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...Questions Clinton confidant Bruce Lindsey visits Ken Starr's grand jury, and takes 10 White House lawyers along. Chances are someone will whisper the magic words: Executive privilege...
...origins of the talking points remain a big mystery, but Starr may have good reason to press Lindsey under oath. Tripp and Lindsey once worked together; she was his executive assistant for three months in 1993. And the two had evidently discussed the sensitive Willey matter before: A source close to Tripp told TIME last week that Tripp had tried to reach Lindsey in the summer of 1997 to let him know that reporters were snooping around the Willey incident. Lindsey at first did not return Tripp's phone call, partly because he regarded her as untrustworthy. But later...
Officially, Lindsey is the No. 2 lawyer in the White House counsel's office. He first met Clinton in 1968 when they both worked in the office of Arkansas Senator William Fulbright. Lindsey attended law school at Georgetown and eventually returned to Little Rock. When Clinton failed to win re-election as Governor in 1980, he joined Lindsey's firm. They remained close after Clinton returned to office, and in the early days of the 1992 presidential campaign, it was just the two of them trekking the country, seeking support for Clinton's candidacy. Lindsey has remained at Clinton...
...Lindsey can take comfort in the fact that when he was last snared by the Starr machine, he came out intact. In 1996 Starr named him as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the case of two Arkansas bankers, Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hill, who were involved in Clinton's 1990 campaign for Governor. Lindsey was accused of trying to persuade Branscum and Hill not to file the required federal forms when the campaign made large transactions in cash. Lindsey testified that he made no such effort. The jury acquitted Branscum and Hill of some charges and deadlocked...
...Susan McDougal. His last indictments, brought 18 months ago, were against Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert Hill, two officers of the Perry County Bank in Perryville, Ark. Starr charged them with misappropriating $13,000 that he thought might be linked to an attempt by White House adviser Bruce Lindsey, who was then campaign treasurer of Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial race, to conceal some illegal campaign borrowing. In September 1996 both men were acquitted, though the jury deadlocked on other charges...