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Article: White House Ordered to Surrender Lawyers' Notes; Appeal Planned of Ruling That Whitewater Discussions With First Lady Are Not Privileged
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- The Washington Post
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- May 3, 1997
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In a strongly worded opinion unsealed yesterday, a federal
appeals court ordered the White House to surrender notes its lawyers
took in conversations with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,
calling the administration's use of government attorneys as a
"shield" in a criminal investigation "a gross misuse of public
assets."
A divided three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals issued the ruling last month, and it was made public at the
request of the White House. The court said the White House has no
legal grounds to withhold from Whitewater independent counsel
Kenneth W. Starr two sets of notes taken by administration lawyers
in meetings in 1995 and 1996 with the first ...