inde
pendent counsel.
“We’re going to reach maybe a
little crisis here,” Burton said. Asked
whether he would cite Reno for
contempt, he said: “That’s the step
we’ll have to look at next.”
But he acknowledged an inher
ent problem with that action:
“Obviously, if we cited her for
contempt, it would have to go to
the Justice Department for carry
ing out that contempt citation.
And she would be making the de
cision on that.”
Reno did not rule out sending
Burton the memo, with sensitive in
formation blacked out.
On “Face the Nation,” Reno in
sisted: “‘I’m not protecting anybody.
If I were protecting people, I’d close
up the shop and go home.”
She said Clinton and Gore are
not out of the woods.
“We have not closed this investi
gation in any way,” she said. “No
one has been exonerated.”
Republicans said that is not rea
son enough for her to continue an
investigation of the man who ap
pointed her, which both the GOP
and FBI director Freeh consider a
conflict of interest.
Hatch surprised Glenn on the
program with the disclosure he
plans to send Freeh a letter Mon
day asking him to investigate De
mocratic fund-raising irregulari
ties separately from Reno, even
though the FBI is part of the Jus
tice Department.
“He should conduct an indepen
dent investigation without regard to
the Justice Department, other than
reporting to them and cooperating
with them and talking to them,”
Hatch said. “He should do it inde
pendently, because that’s the only
way we’re going to have, it seems to
me, a way around these conflicts of
interest that clearly exist.”
Hatch’s House counterpart, Ju
diciary Committee Chair Henry
Hyde, R-Ill., said his panel will
hold hearings on how to overhaul
the Justice Department — with a
critical eye trained especially on
the Public Integrity Section,
which advises Reno on the fund
raising probe.
“It’s a little difficult to have confi
dence looking at their track record,”
Hyde said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“We’re going to look at everything,
we’re going to look at the people who
run them, their attitudes, how much
they spend. We can fashion legisla
tion that will accomplish what we
think are the appropriate goals for
the Justice Department.”
In a separate development, Sen.
Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., whose
Governmental Affairs Committee
held inconclusive hearings on the
fund-raising question, said his pan
el would refer criminal perjury
charges against several witnesses.
He identified none of them, but
The Washington Times reported Sat
urday one would be Interior Secre
tary Bruce Babbitt.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Clinton told District of Co
lumbia residents Sunday he is ded
icated to making the nation’s
beleaguered capital "a shining city
on the hill for all America.”
“I don’t believe our national
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Gore pushes global-warming solution
Signing of pollution treaty still in question at Kyoto conference
WASHINGTON (AP) —When asked about the
uncertainties of global warming, President Clin
ton often defers to his chief environmental ad
viser— A1 Gore.
“Read the vice president’s book,” is Clinton’s
advice to those who question the need to rein in
heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Gore was arriving Sunday in Kyoto, Japan, to
press before delegates from 150 nations the
U.S. position greenhouse gases must be cut but
not so rapidly as many demand. En route, the
vice president gave no assurance an agreement
was in sight.
“It’s a very tricky situation, and success is far
from assured,” he told reporters aboard his
plane. “A lot of issues are undecided.”
The United States would stabilize greenhouse
gases, principally carbon dioxide from burning
fossil fuels such as coal and oil, at 1990 levels over
a period of roughly the next dozen years. Envi
ronmentalists have embraced a tougher Euro
pean proposal that would cut emissions 15 per
cent beyond the U.S. plan.
The Clinton administration decided to send
Gore to the contentious climate conference after
days of debate with political advisers anxious it
might backfire on the vice president if no treaty
emerges or if he is viewed by environmentalists
as accepting a weak agreement.
Gore would not be easily persuaded to stay away.
“It is an issue about which he feels very strong
ly and personally,” Carol Browner, head of the En
vironmental Protection Agency, a member of
Gore’s staff when he was in Congress, said.
Five years ago, in writing Earth In the Balance,
Gore cemented his credentials among environ
mentalists with his very personal plea to protect
the Earth from humans’ mischief.
He warned in the book of impending envi
ronmental crisis because of human dabbling in
the Earth’s natural balance. The threat of global
warming, he says, is “the most serious problem
that we have ever faced.”
But his call then for “bold and unequivocal ac
tion” on global warming and other environmen
tal threats also has been flung back at him by
some environmentalists, who now criticize as
too timid the administration’s proposal before
the delegates gathered in Kyoto.
As word of Gore’s visit circulated in Kyoto,
some environmentalists hoped it signaled ad
ministration willingness to move closer to the
European numbers. But two-thirds of the way
into the 10-day conference, there has been little
movement toward consensus, not only on levels
of greenhouse emission reductions but even on
what gases the treaty should cover.
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reaction was an encouraging
sign that people of all races are
eager to talk.
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