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...important" testimony that is potentially damaging to Mrs. Clinton from former Clinton business partner and failed S&L head James McDougal. According to lawyers, Starr and his key investigators have been meeting this week in Washington and Little Rock to assess evidence gathered over the three-year probe. Their blueprint: a 300-page memo that analyzes the mountain of information gathered over the course of the investigation, most of which details material involving the First Lady, according to lawyers who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Of particular interest to prosecutors is what role...
Representative David McIntosh, the Indiana Republican who heads a congressional probe into WhoDB, said the use of a taxpayer-funded database--whose cost was estimated by the Administration to run as high as $1.7 million--raises ethical questions about the extent to which the White House was used as a base for campaign operations. "This is something you'd expect to find at the D.N.C., not the White House," said McIntosh. Even the White House had trouble defining the line between the social and political use of WhoDB. Associate counsel Cheryl Mills set out ground rules in a January...
...with Labor nominee Alexis Herman, has been put under the GOP spotlight. "My read on this is that the Republicans will shake them up, but they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while serving in his current job as National Security Advisor. The White House counsel's office advised Lake two years ago to sell his holdings in four energy-related concerns, which were deemed a potential ethical conflict because...
...with Labor nominee Alexis Herman, has been put under the GOP spotlight. "My read on this is that the Republicans will shake them up, but they probably will pass them," says TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "Majority Leader Trent Lott says he just wants to be thorough." The probe into Lake's investments focuses on several energy stocks he owned while serving in his current job as National Security Advisor. The White House counsel's office advised Lake two years ago to sell his holdings in four energy-related concerns, which were deemed a potential ethical conflict because...
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Missouri: The Army announced it has suspended 12 drill instructors over the last six weeks at Fort Leonard Wood as part of its continuing probe into sexual harassment and sexual abuse charges. That brings to 28 the total number of suspensions at one of the army's largest basic training facilities, where hundreds of instructors are stationed. TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson notes that the report is a sign that the Army is now enforcing sexual harassment regs to the letter. "I think, compared to a year ago, the whole military is a little more on tenterhooks...