Cliff Stearns: “Yesterday the lead editorial in The New York Times came out strongly against the Attorney General and her continued…”

“Yesterday the lead editorial in The New York Times came out strongly against the Attorney General and her continued refusal to admit to the obvious. The law requires that an independent counsel be named to investigate allegations of illegal campaign money from Communist China into the Democratic Party in the 1996 election. FBI Director Louie Freeh has pleaded with the Attorney General to do so. And now Charles Labella, the person who was hand picked by Janet Reno to lead the investigation of these charges, has told the Attorney General that she simply has no choice. The New York Times in this editorial states, 'Ms. Reno can give her usual runaround about being hard-headed, but she cannot hide from the meaning of this development.' Ms. Reno has ignored the advice of the FBI Director and her own hand-picked investigator for too long. She is a lot like the character in Hogan's Heroes, that great TV series, Sergeant Schultz. When Colonel Hogan would say something to him about nefarious affairs, Sergeant Schultz would say, 'I know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing.' Ms. Reno, it is time to appoint an independent prosecutor for campaign finance.”