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Payback, thy name is politics!(investigation of the leaked identity of Central Intelligence Agency agent)(Column)
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U.S. News & World Report
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October 13, 2003
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You can't make this stuff up. Hillary Rodham Clinton, then a first lady under fire, argues against the appointment of an independent counsel in the Whitewater case. It would "set a terrible precedent," she writes in her bestseller Living History. She loses the fight--and goes on to say that the decision to request an independent counsel was a bad idea that "sapped the administration's energy . . . unfairly invaded the lives of innocent people, and diverted America's attention from the challenges we faced at home and abroad."
But that was then. Today, Senator Clinton is blessed by new revelations about the usefulness of special counsels. The controversy over the leaking of ...
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