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...TIME THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION WAS DETERmined to get it right. Haunted by the Zoe Baird debacle, officials vowed there would be no premature announcement, no surprise about illegal aliens, no misreading of public sentiment. So, while staff members completed their check of candidates for the post of Attorney General, the White House floated the name of New York Federal District Judge Kimba Wood to coax any opposition out into the open. When none emerged, word leaked from the White House that the Wood nomination was almost a sure thing. Then last Friday night came the awful deja vu. Again...
...White House version portrays Wood as failing to disclose all the details early in the process. Officials claim that when she was first reached by phone while vacationing in Colorado, she was asked, "Do you have an illegal-alien or tax problem?" She answered no. She was then summoned to Washington. In separate meetings on Jan. 29 with White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and President Clinton, the illegal-alien issue was pressed a second and third time. In each instance, Wood denied any problem. Six days later, the vetting process began in earnest. Wood sent her household-employment records...
...contact in Colorado. Asked about a "Zoe Baird problem," she answered that in regard to her baby-sitter, she had complied with all laws and paid all taxes. At the time, Wood was not asked, , and she did not offer, that the baby-sitter had once been an illegal alien. On Friday, Wood released a statement that offered her side of the story. It said that employment of an illegal alien was within the law as it stood at the time and that even when the law was changed eight months later to forbid such hirings, it excluded employees hired...
...fresh round of bickering. Late last week White House officials were chastising Nussbaum for not pressing his would-be nominee hard enough for information. The two other top candidates for the Attorney General's post seemed to lose favor. Washington lawyer Charles Ruff was said to have illegal- alien problems of his own, while former Virginia Governor Gerald Baliles lacked enthusiastic support. If so, Clinton will have to send out his search party one more time...
That sentiment was echoed by a recent posting on the WELL. "I didn't get to pop some 'shrooms and dance naked in a park with several hundred of my peers," wrote a cyberpunk wannabe who calls himself Alien. "To me, and to a lot of other generally disenfranchised members of my generation, surfing the edges...