CLINTON AIDE'S DEPOSITION CONTRADICTS MCCURRY IN LIPPO CASE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Bruce Lindsey Bruce R. Lindsey currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the William J. Clinton Foundation and splits his time between the Foundation's New York and Little Rock offices. He has been a long-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton. , President Clinton's closest adviser, knew in 1994 that an Indonesian company had hired Clinton's disgraced friend Webster Hubbell Webster Lee Hubbell (born 1949), known as Webster L. Hubbell and Webb Hubbell, was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a lawyer in Pulaski County before serving as Mayor of Little Rock from 1979 until he resigned in 1981. - long before the company emerged at the center of the Democratic fund-raising controversy. Lindsey's statement, contained in a June 1996 Senate deposition stored away at the National Archives National Archives, official depository for records of the U.S. federal government, established in 1934 by an act of Congress. Although displeasure concerning the method of keeping national records was voiced in Congress as early as 1810, the United States continued , contradicts the account White House press secretary Mike McCurry gave just last month. McCurry told reporters in December that Lindsey and other presidential aides did not learn about the Lippo Group's hiring of Hubbell until press accounts last year. ``They reported being surprised,'' he said at the time. Asked by the Associated Press about the conflicting deposition, the White House on Wednesday altered - for a third time in recent weeks - its public account of events in the controversy over Asian-linked donors to the Democratic Party. White House special counsel Lanny Davis Lanny J. Davis (b. ?1946) is a lawyer and former Special Counsel to the President for Bill Clinton. He served as special counsel from 1996 to 1998, during which time he also was the spokesman for Clinton in issues regarding campaign finance investigations and other legal issues. said Lindsey's testimony was accurate and that McCurry's explanation was wrong. He blamed miscommunication mis·com·mu·ni·ca·tion n. 1. Lack of clear or adequate communication. 2. An unclear or inadequate communication. between Lindsey, a White House lawyer and McCurry. ``There certainly was no attempt to mislead mis·lead tr.v. mis·led , mis·lead·ing, mis·leads 1. To lead in the wrong direction. 2. To lead into error of thought or action, especially by intentionally deceiving. See Synonyms at deceive. the press at any time about these matters,'' Davis said. Davis said Lindsey ``considers this to be an honest misunderstanding.'' He said Lindsey didn't correct McCurry's account earlier because he had not seen it and ``has no recollection of reading anything that would have triggered in his mind'' that there was erroneous information. McCurry said he hadn't been told, until Tuesday, about the deposition. ``I pressed very hard at the time inside here, to the point of being obnoxious, to ensure I was being told everything accurate, but apparently I made a mistaken assumption and I'm sorry for that,'' he said. In the Senate deposition last summer, before the fund-raising controversy erupted, Lindsey acknowledged he knew as early as November 1994 that Lippo had hired Hubbell after his disgrace and fall from a top Justice Department job. |
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