WHITEWATER CASE NOTES TURNED OVER.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. One of President Clinton's top aides, after telling Congress he didn't take notes on a key Whitewater strategy meeting, belatedly be·lat·ed adj. Having been delayed; done or sent too late: a belated birthday card. [be- + lated. produced his long-sought jottings Friday night. The three pages of handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. notes by senior White House adviser 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. were faxed to the Senate Banking Committee after Lindsey's attorney, Allen Snyder, said he found them Wednesday among thousands of documents that Lindsey had turned over to him months ago. Lindsey had told the Senate Whitewater Committee on Jan 16: "I don't remember taking specific notes" at a Nov. 5, 1993, meeting of top White House officials to brief Clinton's private lawyer on the then-growing Whitewater controversy. The notes do not appear to break new ground. But the abrupt discovery of the documents several months after they had been subpoenaed by the committee is sure to fuel Republican accusations that the White House has dodged request after request for all Whitewater papers. It also could bolster This article is about the pillow called a bolster. For other meanings of the word "bolster", see bolster (disambiguation). A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz GOP arguments to extend the Senate's Whitewater investigation. Snyder said the notes were uncovered in his office after a review of efforts to comply with Whitewater subpoenas. The lawyer blamed the delay on an "inadvertent error." Snyder said Lindsey had forgotten that he took notes at the meeting. Jane Sherburne, a White House lawyer handling the Whitewater affair, said Lindsey had turned the records over to his lawyer - not the White House. "We had no opportunity to review them and didn't know they existed," she said. This is the latest in a string of belated be·lat·ed adj. Having been delayed; done or sent too late: a belated birthday card. [be- + lated. document discoveries by the White House. |
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