FLAWED INDEPENDENT COUNSEL LAW SHOULD BE ABOLISHED, RENO SAYS.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: March 18, 1999 | Copyright information

Attorney General Janet Reno told a Senate hearing yesterday that she was prepared to abandon the independent counsel statute because it had failed to remove politics from cases involving top administration officials, was fatally flawed by procedural ambiguities and seriously distorted critical prosecution decisions.

``My change of heart about this statute has not come lightly,'' Reno told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. ``To those who question me about this or who tell me that they told me so, I can only say this: I've now seen how the statute operates close up, ...

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