Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adults, however, dutifully fell on their sword. On Wednesday, Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman submitted his resignation amid accusations that he misled lawmakers during Senate testimony; the next day Treasury general counsel Jean Hanson resigned...
Altman and Hanson will probably not be the last Whitewater sacrifices. Warns an Administration source: "The people who have fed the beast should not assume the beast is happy." Last week the New York Times reported that before being replaced, independent counsel Robert Fiske had widened his inquiries to include the finances of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign...
...late for Kenneth Starr to quit as the new Whitewater independent counsel. And he should. In fact, it's the Republicans rather than the Democrats who should be urging his resignation. Consider the two possible outcomes of Starr's investigation and the way in which the White House will spin them. If Starr determines the Clintons did something wrong, he'll be tarred for partisanship. If he exonerates them, the Administration will crow that even a conservative Republican found the Clintons innocent. "That sounds sensible," says a Republican Senator, "but if Starr slams Clinton, we think the facts will drown...
...hear Faircloth tell it, he and Sentelle (and Senator Jesse Helms, who was also present) talked about Western hats, old friends and prostate problems. Sentelle, however, has said only that "to the best of my recollection," he and the Senators didn't discuss the imminent selection of a new counsel. "Those words have been criticized at the Whitewater hearings as a convenient way for people to forget what happened," says New York University Law School professor Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics. "And now we have a federal judge choosing someone to investigate the President who claims...
...problem here concerns appearances. The independent-counsel law, enacted 15 years ago in the wake of Watergate, was a response to the public's growing distrust of its leaders. The law accepted the assumption that an Administration should not investigate itself. It understood that a government deriving its legitimacy from the consent of the governed must not only act forthrightly but appear to do so. Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence...