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...lawyer knowledgeable about the case said Bush directed that the material "be put out to the press and charged the Vice President with doing it, without saying when or where or how." A senior Administration official said the President had "no idea" of "Scooter's role or who he would be talking to" and gave no "tactical authorization" for putting out the material...
...told reporters the day after the body was discovered that investigators had interviewed Hayley Kissel and that she had been cooperative. The widow spoke only through her attorney. "She right now is focused on her children and trying to help them cope with the loss of their father," says lawyer Joseph Martini. According to Martini, Kissel's father asked his son's widow to stay away from Andrew's funeral. "She plans to make other arrangements so that her children can say goodbye to their father," he says...
Burkle spokesman Michael Sitrick insists that "the tapes show that Mr. Burkle made it very clear he had no interest" in any business deal with Stern. Stern's lawyer, Edward Hayes, says Burkle has "gotten some pretty good revenge on Page Six. Hopefully it will just be dropped there...
...slipping across the border with Papua New Guinea. "We have not received any serious international attention by seeking asylum in P.N.G.," says Wainggai through an interpreter. "We decided that because of Australia's role in taking responsibility in the Pacific area we would come here." The group's lawyer, David Manne, says all have suffered at the hands of the military, including "quite a number who have witnessed massacres," and that their family and friends report being harassed since the group's escape. Some of the refugees, including Wainggai, have spent time in jail for raising the separatist Morning Star...
...DeLay: Well, I'm not getting into the specific. You want to talk to my lawyer, go ahead. What we did-no, actually what TRMPAC [Texans for a Republican Majority, a political action committee founded by DeLay] did was consistent with what has been done by the Democrats as well as the Republicans for years. They took moneys that were legally raised from corporate interests that was more than they could use, sent that money-corporate funds and soft moneys-to the Republican National Committee so that they could take those funds and put them in states that accepted, legally...