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Although Holder chided government lawyers for formulating a "sloppy," "overly aggressive" response to the AAPS lawsuit and took Magaziner to task for using ill-defined legalistic language supplied him by White House counsel Vincent Foster, he concluded his investigation by declining to prosecute Magaziner for criminal contempt.
Netanyahu complained about being snubbed by Clinton on a prior visit to the U.S., and Clinton chided him for meeting with Jerry Falwell the other day, noting that Falwell has distributed videos suggesting that Clinton may have been complicit in a murder.
(At one press conference earlier this year, he joked, "I'm happy to be black--I mean back," and chided journalists about their preference for the Old Testament.)
Harry Reid, D-Nev., chided conservatives who had called it "Clinton and Gore's war."
In a number of telephone calls, all initiated by Blair and some lasting as long as 30 minutes, she urged him to "stiffen the spine" of the Americans, as she had done when she chided President Bush for going "wobbly" during the Gulf War.