Word: spokesman
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Thompson, who has an eye on the White House himself, is discouraged but not defeated. "We've been stonewalled," griped committee spokesman Paul Clark, but he added, "There's still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...
...week he suffered his most serious rebuke, when a federal judge granted a new trial to convicted Tyson lobbyist Jack Williams. Reason: Smaltz's prosecutors had failed to tell Williams' lawyers that one of their main FBI witnesses had admitted lying under oath in an unrelated matter. (A Smaltz spokesman said the lack of disclosure was unintentional.) Last month the judge in another case related to the Espy probe refused to give a convicted defendant the prison time requested by prosecutors, sentencing him instead to a year in a halfway house and implying that Smaltz had been overzealous. In March...
...involving Clinton. Some FBI agents and several attorneys have left the investigation because of what they considered its excesses. Two former Smaltz staff members have told TIME the counsel took liberties with government resources by regularly asking employees to watch his home while it was being cleaned. Smaltz's spokesman says such charges are "without merit...
...contents of your hard drive. So far, this is business as usual -- Microsoft experienced a security problem with its Internet Explorer browser three months ago. The rub came earlier this week, when Cabocomm, the Danish company that discovered the bug, told Netscape it wanted to be paid what a spokesman called "a large, unspecified amount of money" to give the company the solution...
...exponential growth that the Coalition owed to the telegenic, flesh-pressing Reed look to be over. Judging from the press conference, says Barrett, don't look for Tate or Hodel to be gracing any magazine covers. "Neither of these two can hold a candle to Reed as a public spokesman," says Barrett. "They're not poster boys...