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...some of her allies expect Miers to impress the Senators with her strength and savvy. "To stand one on one in the Oval Office, and for the President to turn to you and say, 'What do you recommend?' you have to be confident, prepared, articulate and smart," says Brett Kavanaugh, Miers' successor as White House staff secretary. "She's done it for five years now." Given the hostility directed toward her, Miers could now at least benefit, as her President so often has, from the advantage of low expectations. --Reported by Mike Allen, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper and Viveca Novak...
...Kavanaugh said Absoult Thursday helped foster house spirit...
...having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent counsel probe, is now ensconced in the White House counsel's office. And Tim Griffin, a former Burton investigator, has been operating in a sort of free-floating capacity in DOJ's criminal division since long before Chertoff joined...
...ultimate question for Starr is what to do legally with the case that fell short politically. A sign that an indictment isn't imminent is the departure for private practice of Starr's day-to-day manager of the Lewinsky probe, Bob Bittman, and his top appellate litigator, Brett Kavanaugh. Soon after the trial ends, Starr will come under pressure to shut it all down and return to private practice. He is famously immune to such pressure, but if he decides not to indict Clinton, there's little reason to keep going. He could hand his open cases...
Both Cash and his lawyer, Thomas E. Pisch, of the Boston Firm Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Pisch and Ford, did not respond to numerous requests for comment over a period of several days...