Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer Ken Starr chases Bill Clinton, the more the independent counsel comes to resemble his quarry. Like the President, Starr is developing a tendency to get a little momentum going, then do something to trip himself up. Last February, for instance, he told a federal judge that he had received important new information from the Clintons' former business partner Jim McDougal on a key portion of the investigation. Nine days later, Starr announced that he was abandoning the Whitewater probe to become a California law-school dean. (A chorus of jeers forced him to reconsider.) And in a major victory...
Sources close to Starr told TIME that the counsel's foray into Clinton's romantic life was driven partly by frustration and partly by a fastidious nature that wants to run down every lead. Decision time on prosecutions is near, they say, and with some sources of information apparently closed off, Starr is doing a final casting of the net. Susan McDougal has sat behind bars since last fall for refusing to cooperate, and former Justice Department official Webster Hubbell, who has already done hard time, says he won't help Starr further. In searching for other confidants, Starr hopes...
...grand jury appearance. Starr is looking for evidence that the First Lady lied in sworn statements, especially about the Foster matter or the disappearance and reappearance of her Rose Law Firm billing records. The White House says the notes are not incriminating, and most legal observers doubt the independent counsel will bring perjury charges against Hillary Clinton...
...protect children it would also keep adults from getting material they have a legal right to see. That gives CDA forces hope that they'll be able to revisit the issue. "The opinion gives us a good road map to what the courts will allow," says Bob Flores, senior counsel of the National Law Center for Children and Families. Vows Don Hodel, the recently installed president of the Christian Coalition: "We won't accept this as the last word...
...President's previous assertions that he does not recall making telephone solicitations from the executive mansion, but cannot rule out the possibility. In the meantime, until a clarification of the existing law comes down the pipe, the White House appears content to play legal hopscotch. While White House counsel reportedly advised employees not to make any phone solicitations from federal property, Gore has said he understood they were legal if made with a political credit card...