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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Finally, we are going to have the chance to have a court hear the facts that the prosecutors refused to allow the jury to hear, which is why 5 out of 12 jurors asked for this result. Truth and facts are what make our system of justice work.
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Since last August, the new chairman of the board, Roel Pieper, came up against a cesspool of financial issues,
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Many lawyers are, media-wise, brain-dead. Bob gets how to be a lawyer and communicate effectively. Lawyers cannot operate just by no-commenting anymore.
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There's no cause and effect between that particular incident and the policy that had been debated and evolving way before those contributions came in.
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Tell it early, tell it all and tell it yourself. The rules are the same whether you're a president, a corporate CEO or a baseball player.
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The president has stated that he cannot say that out of the hundreds and hundreds of calls he made to supporters that he never asked for financial support. He said that he cannot recall specifically asking for contributions during these calls, though he may well have.
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The problem with energy taxes is that the poor and middle class subsidize the wealthy, and environmentalists tend to forget that.
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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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I recommend that Cheney do a press conference and answer every question,
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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.
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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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The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken coming home to roost.
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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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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.