Janet Reno

In a bitter parting shot at outgoing Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, a Republican-led House panel issued a blistering final report Thursday accusing Reno of going to "extraordinary lengths" to protect the Clinton administration from charges of campaign finance abuses. But Democrats characterized the 200-page report from the House Government Reform Committee as a political hatchet job, meant to smear the Clinton administration weeks before the election.

Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, addressing a group of Asian American lawyers Saturday, again defended the Justice Department's prosecution of fired nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee and said she would move to declassify documents related to the case. Reno told the National Asian Pacific American Bar Assn. that an internal review of the matter has been ordered. She did not specify what data may be made public.

Raising the stakes in a prolonged battle with her Republican adversaries, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno warned Thursday that she will have no choice but to drop the government's landmark lawsuit against the tobacco industry if Congress refuses to provide some $23 million to finance the litigation. "Without that money," Reno told reporters, "we will not be able to proceed. And I think it is imperative that we move forward to protect the American people and to give them their day in court."

In an extraordinary preview of government evidence for a trial that will never take place, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh laid out in painstaking detail Tuesday why they remain convinced that former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee "put this country, and the world, at great risk."

A week after President Clinton blasted the Justice Department's handling of the Wen Ho Lee investigation, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno met Friday with the president and pledged a thorough internal review of questions raised by the controversial national security case.

Two former prosecutors locked in California's tightest and most expensive Congressional race sparred Monday over whether U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno should resign after the controversial prosecution of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. Rep. James E. Rogan (D-Glendale) called Monday for Reno's resignation in what he said was the Justice Department's unequal treatment of Lee. Lee was jailed for nine months, after allegedly downloading nuclear defense secrets onto an unsecured computer. State Sen.

Two former prosecutors locked in California's tightest and most expensive congressional race sparred Monday over whether Atty. Gen. Janet Reno should resign after the controversial prosecution of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee. Rep. James E. Rogan (R-Glendale) called Monday for Reno's resignation for what he said was the U.S. Justice Department's unequal treatment of Lee. He was jailed for nine months after downloading nuclear defense secrets onto an unsecured computer. State Sen.

Atty. Gen. Janet Reno threw herself into the deepening controversy over Bridgestone/Firestone's defective tires on Thursday, saying that the Justice Department will review the matter to determine if legal action might be warranted against those deemed responsible. "We're reviewing everything to see what would be appropriate, and that would include civil or criminal processes," Reno told reporters.

Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, rejecting for the third time an outside investigation into Vice President Al Gore's 1996 fund-raising activities, infuriated Republicans on Wednesday by declaring that she sees no real chance any prosecutor could make a case that Gore had lied about the matter.