Word: fabiani
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...relations between Clinton and the media, McCurry made it clear that he did not want scandal to be part of his portfolio. Through Whitewater and Donorgate, McCurry was able to shovel those questions to the counsel's office. But even while savvy, media-wise lawyers such as Mark Fabiani and his replacement Lanny Davis took the calls from investigative reporters, McCurry had to wage a vigorous internal campaign for openness. "What Mike McCurry has stood for is that if you give reporters all the facts up front, even before they ask for them, you stand a better chance of getting...
...referring to Indonesian billionaire James Riady [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 16], Margaret Carlson misstated a New York Times news article and confused it with an editorial. The facts of our article are indisputable: before the election, the White House ignored the advice of two of its lawyers, Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani, and withheld from the public information about President Clinton's meetings with Riady. On advice of Bruce Lindsey, the President's aide and good friend, the meetings, which included discussions of foreign policy, were simply called "social calls." Clinton's spokesman, Michael McCurry, has since acknowledged that "social calls...
...that the Times had torqued up a conflict." The article did not say that Sherburne had been "overruled" by Lindsey. The editorial did. Our article did quote Sherburne on the record. She confirmed the accuracy of the quotations before we published. Carlson also asserts that the other lawyer, Mark Fabiani, "has never confirmed the account." This is not true, according to White House officials. Carlson made no serious attempt to get the Times's side of the story. ANDREW ROSENTHAL, Washington Editor The New York Times Washington...
...Times news story never said that Sherburne and Fabiani were lied to or overruled by Lindsey. It said they were ignored. It was a Times editorial that used the word overruled. Fabiani says he was not overruled. Sherburne confirms that she also feels she was not overruled...
...York Times into a lather over these visits was Bruce Lindsey's characterization of them as social calls. According to a Times story by Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, Lindsey withheld information about the Riady meetings despite the recommendations of White House lawyers Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani. A Times editorial then called on Lindsey to resign. But while Sherburne was quoted in Gerth and Labaton's story, Fabiani has never confirmed the account. Sources close to Sherburne say that she never felt she had been overruled or lied to by Lindsey and that the Times torqued up a conflict...