Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same goes for Starr's approval ratings, which were already abysmal -- and will surely sink further now that the White House has gleefully renewed calls for the independent counsel to close up shop. What does Starr care? He's not a politician -- he's just...
...between Ken Starr and the Clinton administration got a heap of ammunition Wednesday. First, a General Accounting Office audit of the prosecutor's Whitewater probe shows Starr spending $30 million in taxpayer dollars over four years. That makes Starr's the most spendthrift of the six independent counsel probes now under way, and means his probe is nearing the $40 million cost of the most expensive independent counsel probe ever conducted, Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation...
...alleged pattern is meant to buttress Jones' claim that after she refused Clinton's sexual advances at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel in 1991, her career with the state of Arkansas was roadblocked. But the filing may do even more to help explain the leads independent counsel Kenneth Starr is pursuing as he tries to build a broader obstruction case against Clinton in the matter of Monica Lewinsky. For a scandal-weary public trying to make sense of it all, the Clinton depicted in these documents is a chilling character indeed: not the charming rogue of Primary Colors...
...aide who worked out the deal, Browning says, was White House deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey. Back in Arkansas, it was chief of staff Betsey Wright who quieted the "bimbo eruptions"--a phrase she coined--so the Clinton show could go on. Last week's filings assert that Lindsey has taken on that role in the White House. Independent counsel Ken Starr is so interested in Lindsey that he has called him before the grand jury three times in two months. The relentlessly low-profile Lindsey has always been an enigmatic figure, best known for playing late-night games of hearts...
...White House for the past six years. Lindsey has been Clinton's friend and traveling companion, as well as his adviser on matters ranging from Whitewater to the campaign-finance investigation. His nicknames have run the gamut from "the Enforcer" to "the Consigliere," the Sicilian word for a trusted counsel to a Mafia chieftain. He is, by most accounts, Clinton's closest confidant apart from the First Lady...