GOP Looking at Clemency Motives

Seeking the reasons why President Clinton offered clemency to 16 Puerto Rican nationalists, Republicans plan to start using legislative tools this week hoping to pry loose secret administration documents. One top Republican said he already has the answer. “Almost anybody with any brains would conclude” Clinton issued the order to help his wife’s Senate bid in New York, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and GOP presidential hopeful, said on “Fox News Sunday.” Democrats countered that Clinton is too savvy a campaigner to take such a political action purely to help Hillary Rodham Clinton in a state with 1.3 million Puerto Ricans.