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...President could, or should, be compelled to testify in court. Five recent U.S. Presidents have given testimony in criminal cases. While Presidents Nixon and Reagan testified in courtrooms afterleaving office, Presidents Ford, Carter and Clinton gave videotaped testimony while serving. President Clinton did so in 1996, answering a Whitewater subpoena. In the present case, the Court gave Clinton at least one escape route: the justices gave the federal judge the authority to delay a trial in the Paula Jones matter if it interferes with the President?s official duties. Text of Paula Jones' Complaint
...that the long-awaited DNA results (some from DNA found under the nails) may not make the case. Things could then drift for months or longer. "I'll be surprised if the Ramseys are ever charged," says Bob Miller, a former U.S. attorney in Denver. A grand jury with subpoena powers might have speeded up the case, but now it may be too late. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News reported excerpts from the ransom note, which began, "Listen carefully, the two gentlemen who have your daughter don't like you," going on to claim authorship by a "small foreign faction...
...eight-page subpoena opened with the word Greeting, but there was nothing friendly about it. Coming from the Senate committee investigating the campaign fund-raising scandal, it directed what's left of the Dole campaign to hand over all documents connected to a familiar cast of 46 political donors and suitors. As the subpoena was faxed around Washington last week, it set off a minor panic among lobbyists and fund raisers worried about who might be called to testify. But their fretting was misplaced: the name of the G.O.P.'s most generous foreign benefactor wasn't even on the list...
...board of an aerospace company close to the ruling Nationalist government. He is known as "the man to see" if you want to get a hearing in Asian aerospace circles. Little else about him is publicly available--at least not yet. Last Friday, Haley Barbour received a new subpoena, this one asking for all records relating to the National Policy Forum. With Washington's investigations widening to include Republican backers, the well-guarded anonymity of Ambrous Tung Young may be coming...
PSLM members were asked to serve a subpoena to Cash on Harvard Business School property after workers were turned away on April 11, when they tried to serve the subpoena to Cash. Cash reportedly refused to speak or accept the subpoena from the students...