Word: client
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...faxed to the senators minutes before they voted 10-8 along Party lines to ask the full Senate to enforce a subpoena of Kennedy's notes within 24 hours, also would have allowed them to question four presidential aides who attended the meeting. But having for weeks cited attorney-client privilege, the President attached important conditions to the deal: Clinton's private attorneys could not have been questioned, the committee had to agree that the meeting was still privileged, and other Whitewater investigative bodies must agree to the terms. "This offer is reasonable," notes TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "since...
President Clinton has refused to turn over the meeting notes of former White House counsel William Kennedy to the Senate committee investigating Whitewater, citing attorney-client privilege and raising the possibility that he might resort to executive privilege if necessary. "From a public relations standpoint, this is bad," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "because it raises the question in people's minds of why Clinton would block this if he has nothing to hide." Senate Whitewater Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato urged the President to reconsider, and said that the public has the right to know what went...
...been skeptical of executive privilege. And there is something troubling about a president saying 'by virtue of my office, I'm at least a little bit above the law.' That said, there is a considerable precedent for the courts allowing a number of other special privileges, such as attorney-client and priest-penitent." Cohen says Clinton's lawyers were probably only covering all the bases by also citing executive privilege: "Often in legal papers, people make every argument they think is relevant, just in case their first argument, which they feel is their strongest point, is rejected...
...with a court order seeking to prevent him from making money on his story. The order bars Leeson, his wife and his lawyer from earning money by selling their version of the Barings collapse story while Leeson is in Singapore. A lawyer for Leeson says his client, who has signed a deal reportedly five-figure deal to write his life story , is practically broke and that any proceeds from a book would go toward paying his lawyers in England, Germany and Singapore...
...world for whom he had more respect and admiration than Don King. "He is an enormously strong man, a man of decency, and I think the world should know it," said Fleming, who had actually summoned up tears during his closing arguments. Asked where his client was going that morning, Fleming said, "Don is going to church...