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...with Kennedy's interpretations, but despite repeated prodding was unable to elicit any discrepancies. The former White House attorney's notes became highly controversial last month when the Clintons initially refused to turn them over to Senate Whitewater Committee, then did so after the committee voted to enforce its subpoena in court...
...former White House attorney William Kennedy III to surrender notes taken during a 1993 meeting between White House lawyers and personal lawyers for the President. The Administration, insisting the notes are protected by attorney-client privilege, said Kennedy could not comply with the subpoena (which, in any case, was never properly served, as Kennedy's lawyer, Paul Castellitto, informed committee counsel Michael Chertoff in a phone conversation that became a shouting match). The ultimate confrontation, a full Senate vote on whether to take the matter to court, could still be avoided: later on the day of the deadline, the White...
...pending Whitewater investigations to try to hinder the probes. As the deadline neared, the White House offered a compromise, agreeing to relinquish the notes under certain conditions. But a bitterly divided Senate committee voted 10 to 8 along party lines to reject the deal and seek enforcement of the subpoena. Soon afterward, the White House signaled that only one of the disputed conditions really mattered: other investigative bodies, as well as independent counsel Kenneth Starr, must agree that even if the notes were turned over, the White House could still assert attorney-client privilege with respect to other conversations between...
...Senate Whitewater committee and the White House over access to the notes of a 1993 Whitewater meeting attended by White House lawyers and Bill Clinton's personal lawyers. Rejecting a last-minute White House compromise, the committee voted along partisan lines to ask the full Senate to enforce a subpoena for the notes. Unless one side or the other blinks (Clinton is asserting attorney-client privilege), the issue could soon be headed for the courts...
...that nothing in Kennedy's comments was confidential at the time. According to Kennedy's papers, there was discussion at a White House meeting in 1993 that included Clinton, several aides and Clinton's personal attorneys, about the coincidence that Vincent Foster killed himself on the same day that subpoenas were issued to raid the office of David Hale, a former judge who accused the President of wrongdoing. "July 20th: FBI issues subpoena and took records of municipal judge named Hale," read the notes. "Also day VF killed himself. Factor." At another point Kennedy writes: "Vacuum Rose Law Files . . . Documents...