Who Is Janet Napolitano?
Brock, David
S hortly before last November's elections, Senator David Boren of Oklahoma made discreet inquiries with his Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the stalled...
...Indeed, in a prior telephone interview with Biden staffer Harriet Grant, Hoerchner, without hesitation, had placed the time of the call as "the spring of 1981," six months before Hill went to work for Thomas...
...He is currently weighing the pros and cons of making an issue of Napolitano's role...
...Can I meet with the witness...
...Melanne Verveer, another People for the American Way veteran, is in a top job on Hillary's staff...
...0 ther Anita Hill–ites have been similarly tucked away in and around the government...
...An early signal of the influence of these liberal legal activists came when Ricki Seidman, an aide to Senator Ted Kennedy, via People for the American Way, joined the Clinton campaign as manager of its "war room" in Little Rock...
...Mikulski was supposed to counter the efforts of a group called Democratic Women Against DeConcini, which had been formed after the Thomas-Hill hearings to identify a woman to challenge DeConcini in a primary...
...A. Oh, I see what you are saying...
...Janet clearly fits within that category," he wrote...
...Stepping in it further, Newman essentially called Thomas a liar by stating, on the basis of no evidence, that something untoward had likely happened between Thomas and Hill...
...A. Yes, if my memory is At that point, Napolitano interrupted...
...She learned to manage "war rooms," then, in the Russell Senate Office Building, and later bragged to colleagues that she' had single-handedly defeated Bork...
...The public announcement, before Clinton had even nominated an attorney general, put the administration in an awkward position...
...According to the Phoenix Gazette, she was the keynote speaker at a May 1991 pro-choice rally against the Supreme Court's decision barring the use of federal funds for abortion counseling...
...Q. That's all I have...
...A close reading of the report of Senate special counsel Peter Fleming, who investigated the leak last year, suggests that Seidman helped broker the leak of Hill's committee statement by James Brudney, then a staffer to Metzenbaum, by playing intermediary with National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg...
...No one seriously thought this was true...
...attorney in Washington who was asked by Hill's lawyers to find an examiner to conduct Hill's secret polygraph...
...It ended up including, most prominently, Charles Ogletree of Harvard University, Susan Deller Ross, Washington lawyer Warner Gardner, and Frank and Napolitano, who, according to an article in the American Lawyer, were assigned the handling of procedural matters with the Judiciary Committee...
...Then, when Senator Alan Simpson produced a record of the charge, Hoerchner said, "I cannot say that I didn't...
...Caricaturing Bork as a "judicial activist," Frank also personally and successfully lobbied his friend Senator Dennis DeConcini, the Judiciary Committee Democrat and former prosecutor who often votes with the Republicans, to come out against the nominee—a turning point in the struggle...
...Trolling for feminist votes in Utah, however, seems a waste of time...
...While she had previously said that Hill had told her she was the only witness, Hoerchner now claimed it had been the FBI who told her...
...An eleventh-hour attempt to impeach a man of unimpeachable character" was how Seidman characterized concerns about assistant attorney general Webster Hubbell's membership in an all-white Little Rock country club...
...and that "she told me she was undergoing sexual harassment at work by her boss...
...and Napolitano, representing Hill...
...He has a mediocre educational record followed by some years of useful government service and 17 months of judicial experience undistinguished by any notable opinions...
...A. Right...
...At first, Hoerchner stated that Hill had told her she was the only person Hill had ever told of the harassment: Q. Did she ever relay to you that you were the, only person who knew about these allegations or these problems she was having at work...
...This past April, Napolitano was the featured speaker at an American Association of University Women panel on—what else?—`Breaking the Glass Ceiling...
...syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman opined after the hearings...
...I don't know whether what he said to me was accurate or not...
...Hoerchner and her husband, Fred Gray, a fellow worker's compensation judge in California...
...Moreover, his political advisers do not want Hatch—who is also up for re-election next year—to do anything to raise memories...
...In attendance were four committee lawyers...
...And DeConcini was not pleased...
...Had she not corrected her testimony, Specter said, Hill might have faced a perjury charge...
...I'm sorry...
