Word: legally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ALEX HUNTER was not so quick to completely clear him, and relations further soured when White wrote Governor ROY ROMER, urging him to replace Hunter with a special prosecutor. "Fleet is anxious to testify and tell his story," says an acquaintance. "He's just been waiting for the right legal venue." The grand jury may call him as early as next month...
Although it is too strong to say, as a White House staff member did last week, that "there is now settled law that the President can't consult with his closest advisers," the whole White House staff feels under siege. Some legal experts suggest this shouldn't affect the normal, noncriminal workings of the White House, but that's too technical a reading, especially in a climate when so much that is political has the potential to be criminalized. "Who's to say that there might not be a criminal investigation into the granting of waivers for satellite launches...
...instead, both of them bad: form independent and probably unaccountable shadow cabinets outside government, to whom they can go for sensitive advice; or, worse yet, keep their own counsel entirely. And getting good advice in the future will depend on talented people being willing to expose themselves to new legal risks. "If somebody asked me to serve now," says Rozell, "I'd say 'No way.' You'd have to be independently wealthy even to think about it." Some White House staff members in private moments express bitterness about how their friends and colleagues have been hounded and forced...
Then comes the hardest part of all: bringing the terrorists to justice. Although the U.S. claims the legal right to try anyone for the murder of an American citizen abroad, prosecutors first have to get their hands on the suspect, and that has proved a major stumbling block even in cases where miscreants are firmly identified. Libya has refused to extradite the accused bombers of Pan Am 103; Saudi Arabia insists on investigating, trying and punishing suspects, like the four men beheaded for blowing up a U.S. training center in Riyadh in 1995, without ever letting the FBI interrogate them...
...writing while sitting in a living-room chair with its back at an angle to a picture window. The midsummer morning light strikes my legal notepad. August has slipped in like a lover. Every once in a while I turn toward the window and see, over my left shoulder, a tall pine tree that has split into two trunks at its base. The dead lower branches have been severed, leaving large tan coins on the bark. But the tree flourishes near the top in an array of green fans that rise and fall like a queen's hand. All shades...