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...Williams & Connolly, David Kendall's firm, says Ruth, "they litigate every case the same way, and that's hardball. Give 'em nothing, tell 'em nothing, delay, fight at every turn. But when you're defending the President, you can't run a defense like you would for a private citizen," he says. Result: "Just like in the White House, after all the attacks, the prosecutor gets his own bunker mentality and starts to figure, O.K., this is a war." And by the time the White House began attacking Starr for zealotry and moonlighting and hiring aggressive deputies, Starr felt...
...American citizen to try to imagine what he would do if confronted by the squalid and surreal choice facing his President: stonewall or confess. One person--one only--made the disgusting mess: Bill Clinton. Let him find...
...conventional wisdom of some in the Washington legal community, the move bordered on bullying, overly aggressive and right on the edge of prosecutorial ethics. Clinton over the years has shown a great capacity for self-pity, but in this sense it is partly deserved: no ordinary citizen would face Clinton's present excruciating legal bind. No ordinary errant male would face a special prosecutor with four years of relatively slim results and an ever expanding mandate to search for potential illegality. No regular prosecutor could spend unlimited resources prosecuting perjury in a civil deposition about a sexual matter...
...more intriguing last week when the heretofore academic question of whether the President can be subpoenaed became a very, very real one. Although the move put both sides into uncharted legal territory, it seems fairly certain that a sitting President--unlike Whitewater defendant Susan McDougal or any other ordinary citizen--cannot be sent to jail for contempt. One response Clinton can make to the subpoena is to move to quash it. Failing that, if he refuses to testify, the question of whether he must comply immediately goes to Congress. It is Congress that would then decide whether to hold hearings...
...TIME congressional correspondent James Carney says that the conventional wisdom about midterm elections -- that they are won by the turnout of party loyalists, i.e., the religious right -- will keep the GOP moderates relegated to their customary place in the wings (just ask private citizen William Weld). "Winning over moderate voters will be crucial in the presidential election," he says, "but in the midterms, you win by getting out your core voters...