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...Clinton Administration made some "regrettable" missteps in trying to monitor the Whitewater investigation, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler told Congress on the first day of hearings into the matter. But he was quick to add that neither the President nor his staff did anything illegal or unethical when administration officials met with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack...
White House counsel Lloyd Cutler described President Clinton as "pleased that there was no basis for criminal proceedings." George Stephanopoulos, one of Clinton's closest political advisers and among those cleared of criminal wrongdoing, told TIME that Fiske's report is "not surprising, but of course, it's gratifying...
...agencies about cases "involving persons in the government or anything of particular interest to the questioner." Fiske noted that his inquiry was limited to criminal violations and that "we express no opinion on the propriety" of the contacts or whether they "constitute a breach of ethical rules or standards." Cutler reiterated last week a sentiment the President conceded in March. "Some of these contacts," he said, "may have been inadvisable, in hindsight...
While Clinton quickly dispatched the Watkins episode, his own ethical controversies require far more sensitive handling. White House counsel Lloyd Cutler indicated last week that he would ask a federal judge in Little Rock to postpone consideration of Paula Corbin Jones' sexual-harassment suit against Clinton on the grounds that a President should not be distracted by civil litigation while in office. Cutler's strategy would seem to avoid the suggestion that the President is above the law while postponing the possibility of unseemly depositions until later. This legal course virtually ensures that Clinton can avoid dealing with the Jones...
...with the question of whether or not to file a sexual- harassment suit against the President. The latter story line was echoed in the recent two-hour season finale of Melrose Place, a currently hot nighttime soap that was floundering until old pro Heather Locklear -- a sort of Lloyd Cutler with dark roots -- was brought in to get the show on track...