1.   It greatly undermines his claim to having more public integrity and consistency than the inexhaustibly elastic Clinton.

2.   Carl Stern, a spokesman for Ms. Reno, said that he expected the division would send the letter to its public integrity section.

3.   He has replaced many former investigators with new faces and created a new title, public integrity, for the operation.

4.   LaBella succeeded in taking control, but public integrity lawyers continued to operate as a separate faction, official said, urging Reno to reject an independent prosecutor.

5.   Justice Department lawyers in the public integrity section have been reviewing the taped material for three months.

6.   Some Justice Department officials said the issue would probably be turned over to the public integrity unit at the Justice Department headquarters, which prosecutes official corruption cases.

7.   Still, there are times when the paper you work for acts with the kind of instutional courage, social conscience and public integrity that simply cannot be ignored.

8.   The discrepancy has contributed to the decision by Justice Department public integrity officials to ask Reno to seek an independent counsel.

9.   The district attorney said Friday that her public integrity unit was reviewing the lawsuit as part of a broader investigation into City Hall.