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From the first years that Treasury Department agents were assigned full time to protect an American President--Theodore Roosevelt--discretion has been a working principle. Early in the century one of them wrote that unless they ignored presidential confidences that they saw or heard on the job, the Commander in Chief would never let them close enough to provide protection, and so a Secret Service agent, he wrote, must be "deaf, dumb and blind...
...agent has ever testified against a President in court. But no President has ever been pursued by anyone quite like Kenneth Starr, who wants to question agents about Bill Clinton's meetings with Monica Lewinsky. Last week the Secret Service hit back in court with a novel defense the Administration has been testing in public for a while. In a sealed court filing, lawyers for the Justice and Treasury departments argued that agents can refuse to testify because they are shielded by a "protective function" privilege similar to the one that covers spouses, doctors and clerics...
...contract runs for one year with an option for another and brings to an end the speculation over where the 6'3,", 270 pounder would be playing next year. He had been entertaining offers of free agent contracts from three NFL teams...
...unrestricted free agent in two years at worst. And if I stay in the CFL, veterans make two or three times what I'll be making...
...rookie, I have no idea about the next level," Fleiszer said. "I talked to [Harvard senior safety] Jeff Compas [who signed a free agent contract with the New England Patriots], and he said it's different because everyone is much better and there's more speed--everything happens fast...