If Babs opens our mouth about Reno, what about Ronald Reagan?
Barbra Streisand: The new Janet Reno [confusing headline]
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An e-mail pen pal from Illinois suggested I write an editorial commemorating my fateful meeting 10 years ago with President Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno in the Ulysses S. Grant suite of the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C. During that fateful meeting in November 1993, Reno demanded government control of primetime television. That’s blatantly unconstitutional.
After mulling over what has happened to Reno since then — Parkinson’s disease, her loss in the Florida Democratic primary campaign, and her dubious achievement award for being listed as number seven in the year-end “Whacko” list — I felt it would be unfair to pick on her anymore.
However, Barbra Streisand obligingly made herself a target by coming out of the gate with her version of The Reagans’ story. By all accounts, she is the new Janet Reno, kicking a man when he’s down and, in an editorial, portraying herself as the victim of censorship following CBS’ decision to cancel the controversial mini-series. [snip]
Dog posted this back in 2003
AP: FBI Sent Hamas Money in Clinton Days
JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON
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[And Janet Reno approved it.]
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While President Clinton was trying to broker an elusive peace between Israelis and Palestinians, the FBI was secretly funneling money to suspected Hamas figures to see if the militant group would use it for terrorist attacks, according to interviews and court documents. The counterterrorism operation in 1998 and 1999 was run out of the FBI’s Phoenix office in cooperation with Israeli intelligence and was approved by Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI officials told The Associated Press. Several thousand dollars in U.S. money was sent to suspected...