Word: counseling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, just hours after the hearings had come to a close, the nightmare began again. A three-judge panel in Washington stunned the White House by replacing independent counsel Robert Fiske, who had been chosen by Attorney General Janet Reno in January, with Kenneth Starr, a tough, conservative lawyer who served as solicitor general under George Bush. The panel, acting under a law passed by Congress earlier this year, wanted to guarantee that the Whitewater investigation would be truly independent...
...Fiske when he was first appointed, lately many of them have complained about a lack of aggressiveness in Fiske's investigation and his ties to some members of the Administration. Leading the chorus was Senator Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, who pointed out last week that former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum had once recommended Fiske for a job with the Iran-contra independent counsel...
...forwarded a memorandum to the First Lady that sheds light on a central question of the Whitewater affair: What deep, dark secret would compel so many senior Administration officials to attempt intervention in a probe that should have been immune from politics? The memo, written by White House associate counsel Neil Eggleston, warned that the RTC could sue "the President and Mrs. Clinton" if Clinton's 1984 campaign "knowingly received diverted Madison assets" or if "the Clintons knowingly received other diverted Madison Guaranty assets through Whitewater...
Most likely, not a single White House official knows whether that happened. But just because it may be true, the Clintons' campaign-tested damage-control team swung into action in February. Even White House counsel Lloyd Cutler got into the act, withholding the Eggleston memo from lawmakers until last Monday night, releasing it only under pressure from Congress...
...recuse himself from any oversight of the Madison investigation. The reason was obvious: staying in place would create a conflict of interest as the RTC investigated a case involving his friend, the President. But stepping aside would mean that responsibility for the investigation would fall entirely to RTC general counsel Ellen Kulka, who had no ties to the Clintons. Kulka and Treasury counsel Jean Hanson had urged Altman to recuse himself. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen agreed but left the decision to Altman...