Word: ratan
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...media firms like Disney to merge into near-monopolies. "They're taking it up in the middle of the night, when there's no one to listen to the debate, no one around to view, no one to report on it," one Democratic Senate staffer told TIME's Suneel Ratan. A similar measure has already cleared the Senate. Clinton promises a veto...
...indications that Hillary Clinton was more directly involved in the handling of Vincent Foster's files than previously acknowledged were expected to raise temperatures atSenate Whitewater hearingsas Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff, Maggie Williams, testified today. TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan says that while the new information about exchanges between Williams and Mrs. Clinton two days after Foster committed suicide "doesn't show the first lady ordered the separation and removal of documents, it puts her closer to the action and conceivably suggests a closer involvement." Earlier today, Senators questioned Secret Service agent Henry O'Neill, who had vivid...
...certainly had reason to worry about the Department of Justice search of Vincent Foster's office." Banking Committee member Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) countered that any mistakes by administration officials in the aftermath of Foster's death were due to the "emotional shock they had experienced." TIME's Suneel Ratan notes that in his testimony today, Hubbell made "a calculated effort to support the White House line. What they're trying to show is that, at worst, they were bumbling, but that it does not amount to a conspiracy to obstruct...
TIME's Suneel Ratan reports that Senate Republicans will begin a new round of Whitewater hearings Tuesday by hammering at apparent inconsistencies in accounts of the removal of files by White House personnel from the office of top Clinton aide Vincent Foster immediately after his death in 1993. That night, then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams and aide Patsy Thomasson were in Foster's office, reportedly searching for a suicide note. They say they removed nothing. But Secret Service guard Henry O'Neill has told Senate investigators that...
...spite of the best GOP efforts, Ratan adds, the hearings may provide a sense of closure that has eluded the affair so far. Still, in an event that coincides with politically-charged hearings on the federal siege at Waco, "the Republicans will be doing their best to paint a picture of an Administration that is at minimum politically inept...