JANET RENO IS NOT WELL
SO, WHY IS SHE STILL THERE?
By: Barbara Stanley
Last evening, I watched a bit of a hearing on C-SPAN, and George Tenant, CIA Chief, was saying there was no excuse for a report being stalled for almost two years in relation to the spying that has been rife in the nuclear community. I remember writing an article, way back when, about then CIA head Deutsch, and a speech he made in which he referred to the international community as "clients." If I was suspicious about Deutsch years ago, why wasn't anyone else?
As George Tenant jived and shucked his way through a whining "There is no excuse" I thought "since when is incompetence an excuse?" If I tried that line on my boss, I would be out on my can, post haste. You see, in my world, incompetence is an embarrassment and not a reason for a job done badly. In the real world, the bottom line is whether you can produce or not, and if not, somebody's always waiting in the wings to have my seat.
Then later on, I heard Sen. Arlan Spector (R-PA) say something about letting the Justice Department handle the matter. Huh? Does Justice handle matters of, well, Justice? Under Janet Reno, the DOJ has become a black hole in which investigations disappear, never to be seen of, or heard from, or about ,again. Ever. Unless the investigation is centered around a republican, then it's damn the torpedoes, full stop.XXXXX
I have had more occasions than is healthy for my own sanity to watch Reno at her (non)briefings and have learned two important things. One, Janet is really sick, and two, she shakes like a hurricane when she is forced to answer a tough question. It's not at all hard to miss. Her normal tremor increases measurably and her whole body joins in as she gives that standard non-answer about not commenting on an on-going investigation. Well, what the hell is she being paid for? When she places her hands under the table, presumably on her lap, to hide the shaking, it looks just like she is in Jocelyn Elders camp, and is 'practicing', as it were. All in all, not a pleasant site. I almost expect Jerry Springer to jump up, shove a microphone in her face and ask her a probing question about her Florida past, in which she was actually stopped by a traffic cop, as she drunkenly drove home from an S&M bar. I can only imagine the patrolman's face when he got a load of 'Shakes the Clown' in her full leather outfit. I would just like to state for the record, S&M is not my idea of a resume factoid for head job at the Justice department. Talk about your ripe -for -blackmail government high official!
I want to know what her health status is. I want to know what drugs she is taking, as any medication could potentially affect her job. Or rather, her lack of work product. Since this corrupt administration took over, the Justice Department, has, de facto, become the
Clintons' secret police. As long as the money winds up at the DNC, no investigation seems to be forthcoming, and the excuse of snafu is trotted out as some kind of panacea for the press. My standards, however, are much higher than the medias' and I would like answers to my questions. Of course, I'm not holding my breath.
At the last State of the Union big-bucks-giveaway-vote-buying- speech, I noticed that Lloyd Bentsen was also suffering from the same kind of shaking a la Reno, as well as on another occasion in which I noticed the Secretary of Education Riley's tremor. What is it with all this trembling? Are they so cowed as to actually quake in their boots when near enough to this president and his famous wrath? I have seen mistreated animals shiver so, and I want to know why this is not noticed or mentioned in the press. Or anywhere, for that matter.
There is one bright spot in this dark landscape, and that is the internet. I, for one, will not be at all sad to see the liberal media eclipsed by the actual news that makes it out to those online. Thank God for the information age. I await the day when the media damn is bypassed and the truth gets out. Then maybe we won't have to suffer another sick Attorney General.
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Barbara Stanley is a staff writer for Ether Zone.
Barbara can be reached at base@warwick.net
Published in the February 7, 2000 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright ¸ 2000 Ether Zone (http://etherzone.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact.
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