...It chose to interpret the regulations in the most anti-choice, anti-women, anti-poor-women way possible...
...Tipped off by the Alliance for Justice that an Oklahoma woman might be willing to charge Thomas with sexual harassment, Seidman placed two crucial telephone calls to Hill in early September 1991, designed to pressure her into first acknowledging the harassment rumor and then speaking to the Judiciary Committee about it...
...Certainly Napolitano is as much a political activist as a lawyer...
...Off the record] A. [Terry Wooten, aide to Senator Strom Thurmond]: Let me just say this for the record...
...Judith Lichtman of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, a friend and adviser of Hillary's, has yet to take a formal post...
...that it was "at a time when we spoke fairly regularly by telephone...
...This inquiry might have established how deeply Hoerchner was involved in pressuring Hill to come forward and promoting the charge on Capitol Hill: Q. I mean prior to this time, have you talked to staff people other than Senator Biden's staff people...
...S enator Hank Brown of Colorado, one of the committee's more earnest members, is said to be interested in questioning Napolitano further, and the two GOP newcomers to the committee, William Cohen of Maine and Larry Pressler of South Dakota, are also considered apt to voice concerns...
...A. Right...
...This spring, Sherman was named assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs...
...attorney nominee would be somewhat unusual, but the Senate committee may hold one if it wishes...
...But many on Capitol Hill believed that the inquiries had been made by adept administration strategists, aware of the disastrous political consequences of such a move, solely as a way of pre-empting this very pressure from the party's left-wing activists both inside and outside the government...
...Appellate Judge Jon Newman of Connecticut, the first choice of the activist groups to fill the Byron White vacancy on the Supreme Court, however, did get caught in the cross-hairs...
...During the course of the Friday interview, Hoerchner recalled several things about this one call: that it lad occurred "sometime before September 1981...
...Okay...
...Ronald Allen, Hoerchner's New York lawyer...
...She has been a member of the Democratic National Committee and was the first woman to hold the number-two post in the Arizona Democratic Party...
...When Boren asked about the hold-up, Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, the committee's canny liberal operative, told Boren, "That's Anita Hill's seat...
...He is credited with (or blamed for) leading the activist groups in generating media and grass-roots opposition in Arizona against Bork as though he were a political candidate...
...Napolitano is also a full-fledged feminist...
...Questioned further as to how she placed the date, Hoerchner said she remembered the call as having taken place in Washington, and she had moved to California in September 1981...
...This was the final round of questioning about the date df the call, where Hoerchner herself seemed to realize that, if her chronology was right, Hill had complained of harassment before she went to work for Thomas: Q. And, in an attempt to try to pin down the date a little bit more specifically as to your first phone conversation about the sexual harassment issue in 1981, the year you mentioned, you said the first time you moved out of Washington was September of 1981, is that correct...
...And I believe that the basis for the conclusion was that I was told by the FBI agent who interviewed me that there were only three names on—either in the affidavit or stemming from her FBI interview...
...in fact, recently referred to yet another unsettling change in Hoerchner's sworn testimony during Senate debate on the nomination of Roberta Achtenberg as an assistant secretary at HUD...
...You said, going back to the you were the only person—Anita Hill told you you were the only person who knew about the allegations of sexual harassment, and you said that she reiterated that recently to you...
...Frank and Napolitano have served together as lawyers for the state Democratic Party...
...But DeConcini apparently saw the chance to atone for his sins against the feminists and, more importantly, eliminate a potential primary opponent...
...T he testimony of the next nominee to run the gantlet, however, could prove more interesting, for one of Hill's lawyers, Janet Napolitano, was nominated by the president on July 2 to be the U.S...
...They could then be told in no uncertain terms that a Hill nomination wouldn't fly...
...As he began the next round of questioning, Biden aide Mark Schwartz seemed to suggest that this "off-the-record" consultation was unusual: Q. Let's just say we took a break...
...But Seidman is likely to remain a staff-level operative, rather than-get promoted into the policy-making ranks...
...Q. I am just trying for the benefit of everybody to get to the truth, to pin down the A. I think I was...
