SpotNews 05-07-97 22:20PST Tracking the Clintons and Their Friends ____________________________________________________ NEWS A highly unusual and potentially serious split is emerging between Louis Freeh and Janet Reno over the need to seek an independent prosecutor to investigate possible wrongdoing in Democratic fund raising for President Clinton's re-election. (NEW YORK TIMES) Bill Burton, a former aide to presidential counselor Mack McLarty, spent Wednesday before the federal grand jury investigating the White House's role in securing controversial payments to Whitewater witness Webster Hubbell. (AP) Hillary Rodham Clinton co-signed "two or three" checks Whitewater figure Webster Hubbell wrote while stealing $485,000 from his Rose law partners, the firm's top officer has told investigators. (NEW YORK POST) Erskine Bowles leaving ... (BOSTON GLOBE) Erskine Bowles staying ... (WHITE HOUSE) ``I just don't know how he ever got so much involved in all this, Charlie (Yah Lin Trie) was a friendly, fun-loving guy.'' (GARY MIDDLETON) The Justice Department is in the early stages of investigating the failure of George Tenet, President Clinton's nominee to head the CIA, to disclose his part interest in stocks and property inherited from his father. (REUTER) Jamie S. Gorelick, who recently resigned as the Justice Department's No. 2 official, has been appointed vice chairwoman and a director of Fannie Mae (AP) ____________________________________________________ ARTICLES [643 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=1302493&hilit=CIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&1479817 Score: 86 Subject: Freedom of privacy & thoughts