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Kagan Counsel

By The Prowler on 5.13.10 @ 6:06AM

The missing years under Bill Clinton.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary staff are not only interested in reviewing the papers of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan from her time in the Clinton White House as a deputy assistant to the President for domestic policy, they are also interested in getting documents from the time she spent in the White House as associate White House counsel before moving over to policy. While some reports have included her time as a counsel (1995-1996), a number of mainstream reporters have downplayed that period or ignored it altogether, focusing instead on her next job with the domestic policy staff.

According to White House sources, the Obama Administration and Democrats on Capitol Hill have hoped to downplay that period in an effort to limit review process to Kagan's time working on domestic policy issues.

"I don't think anyone knows how much or how little paper there is from that time where attorney-client privilege would be a sticking point," says one White House aide. "We used [Chief Justice John] Roberts' nomination as a model, so we assume the Clinton library will have to provide some of what will be asked for."

But already some reporters are jumping on that period of time.

Kagan moved from the counsel's office to the domestic policy office in 1997, and documents from that period were pushed into reporters' hands almost immediately after Kagan was announced as the SCOTUS nominee. It is believed that Kagan worked at least tangentially on some of the so-called "Clinton scandals" during her brief tenure in the counsel's office, including the Travelgate scandal and ensuing investigation.

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Yosemeti Sam| 5.13.10 @ 12:16PM

Aha - a Clintonista!

Maybe a Zapatista as well?

AmenBro| 5.13.10 @ 4:53PM

Shiver me Timbers & huey Me olive

Avaast thare she blows.

ANOTHER by some standards, shall we say, off the beaten path MORALIST offerin from the left come to RIGH ALL OF WRONGS,,, shhhoooofly where has she BEEN all our life

IVY LEAGUE great White whale apologist for all stains, 1st lady Chief of Staff Vince Foster personal SAFE SPELUNKIN, DON'T ASK DOn't Tell,,,HAR HAR we can solve gays in the military 1st 90 days of the 1st Quarter of the first year of the first term.

SCCCHAZZZAM & GOOALLEE SGT. CARTER. I bet there's some BIG OLE WHOPPERS IN THAT THARE RATTLESNAKE DEN,

Just a cursory review of the L2 Brain cash of my 53y/o noggins recalls RICH Rednecks upending folks in their career TRAVEL OFFICE positions. YUP that must be what MOBY has in mind when she limits FREE SPEECH

IS THERE ANY BOTTOM To the SEWER HOLE theses ALL ORIFICE ingratiated SILVER-SPOON LIMO LIBS crawl from.

You know 40 years ago I used to listen to my grandfather go on about the same type shipdip only they kept the public figures suckables of choice a secret. Shall we call her SLAB, hasn't really tried to do that ,,,till now.

It just keeps getting better. Instead of a band playing on the fantail of the TITANIC YOU GD LIBERALs are providing round the clock stand up comics.

GEORGE CARLIN you passed too son sir.

ZerObama| 5.13.10 @ 7:09PM

Oh, great; another domestic terrorist sympathizer in Obama's inner circle. Liberals suck.

Democrats: The party of slavery, segregation, sodomy and sedition.

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