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After weeks of partisan bickering, the Senate reached consensus by voting unanimously to hold hearings on the Whitewater affair -- at some unspecified point in the future. In the meantime, the Whitewater grand jury reached ever higher into the White House, issuing a subpoena to George Stephanopoulos, one of the President's closest advisers, on the same day the jury heard testimony from departing White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes...
...Mark Gearan and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. They were ordered to Federal District Court in Washington to provide testimony for a grand jury in Little Rock. At issue is a series of meetings between White House aides and Treasury Department officials connected to the Whitewater investigation. Another subpoena ordered the White House to preserve any evidence relating to the meetings. Deputy counsel Joel Klein immediately barred the destruction of computer records or the removal of any burn bags and trash containers...
...would a lawyer ask the Justice Department to subpoena some of the papers of his own clients -- especially if those clients are the President of the U.S. and his wife? White House senior adviser Bruce Lindsey has a simple . answer: "Privacy." Indeed, subpoenaed papers become part of the record of a criminal investigation, unavailable for release under the Freedom of Information Act and thus shielded more effectively than otherwise from Congress and the press...
Accordingly, on the day last week that the Justice Department received a request under the Freedom of Information Act to make public files on Whitewater Development Corp. -- an Arkansas land venture in which Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners -- the White House announced that those files were under subpoena. David Kendall, the Clintons' personal lawyer, had asked for that subpoena almost two weeks earlier, on Dec. 23 -- the day Clinton announced he would turn over all the files to Justice "voluntarily." As it happened, Justice lawyers were already drafting a subpoena; Kendall persuaded them to broaden it and demand...
...White House revealed that the Justice Department had subpoenaed files belonging to the President and Hillary Clinton that pertain to their investment in the Whitewater Development Corp. in Arkansas. The Clintons had already agreed to hand over the papers; the effect of the subpoena -- which the Administration said it requested -- will be to make it a federal crime for anyone to divulge any information contained in the files. Five boxes of papers have been given to the Justice Department, with more to come in the next two or three weeks. The delay, said the White House, was because...