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WASHINGTON: Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey's inexorable march back toward Ken Starr's witness stand took another big step today -- and this time he's going to have to say something. Though an appeal to the Supreme Court is still an option (and a likely one), the appeals court's decision Monday that attorney-client privilege does not apply to government lawyers such as Lindsey is yet another victory for Ken Starr. And like the decision that got the Secret Service singing for Starr last week, this one -- or the expectation of it, anyway -- has already had a chilling effect...
...White House has seen this coming for a while," says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Jef McAllister. "The President only talks to David Kendall now -- and Kendall, as his personal lawyer, only talks to God." The rest of the President's legal team, including best buddy Lindsey, has had to walk a difficult line, trying to act as advisers and lawyers at the same time, and knowing all the while that hearing too much could get them a potentially disastrous date with the grand jury. "Who knows? This may not matter," McAllister says. "The President may not have told Lindsey...
WASHINGTON: At this point, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, the White House has resigned itself to letting the Secret Service talk. "Starr has said he will not ask about overheard conversations between Lindsey and the President," he says. "He just wants them to corroborate certain points of the Tripp tapes, and the White House is done trying to stop the testimony." But on Tuesday in the well-trafficked courthouse, there was another battle being waged: the one over Leakgate...
...other agents to appear in court at high noon, the President's body man isn't likely to sing the tune Starr wants to hear just yet. The reason? The Secret Service agent is now expected to claim that any conversations he overheard between the President and Bruce Lindsey are protected by attorney-client privilege. And that means the Justice Department is passing the baton back to the White House. "It will become strictly an attorney/client privilege fight now," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. That's why Starr wanted Cockell, a plainclothesman, in the first place: Cockell is presumed...
...their sworn enemies, the trial lawyers. Both groups want to give patients the ability to sue their health plans for improper treatment. And the neat ideological divide between pro-business Republicans and populist Democrats is breaking down as well: some of the most conservative Republicans, including South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Steve Largent of Oklahoma, are on record favoring some of the most liberal legislation. These Republicans don't like corporate bureaucracies any more than they like government ones...