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What’s the matter with Rick Lazio’s friends? His $13,500 profit came from an initial investment of $2,300. If they’d steered him into cattle futures, he could have made $243,800.

Another Justice Department official has urged Janet Reno to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Al Gore for violating campaign-finance laws in the 1996 election—and for lying about it during the subsequent investigation. This recommendation from Robert Conrad, head of the task force looking into these matters, follows those of his predecessor Charles LaBella and FBI director Louis Freeh. It is obvious that Justice is itself incapable of investigating Gore. A special prosecutor, however, would in all likelihood simply bury the story for months, maybe years, and then issue some inconclusive report. (That’s what the independent counsel has just done in the Travelgate case.) Sen. Arlen Specter’s investigatory committee should take the lead in holding the executive branch accountable. George W. Bush should campaign against the corruption of the Clinton-Gore years. The only way to end the scandals is to end this crowd’s stay in Washington.

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What’s the matter with Rick Lazio’s friends? His $13,500 profit came from an initial investment of $2,300. If they’d steered him into cattle futures, he could have made $243,800.

Another Justice Department official has urged Janet Reno to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Al Gore for violating campaign-finance laws in the 1996 election—and for lying about it during the subsequent investigation. This recommendation from Robert Conrad, head of the task force looking into these matters, follows those of his predecessor Charles LaBella and FBI director Louis Freeh. It is obvious that Justice is itself incapable of investigating Gore. A special prosecutor, however, would in all likelihood simply bury the story for months, maybe years, and then issue some inconclusive report. (That’s what the independent counsel has just done in the Travelgate case.) Sen. Arlen Specter’s investigatory committee should take the lead in holding the executive branch accountable. George W. Bush should campaign against the corruption of the Clinton-Gore years. The only way to end the scandals is to end this crowd’s stay in Washington.