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...Senate Whitewater hearings drew to a close today with last-minute witness David Margolis, as associate deputy attorney general,flatly contradicting the testimony of former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum. According to Margolis, the White House and the Department of Justice agreed on the day after Vincent Foster's death on a plan for searching his office. Under the plan, Department of Justice lawyers with security clearances would briefly scan each document for highly-sensitive content, then turn over every other document to the Park Police. But when Margolis arrived for the search the next day, Nussbaum, he says, told...
Republicans believe Thomases may have had better knowledge of the papers than anyone else except Foster. She appears to have been concerned about White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum's plan for a second search of Foster's office two days after the suicide. Just after 8 that morning, Thomases paged Nussbaum, who was set to conduct a search in the presence of Justice Department lawyers. According to a deposition obtained by Time, Nussbaum said Thomases asked him "what was going on with respect to ... the examination of Mr. Foster's office." Nussbaum said Thomases wondered if "it was proper...
...Senate Whitewater hearings lumbered into their second week. The most dramatic testimony: a Secret Service officer who testified that he had seen the First Lady's chief of staff, Maggie Williams, remove files from deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office on the night of his suicide-and Williams' emphatic testimony that she had done no such thing. The handling of Foster's files are at the heart of allegations that the White House impeded the investigation into his death in order to protect the Clintons from Whitewater disclosures...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich testified behind closed Ethics Committee doors for three hours about the propriety of his controversial book deal. Afterward, the senior Democrat on the committee accused the panel of botching the probe by refusing to conduct a full-fledged formal investigation with subpoena powers and outside counsel...
...made this decision all by herself." Zeliff didn't stop there: "We had a tank that went through that front door, went into that area where women and children were there (and) we killed over 80 people," he said. In a letter to Zeliff today, White House Counsel Abner Mikva said the comments were "nothing short of irresponsible, intent on creating a story without any news and alleging a scandal without any basis." Republican colleagues on the panel today appeared to distance themselves from the charges. Rep. Steven Schiff (R-N.M.) said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...