-Caveat Lector- <http://www.nydn.com/2001-02-23/News_and_Views/Beyond_the_City/a-100862.asp> Bill's Dirty Work: Follow the Consigliere There's that name again. Every time a pardon controversy erupts, somewhere in the story is a man named Bruce Lindsey. Think of the Clinton operation as the Corleone family. Bruce Lindsey is Tom Hagen, the godfather's consigliere, the keeper of the secrets, the brilliant lawyer Marlon Brando and Al Pacino depended on to, er, dispose of the most sensitive matters. In real life, Lindsey was the conduit when Jack Quinn, the former White House counsel, wanted Bill Clinton to pardon Marc Rich. Now we've learned that Hillary Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham represented two other undeserving felons whose pardon and commutation petitions were granted by Clinton. And it turns out that Lindsey was in the thick of things again. Who is he? Bruce Lindsey is an Arkansas lawyer who was Hillary's Little Rock law partner, the single most valued friend transplanted to Washington when the Clintons captured the White House. Many thought Lindsey would be named White House counsel. But Bill and Hil were too smart for that. They wanted Bruce to function below the radar and avoid the press. So Lindsey was made a deputy counsel. "That fooled no one," says a former Clinton lawyer. "Bruce was the go-to guy, the person you went to ‹ and the person the President and First Lady went to ‹ when the tough stuff needed doing with a minimum of fingerprints." Once a long time ago ‹ before Clinton became President ‹ I was speaking with him and Webster Hubbell, another now-infamous Clinton crony. Lindsey came into the room and Hubbell and I left. I knew why I was banished, but I wondered why Webb was. "There are things just the two of them talk about it," Hubbell explained with a shrug. Thanks to the Los Angeles Times, we now know a lot about Lindsey's contacts with Hugh Rodham. "Basically what happened is that Hugh did contact us and did indicate an interest" [in the pardons], Lindsey told the Times in an interview published yesterday. "We were aware he was interested in it. But nobody in the White House counsel's office knew whether it was for a client or the basis for it." Stop a second and note the "us" and "we." You could fairly conclude that Lindsey was referring to the White House counsel's office ‹ but as another former Clinton aide says, "You can also read that as implying that the Clintons were in the loop all along. We all knew that when Bruce said something we should pay attention because he was speaking for the President ‹ which made sense because Bruce was always speaking to the President. Everyone inside the White House had that view." And plenty of savvy folks outside, too. Elsewhere in the Times story, Lindsey elaborates on his contacts with Rodham. "I didn't have any impression one way or the other" about Rodham's motives. "... We [got] calls all the time. If you had a friend or knew someone who had a pardon application, you would call me up." Sounds like an advertisement to me. We may never know the full extent of Bill and Hillary's involvement in the pardon work for which Hugh Rodham was paid about $400,000 ‹ except that Hillary tried yesterday to shift all the blame to her husband. But we do know that as with the Rich pardon, everything about Rodham's efforts stinks. The details are different, but the basics of the latest tale follow a familiar plot line: 1. A bad guy wants to become a good guy so he casts about for a lawyer with connections. 2. The Justice Department's time-tested pardon process is bypassed because the President doesn't want a pesky bureaucrat lecturing him about the merits. 3. Value's received for work done ‹ and the Clintons swear up and down that everything was on the up-and-up. Parsing their statements would task a Talmudic scholar's abilities, but as usual the old dodges surface, more questions are raised than answered and we're left with the old Watergate inquiry: What did they know and when did they know it? Bill Clinton twice dishonored his presidency and forever tarnished his reputation: once when he lied about Monica and then, in his final days, when he issued a series of indefensible pardons ‹ as Jimmy Carter said on Wednesday. Those who've been President have a code. They rarely criticize other Presidents ‹ and then usually only when they disagree about a matter of policy. 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