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Article: Justice Department to Fight Starr On Forcing Secret Service to Talk
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 15, 1998
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The Justice Department has decided to fight efforts by
independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to compel testimony from Secret
Service officers who protect President Clinton, setting the stage
for another long court battle in the Monica S. Lewinsky
investigation.
Breaking off weeks of negotiations over whether he could gain
access to Secret Service personnel, Starr filed a sealed motion
Friday seeking a court order to require their grand jury testimony.
Now, top Justice Department officials -- at the behest of the
Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service -- are
drawing up papers countering Starr's motion on the grounds that a
unique legal privilege should shield the ...