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Article: Ex-White House Counsels Puzzled by Pass-Holder List; Aides to Bush, Reagan Say Background Request to FBI Wouldn't Have Cleared Their Offices
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 12, 1996
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Two former White House counsels said yesterday that they were
baffled by the extensive list of ex-White House pass-holders that
President Clinton's aides sent to the FBI in 1993 and 1994 and said
it would never have cleared their offices.
C. Boyden Gray, who was counsel to President George Bush, said
he was also puzzled by the fact that the FBI apparently complied
with the Clinton White House requests for information and sent back
sensitive background reports on the former pass-holders, many of
them prominent Republicans.
Among them were former secretary of state James A. Baker III,
President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff Kenneth
Duberstein and Reagan press secretary ...