Word: secrets
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...weeks Justice Department officials and Starr's lawyers have negotiated over whether officers and agents would testify. But the atmosphere for those talks may have been poisoned after Secret Service director Merletti learned that Starr was investigating rumors that the previous chief, Eljay Bowron, might have been forced out last year to make room for someone friendlier to Clinton, namely the 49-year-old Merletti. A 23-year veteran of the service, Merletti was troubled: Starr was chasing a conspiracy theory and had sent FBI agents to Bowron's house to try to prove it. Bowron, who had recommended Merletti...
...argue. Agents could be compelled to testify about whether they had witnessed a President committing a crime, such as taking a bribe. But a prosecutor wanting to know about, say, noncriminal caperings with an intern could be refused. "Proximity is the heart and soul of what we do," says Secret Service director Lewis Merletti, who pressed for the privilege. "It can't be compromised...
...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
Albright and her senior State Department colleagues sat down for a full-dress CIA briefing on the Caspian last August. The agency had set up a secret task force to monitor the region's politics and gauge its wealth. Covert CIA officers, some well-trained petroleum engineers, had traveled through southern Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to sniff out potential oil reserves. When the policymakers heard the agency's report, Albright concluded that working to mold the area's future was "one of the most exciting things that...
...considers herself the victim of a collision of law and love. But if Mary Letourneau is a complex character in a complicated situation, is she any less guilty? Her new lawyer--a hotshot New Englander with an accent and a Ph.D.--is concocting an appeal in secret. More disclosures are sure to come, and several books are in the works. But could a mountain of paper make what she did O.K.? Is there any way to defend Mary? The key may lie in the meanderings of her heart...