REPORT LINKS 1ST LADY TO HIRING OF WHITE HOUSE SECURITY HEAD.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Less than two months after President Clinton took office, the White House counsel told an FBI agent that the first lady had recommended Craig Livingstone as head of the White House security office, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. documents disclosed Thursday. Under Livingstone, the security office improperly im·prop·er adj. 1. Not suited to circumstances or needs; unsuitable: improper shoes for a hike; improper medical treatment. 2. obtained as many as 900 confidential FBI files, including those of dozens of prominent Republicans. The documents were disclosed Thursday by Rep. William F. Clinger Jr., R-Pa., who is investigating the improper
But Clinger and other Republicans have insisted that there are many troubling aspects to the affair, including the question of who hired Livingstone. The White House has said he was hired by Vincent Foster, the deputy White House counsel who killed himself in June 1993. The documents disclosed Thursday are a typewritten type·write intr. & tr.v. type·wrote , type·writ·ten , type·writ·ing, type·writes To engage in writing or to write (matter) with a typewriter. summary of an interview in early March 1993 by FBI Agent Dennis Sculimbrene of Bernard Nussbaum, who was then the White House counsel. Sculimbrene was doing a background investigation on whether Livingstone was suitable for the job of running the security office. |
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