Word: lindseyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr's strategy has been take-lots-of-prisoners. But with the notable exception of Lewinsky's mother Marcia, most of the people Starr brought before the grand jury have been small fry, White House stewards and Lewinsky-level junior aides. With last week's appearance by Bruce Lindsey, Clinton's closest adviser and top secret keeper, the independent counsel is going right for the President's inner circle. And so in addition to attacking Starr, the White House mounted a serious immune response, which may include the tricky claim of Executive privilege to shield Lindsey and other top aides...
...knows the meaning of the word confidential, Lindsey is Clinton's one-man inner sanctum, privy to his thinking on everything from Saddam Hussein to the bimbo eruptions that Lindsey helped contain during the '92 campaign. He also helped prepare Clinton's deposition in the Paula Jones case last month and might know something about the talking points that Lewinsky is supposed to have given to Tripp to guide her testimony in the Jones case...
WASHINGTON: After weeks of watching and waiting, President Clinton is reportedly ready to take his biggest legal leap against Ken Starr. According to several news organizations, Clinton has began steps to invoke executive privilege in an attempt to edit top aide Bruce Lindsey's testimony before Starr's grand jury. White House aides would neither confirm nor deny the report...
...obvious implication: Lindsey knows too much. After Lindsey took a pass on a few too many questions while on the stand, Starr's prosecutors filed a motion to compel further testimony. Apparently unable to stomach that possibility, the White House has now locked arms with Starr in a legal skydive that will start soon in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's chambers -- and probably end in the Supreme Court...
...Neither side wanted this," says TIME deputy Washington bureau chief Jef McAllister. To have a chance, the White House will have to prove that Clinton's discussions with Lindsey on Monicagate damage control were vital to official government business -- a tall legal order. And the already sagging White House morale will not be helped by a round of news stories that are eerily reminiscent of Nixon's ultimately fruitless Supreme Court battle to keep the tapes private. On Ken Starr's side, fighting the privilege -- which may soon be extended to a slew of other White House confidants -- could bring...