Word: subpoenaed
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...Service agents; Clinton's loyal second, Bruce Lindsey; Lewinsky; and the President himself. For four years, Starr had tested the power of the presidency, and his record was mixed. Now he was convinced that it was time for the gravest, and most constitutionally risky, test of all: serving a subpoena on a sitting President...
...stain is indeed what Starr hopes it is, he will then have to match the President to the DNA. Of course he would hope that Clinton volunteers the necessary blood or saliva, but more likely he'd have to serve a subpoena of sorts at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where the leader of the free world gets his physicals. Past behavior hardly suggests that the presidential genetic blueprint will be offered up without a fight. Get ready for the next big legal battle: Bodily-fluid privilege...
WASHINGTON: The White House has finally run out of privileges, and all the President's lawyers (except personal counsel David Kendall) are open to subpoena by Ken Starr's grand jury. The White House is already simpering that it hopes the full court will take the matter up in the fall. But now that the President is testifying two weeks hence, why should the White House or Ken Starr -- or us, for that matter -- care what Clinton's confidants have to report anymore...
...harder than ever to testify. Starr has invited the President's cooperation at least half a dozen times in recent months, and now the courtship between the two men has taken a more coercive turn: last week he took the unprecedented step of serving a sitting President with a subpoena in a criminal matter in which the President himself is in jeopardy. The White House said virtually nothing about the showdown except to acknowledge for the first time that Kendall had stepped up the delicate process of ensuring "the grand jury gets the information it needs." In other words, Clinton...
...does his pro bono work for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, while Starr moonlighted as counsel for a conservative Wisconsin foundation's fight for school choice. Their interplay became all the more intriguing last week when the heretofore academic question of whether the President can be subpoenaed became a very, very real one. Although the move put both sides into uncharted legal territory, it seems fairly certain that a sitting President--unlike Whitewater defendant Susan McDougal or any other ordinary citizen--cannot be sent to jail for contempt. One response Clinton can make to the subpoena...