By Pete Yost Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Independent Counsel Robert Ray won't prosecute anyone in the White House travel office controversy, and is putting the finishing touches on a report likely to be made public before Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign ends, officials say.

The decision marks the second since Ray took over for the oft-criticized Kenneth Starr that he has closed down an inquiry without any prosecutions in the long-running independent counsel investigation of the Clintons.

Previously, Ray announced there would be no prosecutions regarding the White House's gathering of FBI background files on former Republican administration employees.

[Actually, Ray previously said,

''there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official, or first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was involved in seeking confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation background reports of former White House staff from the prior administrations of President Bush and President Reagan.''

but that doesn't fit Pete Yost's "won't prosecute" slant on the TravelGate story.]

Pete Yost's full story

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This is now. This was then... How CNN reported the TravelGate story in 1996:

Prosecutors Wanted Dale Indicted Before '94 Elections

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 26, 1996) -- It's been a bad day for the Clinton Administration. As House Republicans were roasting White House aides over the FBI file flap for what they said was either rank incompetence or devious criminality, in the background simmering was a new and related revelation that federal prosecutors wanted to indict former White House travel director Billy Dale before the 1994 mid-term elections.