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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (34506)	9/4/2000 1:00:59 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore blinks, Reno changes mind. Dang. I really hoped they were stupid enough to "take on" the Boy Scouts. By the way, this little episode highlights one of the supreme dangers of the escalating Federal land grab. You're a member of a group on the political outs, "your" land is off limits to you. WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno, under pressure from the White House, decided abruptly that the Interior Department doesn't have to cut ties with the Boy Scouts because they don't admit gays. Reno's decision defused what had become a touchy campaign issue: whether the Boy Scouts should be allowed to have their annual jamboree on federal land and receive camping clinics from U.S. Park Rangers. The Interior Department raised the question in a memo to the Justice Department, basing it on President Clinton's executive order in June barring the government from conducting education and training programs for groups that discriminate against homosexuals. Reno ruled that Clinton's order "does not preclude the holding of Boy Scout Jamborees on federal lands." Reno's ruling Friday night came as surprise. Earlier Friday, Cristine Romano, a lawyer for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said she didn't expect a decision for several more days. Romano said the Justice Department had sent the memo back to the Interior Department, explaining that Justice's lawyers needed more information in order to make a decision. But a Justice official said yesterday that lawyers in the White House Counsel's Office wanted a prompt decision from Reno - although White House and Justice officials both claim the White House didn't pressure Reno which way to decide.[ROTFL] Reno frequently tells reporters that she never makes decisions until she has all the information available to her. The Justice official said the White House was in contact with Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, which is separate from the Civil Rights Division, which was under the impression that it was handling the Scouts issue. nypost.com