Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kendall was toying with the idea of quashing the subpoena, White House aides could have been on the Hill shopping the idea around. But when Democrats first heard about the subpoena from press reports over the weekend, all the people who counted went public in favor of the safest option: testifying. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch declared that defying a subpoena would be grounds for impeachment, and various congressional Democrats were adamant that Clinton had to talk. By Monday, with only a day left, with everyone on the record calling for Clinton to testify and no room left...
...White House insiders go, the whole Jimmy Swaggart confession scenario was something of a national parlor game, not a live option. "The best thing to expect right now is our standard operating procedure," said an adviser. "He goes in, testifies and issues a brief one-sentence statement. That's the way we've done it in the past, and unfortunately, we've got a lot of experience in this." But there may be nothing standard about this operation anymore; Clinton's lawyers will have to be at least as hard on him as Starr will be, make him address every...
Chirac said the time had come to discuss this option seriously. The others agreed but thought it would be extremely difficult to pull off. Clinton wanted the French to spearhead the raid, but Chirac was not keen on taking on that "high-risk" role alone for fear of possible reprisals against his troops in the sector. Clinton and Blair were reluctant because of the potential casualties. Chirac pointed out another problem: they could not launch such an operation without informing the Russians, for diplomatic reasons, or the Italians, whose peacekeeping troops were present in the French-controlled zone immediately around...
Kendall's preferred option will always be silence. It was Kendall who moved most forcefully in the 48 hours after the scandal broke to shut down Clinton's own plan to explain himself and go public with, as the President put it, more rather than less; sooner rather than later. Even as the White House spin operation was weighing options on how and when Clinton would tell his story--whether it was to be in an interview or a news conference, on television or in print--"the lawyers went through chapter and verse with [Clinton] and decided...
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...