...The team was hastily assembled by Emma Jordan and University of Southern California law professor Judith Resnik following -the reports of Hill's allegations on National Public Radio and in Newsday on October 5, 1991...
...I don't know what it was that happened...
...He then called a press conference to announce his choice publicly...
...Last March, Attorney General Janet Reno, in one of her first official acts, fired all ninety-three sitting U.S...
...A. Very recent, yes...
...Yet immediately after the Napolitano gap, Hoerchnerunprompted by any question—flatly changed her story...
...A. It may have been around the time that she wanted to know if I would talk to the FBI...
...He maintained that position unwaveringly throughout the second round of hearings...
...You were or were not living in Washington when you think you had this—do you think you were living in Washington or not...
...Like Anita Hill herself, Seidman bears an ethical taint from the anti-Thomas campaign...
...attorney—the top federal prosecutor—for the Arizona district...
...She also said she had "less than sporadic" contact with Hill thereafter...
...Q. So that would make it prior to September of 1981...
...Q. That you were the only person that knew...
...At the very least, an explanation from Janet Napolitano ought to be the price of confirmation...
...Despite some tough questioning in the hearing from North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms as well, Sherman breezed through...
...Seidman is now seen wherever a political brushfire needs to be doused—calling the shots in the budget reconciliation "war room," handling the details of the Clintons' blind trust after White House lawyer Vincent Foster's suicide, and, ironically, defending the administration's embattled nominees...
...Later, appraising Thomas's first year and a half on the court, the notoriously protean Boren threw a bone to Thomas's opponents by saying that he regretted the vote...
...attorney in Arizona...
...But Days, who was easily confirmed, had opposed Thomas on political grounds (he didn't like Thomas's critique of affirmative action), and wisely stayed out of the Anita Hill mess...
...Were you living in Washington at the time you two had this phone conversation...
...attorneys...
...Frank is also the lawyer Napolitano has to thank (or curse) for bringing her to Washington and onto the Anita Hill legal team...
...This could be the investigation that the American public never got, when the Senate decided that special counsel Peter Fleming would only look into the leak of Hill's allegations to the press rather than the central matter of who committed perjury...
...DeConcini, who was implicated in the Keating Five influence-peddling scandal, has more to worry about than his vote for Clarence Thomas...
...the Clinton administration was seeking to gauge the reaction of Judiciary Committee senators to the prospective nomination of Professor Hill to fill the Tenth Circuit vacancy...
...Napolitano orchestrated a highly controversial episode that bears on the truth of Hill's claims against Thomas and the veracity of Hill's star witness...
...Q. So we're talking the last couple of weeks of September...
...Can we talk for just a minute...
...Now the three names are, of course, herself, Thomas and myself...
...DeConcini and Janet Reno may think so, but Republicans should not pass up the only opportunity they are likely to get to find out what went on during the Napolitano gap, and whether Napolitano helped cover up the commission of a crime...
...Later] Q. I should have asked you this earlier, and I apologize...
...Wendy Sherman, therefore, was the first Clinton nominee to pass through the Anita Hill gantlet...
...What better way to avenge the Thomas victory...
...A. I think she told me that more recently...
...Hoerchner would testify on Sunday about one telephone call from Hill in which Hill allegedly complained of this harassment by Thomas...
...of The Exorcist and Long Dong Silver...
...Like Ricki Seidman, Frank has Robert Bork's blood on his hands...
...A. No...
...A. I think I was...
...At another point, a Napolitano interruption derailed a critical line of questioning as to whether Hoerchner had dealings with Senate staffers prior to the time that Hill's charges were made public...
...In any event, the response was, at best, less than promising for Anita Hill...
...T he prospective nomination of Hill to a federal judgeship, or to any other post, for that matter, has subsequently gone nowhere—though others with close connections to the hate campaigns waged against both Robert Bork and Justice Thomas have fared better...
...I recently came to the conclusion that I was the only one that she had told at the time...
...if political connections are paramount in such maneuvers, then Napolitano, who has no prosecutorial experience, fits an emerging pattern in this administration...
...When Newman's name surfaced in the press as a leading contender to replace White, Republicans were quick to circulate his unfortunate op-ed...
