Word: counsels
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...tactic, humility was clearly not an option. Not for Bernie Nussbaum. In repeated exchanges with Republicans on the special Senate Whitewater committee last week, the former White House counsel defiantly insisted that he had done exactly the right thing in July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably...
...took genuine interest in my sister's plight," said Dinh, who is now an associate special counsel to the U.S. Senate...
TIME: Is it true that you were denied counsel three times when you were arrested? Will you make this an issue...
McVeigh: It's true that I had trouble obtaining counsel. Whether I'll make it an issue or not, again, we'll see in court...
...Administration took its biggest lumps yet at the Senate Whitewater hearings. Former Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann testified he had angrily complained to then White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum about the integrity of a search of deputy counsel Vincent Foster's office that took place shortly after Foster's suicide. Heymann said it was a "terrible mistake" and a "misuse" of the department to have kept Justice officials sitting and watching while Nussbaum searched through Foster's papers for clues to his death. The solo search, Republicans charge, may have been part of an effort to keep Whitewater documents under...