Word: lindseyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
...make sure someone wasn't pretending to be Wright's clerk for an April Fools' joke. He put his hand over the phone and asked his associate Amy Sabrin to call the judge's chambers and make sure about the ruling. She did, and by the time Bruce Lindsey answered and handed the phone to the President, Bennett was ready to start spreading the news. At first Clinton too thought it was a trick. "You gotta be kidding!" he shouted, and then said, "If I was there, I would give you a big kiss. But then you'd have...
Clinton: Bruce Lindsey came to me in the hotel in Dakar and told me to call Bob Bennett, who gave me the news. I asked if it was an April Fools' joke. And he said it wasn't and explained it to me. I thanked him and his team for their good work, then went and told Hillary. Then we got with some friends at the hotel and had dinner, talked about Africa and how pleased we were with our trip...
Starr ignored the fracas and focused on the goal of sending his report to Congress before the midsummer recess. In meeting that deadline, he faces another stumbling block: the refusal of White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal to answer certain questions about their discussions with the President and First Lady because, the White House claims, the conversations are covered by Executive privilege...
...Second, a New York Times report says White House lawyers are waging a clandestine court battle over executive privilege -- invoking it not just in Clinton's name, but in Hillary's and Bruce Lindsey's too. The upshot: Starr looks like a profligate, and Clinton looks like he's doing some major stonewalling. Nobody wins...