[The headline is a little misleading, although it does give one
hope. Janet Reno could quash the whole thing. Any betting people
out there who think she will actually go along with this
recommendation? --MS]
Gore To Be Probed for Fund Raising
The Associated Press
Thursday, June 22, 2000; 3:39 p.m. EDT
WASHINGTON –– A top Justice Department prosecutor has recommended
a special counsel be appointed to investigate Vice President Al
Gore in the 1996 campaign fund-raising controversy, government
officials said Thursday.
The recommendation, which could impact Gore's Democratic
presidential campaign, came from Robert Conrad, supervising
attorney for the Justice Department task force investigating 1996
fund-raising abuses, said the officials, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Conrad interviewed Gore and President Clinton in April. Conrad
signaled activity in the investigation on Wednesday when he
declined to answer a senator's questions about the vice president
and the president.
Officials said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., recently learned about
Conrad's recommendation.
"I have reason to believe that Mr. Conrad has made a
recommendation that an independent counsel be appointed as to
matters related to Vice President Gore," Specter said in a
telephone interview.
At Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee
on administrative oversight and the courts, Specter asked Conrad
whether "you made or attempted to make a recommendation" on a
special counsel to investigate Gore or Clinton.
"I don't feel comfortable discussing" the matter, Conrad replied.
Conrad said it is "something that pertains to an ongoing
investigation."
Specter, in the interview on Thursday, said Attorney General
Janet Reno "has done a great disservice to Vice President Gore
because these matters should have been investigated a long time
ago."
Reno repeatedly declined to seek appointment of an Independent
Counsel before the statute expired a year ago.
Specter said that his hearings into decision-making within the
Justice Department on the fund-raising scandal "have been very
embarrassing to the Department of Justice" in that "they did not
proceed with an independent counsel as to the vice president a
long time ago."
Reno twice rejected an independent counsel to investigate Gore –
once for fund-raising phone calls from his White House office,
the second time for possible false statements about that
fund-raising.
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