...The presidential polls hadn't been closed for long when DeConcini wrote to the president-elect recommending Napolitano as the candidate for U.S...
...Foolishness...
...Seidman had been People For's legal director during the Bork fight and was responsible for, among other slanders, an infamous advertisement on the judge's judicial record that his supporters found-to contain ninety-nine misstatements of fact...
...Before entering the Thomas-Hill fray, she was simply another well-connected feminist lawyer...
...Cohen...
...In the May re-shuffle that brought in David Gergen as counselor to the president, Seidman became an assistant to the president and counselor to chief of staff Mack McLarty...
...They are less skittish about the "Anita Hill effect...
...She has managed various state Senate races and worked on the Clinton campaign in Arizona...
...A. Yes...
...Hatch aides argue that they have chosen their targets carefully and point to Lani Guinier as Exhibit A.) If Hatch demurs, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who won a close re-election race against feminist fundraiser and Hill supporter Lynn Yeakel, may be curious about the famous change in Hill's testimony, when she at first claimed that she had not been told by Senate staffers that Thomas might withdraw his nomination if she came forward, and then admitted that she had been told just that...
...I am not sure which, I think the affidavit and that my name was the only one she had listed as a corroborating witness...
...She then clerked for Judge Mary Schroeder of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who is thought to have been considered for the recent high court vacancy...
...That morning, Hill had testified that 'she had gone to work for Thomas in the fall .of 1981 and that the harassment had commenced three months later, in December 1981 or January 1982...
...Wooten's palpable frustration goes to the heart of the matter: Did Napolitano instruct or advise Hoerchner to change her answers to the committee's questions...
...One of these responsibilities, apparently, was to monitor the interviews of witnesses conducted by committee lawyers prior to their sworn testimony...
...It is my impression the Clinton administration is searching for individuals who are intelligent, hard-working, and dedicated to public service...
...Democrat Boren, always an unpredictable swing vote on a close issue, told one of the committee's Republicans that the conservative politics in Oklahoma—where the University of Oklahoma professor is about as popular as the BTU tax—would compel him to vote against Hill, just as it had compelled him to vote for Clarence Thomas during the original confrontation...
...When the interview came back on the record, following the Napolitano gap, Hoerchner no longer recalled anything about the timing of the call or where she was living at the time—a posture she continued to maintain when questioned under oath on Sunday and subsequently...
...I called—let me Q. You want to go off the record...
...What Senator DeConcini is upset about is this foolishness about delaying her nomination because she was Anita Hill's lawyer," DeConcini's spokesman Bob Maynes told the newspaper...
...Hoerchner's recollection that the call took place prior to September 1981, when both she and Hill were living in Washington and Hill was working for the Wald, Harkrader & Ross law firm, vanished: Q. When you had the initial phone conversation with Anita Hill and she spoke for the first time about sexual harassment, do you recall where you were living—what city...
...A. I was living in Washington prior to that time...
...Q. When did she tell you that...
...That isn't something I can—Q...
...The nomination of Yale law professor Drew Days as solicitor general raised the question of whether he could serve effectively as the government's chief litigator, having previously testified before the Senate that a judge he would be appearing before=Thomas—was unqualified for the job...
...For several months, it was impossible to tell how seriously Metzenbaum's comment was to be taken...
...The Keating nomination had been left in a typical preelection confirmation limbo, as the Democrats hoped to capture the presidency and put their own people in...
...Lichtman lobbied a very reluctant Hill—using Georgetown University sexual harassment expert Susan Deller Ross as an intermediary—,to put the harassment charge in writing...
...Short of a hearing, any senator may have his staff investigators ask Napolitano about her role...
...Senators always play an important role in advising the White House on such nominations, but even so, DeConcini seemed to be in quite a hurry...
...In other words, by the logic of Hoerchner's account, she and Hill had not spoken during the entire time that Hill had worked for Thomas, and thus any sexual harassment complaint by Hill could not have been directed at him...
...attorney is just the place to try to lay these concerns to rest, but this may mean essentially re-opening the Senate hearings, taking on the culture that has mythologized Anita Hill, and crossing a powerful senator who is Napolitano's unlikely sponsor...
