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Which Way, L.A.?

What Cost Public Service?

Janet Reno has requested a fourth special prosecutor to investigate a member of President Clinton's cabinet. Bruce Babbitt says he's done no wrong and decries the high personal cost of public service. Are we too investigator happy? What should public servants expect as far as public scrutiny?

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By Warren Olney • Feb 13, 1998 • 1 min read

Peter Overby: National Public Radio Reporter, based in Washington. Mike Galudin: Special Assistant and Director of Communications for Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit. Mark Goff: Spokesman for the Four Feathers Casino Partnership, whose casino plans were turned down by the Interior Department and that subsequently sued. Lyn Nofziger: Consultant, Carmen Group,. Former press secretary for President Reagan, former official in both Reagan and Nixon White Houses. Erwin Chemerinsky: Professor of law, University of Southern California, specialist in constitutional law. Member of elected City Charter Reform Commission. James Maddock: FBI Special Agent in Charge, Sacramento Division. Former Deputy General Counsel at FBI Headquarters State Senator John Burton: Newly elected Senate Majority leader, Democratic Senator from San Francisco. Richard Norton: Principal, Berger and Norton, a Santa Monica law firm specializing in representing property owners whos property has been taken or damaged. Congressman Bob Barr: Republican Congressman from Georgia.

topic: El Nino Slide Liability

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Frances Anderton

    architecture critic and author

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