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...party-line vote that could lead to a constitutional confrontation, the Senate Whitewater committee issued a subpoena for the notes of former White House aide William Kennedy concerning a Nov. 5, 1993, meeting in which Kennedy and others discussed the scandal. Because the President's personal lawyer was among the participants, Clinton has asserted his lawyer-client privilege in withholding the notes, as well as in ordering aides not to testify...
...Committee with notes taken by former Associate White House counsel William Kennedy during a controversial 1993 Whitewater meeting. Just as quickly, the committee turned him down. The offer, faxed to the senators minutes before they voted 10-8 along Party lines to ask the full Senate to enforce a subpoena of Kennedy's notes within 24 hours, also would have allowed them to question four presidential aides who attended the meeting. But having for weeks cited attorney-client privilege, the President attached important conditions to the deal: Clinton's private attorneys could not have been questioned, the committee...
...refusing the subpoena, Clinton's lawyers also expressed their view that the meeting notes were protected by "executive privilege," a legal argument first advanced, unsuccessfully, by President Nixon during the congressional Watergate investigation. Executive privilege argues that releasing the information would interfere with the ability of a president to do his job. TIME's Adam Cohen says the courts have made few decisions about the legality of this doctrine: "The irony here is that President Clinton is invoking this privilege, since it's the Democrats and Liberals who have traditionally been skeptical of executive privilege. And there is something troubling...
Moore, a Democrat who took office in 1988 and is seeking testimony about tobacco's addictive properties and impact on health, believes the subpoena will protect Wigand from legal action by B&W for breaking his nondisclosure contract. But even more explosive than Wigand's deposition could be the documents that the subpoena requests him to produce. Those papers supposedly include evidence that B&W altered its research into the carcinogenic, toxic or addictive effects of tobacco, as well as a diary Wigand kept while working there. Wigand, says Moore, has "wanted to tell the truth...
...Minutes isn't the only place where Wigand is going--or would have gone--public. Last week he was served a subpoena in Mississippi. State attorney general Mike Moore wants him to testify in the preliminary phase of a Medicaid reimbursement suit against the tobacco industry. The case attempts to make the tobacco industry compensate state taxpayers for funds spent on the tobacco-related illness and death of indigent citizens...