Lanny Davis
Lanny Davis
Lanny Jesse Davisis an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues...
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It's deja vu all over again. We made the same arguments in the Clinton administration and ultimately we surrendered. And Sandy Berger testified on the China matter and campaign finance. Sooner or later, transparency wins out over that principle. You might as well do it earlier rather than later.
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It's a self-created nightmare. Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance.
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Voluntarily appearing in front of a congressional committee in public does not violate separation of powers.
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We gave them what we thought they wanted.
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Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.
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He was the go-to person in the Clinton White House.
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He cannot erase the fact that he put his privacy rights ahead of the need to find that young woman.
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He cannot erase that, whether he's innocent or not -- and I assume he is, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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He focuses on the half-empty glass. But it is equally true to say the glass is half-full.
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There is nobody on either side of the aisle that thinks there was anything even possible that Sandy could have done deliberately here,
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I recommend that Cheney do a press conference and answer every question,
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In this presumption-of-guilt culture, which is what has come about in Washington in the last 10 or 15 years, there must be a sense of anger there and an inability to manage the facts.
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If he had asked for the ship's speed, we would have given it to him in 10 seconds. The information he provided to The Courant is either a result of his attorneys not sharing information they had with him, or he flat-out said something he knew not to be true. Maybe in the future he should be in better communications with the lawyers.
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I know people who describe him as a very decent man. So he starts out with a reservoir of open-mindedness among even arch-liberal Democrats like myself.