Word: counseled
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...Secretary Hank Paulson and New York Fed chief Tim Geithner have been working around the clock for weeks now, putting out fire after fire. Besides having to comprehend and solve the mind-bending financial woes of some of the world's biggest companies, they are also briefing and seeking counsel from CEOs of the surviving companies, never mind President George W. Bush and the two presidential candidates, plus central bankers from around the globe...
...Cheney and his legal counsel, David Addington, effectively steer White House policy on the warrantless wiretapping program. "With Bush's consent , Cheney unleashed foreign intelligence agencies to spy at home ... It is unlikely that the history of U.S. intelligence includes another operation conceived and supervised by the office of the vice president." When the Deputy Attorney General refuses to re-authorize the program, the stubbornness of Cheney and his team almost leads to mass resignations at the Justice Department...
Others sought to lend what assistance they could. Having been unable to break through the firm's jammed phone lines, Jason Cohen, a psychiatrist in private practice, made the one hour, 40 min. drive Monday morning from Freehold, N.J. with the intention of offering counsel to dumbstruck employees. But after witnessing the scene unfolding on the sidewalk, he decided to hold back. "I don't have the heart to approach people carrying boxes out of their offices," he says...
...normal circumstances, Colberg's office would have represented the governor in the inquiry, but Colberg admitted in August that he was among the dozen or so members of Palin's staff and family who contacted Monegan about Wooten. So Colberg had to recuse himself, and the state hired independent counsel to defend the governor...
...incident “the tip of a very large iceberg” and said that Harvard’s response to concerns about racial profiling in the past have been inadequate.“We’ve taken up these discussions with deans, the president, the general counsel, and pointed out there’s a conflict of interest in the current structure and that the general counsel therefore has not responded with an effort to solve the problem where it lies,” he said. “We’ve been stonewalled...