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...Davidian was killed by helicopter fire. Both assertions have been flatly denied by the FBI. But Doyle also contradicted himself. Days after the raid he said the compound fire was started inside with Coleman fuel; today he couldn't remember. Defending the Administration today, former deputy attorney general Webster Hubbell, who recently testified at Senate Whitewater hearings, was grilled by House Republicans, but held fast to Attorney General Reno's claim that President Clinton at no time pressured the Justice Department to end the 51-day siege with tear gas. Reno will testify Tuesday...
...long-awaited second round of the Senate Whitewater hearings began this morning with emotional testimony from former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, who told the Senate Banking Committee that the day his friend Vincent Foster committed suicide in 1993 was "the worst day of my life." He also said that he and Justice Department colleagues were concerned when White House aides refused to allow investigators immediate access to documents in Foster's office. Senate Republicans maintain the White House obstructed police attempts to investigate Foster's death. Senator Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said today that newly-released documents from Foster...
Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell, one of President Clinton's closest friends and the highest-ranking official to have been toppled by the Whitewater investigation, was sentenced to 21 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty last December to mail-fraud and tax-evasion charges for having bilked his former law firm and clients by submitting inflated expenses and fees...
Former Deputy Attorney General Webster Hubbell, a confidant of President Clinton and the highest-ranking casualty of the Whitewater investigation so far, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for bilking clientsat the law firm where he and Hillary Rodham Clintonwere partners.TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that Hubbell had asked for a reduced sentence of 16 months, in part because of past charitable contributions and his cooperation with Whitewater prosecutors. (Many of the donations, by the way, reportedly came from stolen money.) The judge drew his response today from the Gospel of Luke: "For unto whomsoever much is given...
...Webster and a fellow committee member, William Coleman Jr., a former Secretary of Transportation, resisted the idea of closing the two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue when the study was begun after the apparently deliberate crash of a light plane at the mansion last September. "The only way terrorists succeed is to get the government to do something that makes the government look unstable," declared Webster. "The more you change things, the more they can be encouraged." During the discussions, when it was pointed out that Chelsea Clinton's bedroom was on the vulnerable Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White...