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Tuesday February 27 03:00 PM EST
Clinton Frees Aides to Talk on Pardon
By ABCNEWS.com
Former President Clinton is freeing up his aides to tell Congress
what they know about his pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, forgoing
the battles over executive privilege that marked the Monica
Lewinsky investigation.
Former President Clinton is giving his ex-aides the green light
to cooperate with congressional investigators looking into the
controversial pardons issued on his last day in office, ABCNEWS
has learned. Clinton has agreed to waive executive privilege
claims that could block his former aides from telling the House
Government Reform Committee what they know about the pardon of
billionaire fugitive Marc Rich.
Committee Chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., wants to talk to several
former Clinton aides - including Chief of Staff John Podesta and
White House counsels Beth Nolan and Bruce Lindsey, who will be
called to testify at hearings Thursday - in his efforts to
determine whether friends and family members bought a pardon for
Rich and his assistant Pincus Green.
All three refused to testify in Burton's first hearings into the
pardon earlier this month.
During the investigation into his affair with intern Monica
Lewinsky, Clinton invoked executive privilege to keep his
official communications with top aides confidential. Clinton
fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep then-Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr from forcing Lindsey and other top aides to
answer questions about their private conversations with the
president. But high court justices let stand a lower court
ruling that forced Lindsey to talk, ruling that executive
privilege does not extend to criminal probes.
ABCNEWS' Jackie Judd, Chris Vlasto and Brian Hartman contributed
to this report.
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