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Doerflinger, the Catholic spokesman, was so intent on asserting the unique personhood of totipotent cells that he dismissed pluripotent cells, by contrast, as nonorganisms.
Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."
Kazan might have stood by his original policy, asserting that while he hated Communism, he would not assist in a violation of civil liberties.
United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni echoed the British assessment, asserting that “the public needs to have access to what they've paid for,” in a July 28 meeting of stakeholders in scientific and medical publishing.
Unable to distinguish his ego from his credo, he accused Clinton of obstructing justice by asserting executive privilege against Starr's investigation.