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OK, that may be overstatement (Ickes is also the man who calls Kenneth Starr's judicially-supervised subpoenas "Gestapo police state tactics").
For fear of subpoenas and legal bills, the press secretary simply can't talk to the president about Flytrap.
Arlen Specter's remark yesterday on CNN that with the latest flap, the White House "may have crossed the line of obstruction of justice" is quoted by USAT and the WP . The Post points out that such tapes were ostensibly covered by congressional committee subpoenas going back to last January, while the WSJ adds that Senate investigators had previously been told that no such tapes existed.
2) Why were the tapes turned over only after Senate investigators specifically asked for videotapes--and only hours after Attorney General Janet Reno cleared Clinton of alleged campaign-finance violations--despite previous congressional subpoenas demanding all records relevant to Clinton's fund raising?
USAT and the Post note that the latest round of Starr subpoenas, supported by an appeals court decision last week impugning the notion of "protective privilege," targets agents with far more intimate knowledge of presidential behavior and movements than the uniformed Secret Service personnel previously interviewed.