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- <text id=93TT2405>
- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: A for Abuse
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 17
- A for Abuse
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The FBI director gets a failing grade from the Justice Department
- </p>
- <p> Federal Bureau of Investigation Director William Sessions is
- called "the Emperor" by the G-men who work for him. A scathing
- 161-page report by the Justice Department makes clear why.
- Sessions, the report says, "systematically abused his security
- detail" by dispatching it on errands or bumping it from FBI
- planes to make room for his wife Alice. Former Attorney General
- William Barr ordered Sessions to pay back taxes for using his
- chauffeured limousine for commuting to the office and to refund
- nearly $10,000 for a wooden fence installed by the agency around
- his house. At a 90-minute Saturday press conference, Sessions
- defended his record and blamed the report on "an animus, an
- anger, an animosity by Mr. Barr for Mr. Sessions."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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