Not content -- and those are the allegations of abuse of office -- not content with charging lying under oath, witness tampering and obstruction of justice about the president's attempt to hide his private relationship, the independent counsel has asked the committee to recast these same allegations as an abuse of office, just as majority counsel wants to rename his charges.
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Before his recently announced return to the private sector, Craig was White House counsel in the Obama administration, and also the President's designated point-man on smoothing the way for fulfilling an ill-conceived presidential campaign promise: the closure of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010.
As her obsession grew, Ms. Wong left her job as a general counsel of Merrill's international private client group and set up her own business consulting operation.
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More recently there's news of private equity firms hiring lawyers as in-house counsel to advise the firms on their own legal troubles.
"No one begrudges parents who can afford to send their children to private school, " says Michael Best, general counsel for the New York City schools.
The White House offered instead to allow presidential adviser Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers and others to be interviewed in private by congressional committees.
One of those private e-mails at issue involved an exchange between Martin and Vickie Patton, the General Counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund, regarding an arranged meeting with him.
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Most of the legal bills are from the private law firms of David Kendall, who represents the president and the first lady in Independent Counsel Ken Starr's various investigations, and Robert Bennett, who represents the president in the Paula Jones case.
Luskin said it was "foolish speculation" for CREW -- which serves as counsel to former ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, in a private suit against Rove and other Bush officials -- to suggest that the gap in White House e-mail helped Rove avoid indictment in the CIA leak case.
From 2003 to 2005, she was an Assistant Special Counsel at the Sentencing Commission and, prior to that, spent four years working in private practice in both Boston and the District of Columbia.
Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment.
The Counsel General has a defined set of responsibilities to perform and is not precluded from undertaking private work provided it is not in a legal area which might cause conflict with Welsh Government devolved responsibilities.
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