...This shift appears to have been made to cover up an embarrassing inconsistency in Hill's story...
...Hoerchner's amnesia about the call has overshadowed another clear shift in her account, again following the off-the-record consultation with Hill's lawyer...
...But that is correct, it was a break...
...A native of New Mexico, Napolitano, 35, attended the University of Santa Clara and the University of Virginia Law School...
...Clearly some in the new administration—perhaps even Hillary Rodham Clinton, who had praised Hill lavishly in an appearance at the American Bar Association Convention the previous summer—favored recognizing and rewarding the otherwise unaccomplished Hill for her role in the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings...
...DeConcini had broken ranks with committee Democrats and announced his support .of Thomas before Hill's charges surfaced...
...If Hill had told Hoerchner that she was the only witness, how could Hill have claimed—as she had that morning in sworn testimony—that she had told three others...
...When Senator Orrin Hatch, the committee's ranking Republican, was apprised of the July nomination, alarmbells went off...
...If it chose not to nominate Napolitano, for whatever reason, it would be flouting the wishes of the senior senator from Arizona, whose support would be needed to pass the president's ambitious domestic program...
...In the aftermath of the hearings, Janet Napolitano's name was bandied about in the "Year of the Woman" as a challenger to Arizona's Republican Senator John McCain...
...Sure...
...Georgetown University law professor Emma Jordan—a professional acquaintance of Hill's who assembled her legal team during the hearings, and was co-sponsor (with Hill) of last October's Georgetown conference on "Race, Gender and Power in America"—served as the Clinton transition adviser for the office of attorney general...
...Before being named U.S attorney, Napolitano had specialized in appellate and commercial litigation at the Phoenix law firm of Lewis & Roca...
...The interview then went off the record...
...Napolitano ultimately decided against making that race, though political observers speculated that she might challenge Senator Dennis DeConcini in the Democratic primary in 1994 on an "I believe Anita" platform...
...Hoerchner also indicated that she had been unsure that Thomas was the harasser Hill had complained about until Hill confirmed this to her in a conversation on the day Thomas was nominated to the high court...
...Hatch is close to DeConcini, and the relationship has paid off for the Republicans over the years (unlike Hatch's friendship with Ted Kennedy...
...Was this in one of those phone conversations...
...Since then, the skilled operative has risen fast...
...Sherman's answers were not terribly enlightening, because the lawyers and public relations people worked separately that weekend in October 1991, and she was not therefore at the center of the chicanery...
...Q. When she told you...
...In introducing her former aide to the committee, Mikulski did not mention Sherman's role in the Thomas hearings, though she did note, "She's combat-ready...
...It is widely thought that Newman was struck from the short list of contenders early on because the sitting judge had improperly inserted himself into the Thomas confirmation struggle...
...S hortly before last November's elections, Senator David Boren of Oklahoma made discreet inquiries with his Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the stalled nomination of Frank Keating, the former assistant attorney general and counsel to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp whom President Bush had nominated to be a judge on the Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, a district that includes Boren's home state...
...The Napolitano case provides a circumstance sufficiently extenuating to warrant -a hearing, particularly since the potential subornation of perjury occurred during a Judiciary Committee proceeding...
...Boren, however, was somewhat startled to learn who one of these people might be...
...Then, in March and April, other discreet inquiries were made...
...Newman raised questions about whether he had violated judicial ethics when he penned an openly partisan op-ed piece in the New York Times on the day Hill and Thomas were to appear before the Judiciary Committee...
...f so, this would be a serious ethical violation by / Napolitano, raising questions about her character and fitness to serve as a federal prosecutor...
...For her part, Napolitano downplayed her connection to Hill, saying her role was "a four-day representation in a ten-year legal career...
...It was, in fact, I think, designed to, if not deceive, at least to confuse, to be less than candid...
...A long Washington Times editorial in May warned of potential rough sledding for a Napolitano nomination, but it was sent forward regardless on July 2. A Senate hearing for a U.S...
...Q. Okay...
...I am a little concerned when I ask you a question now—you know, I don't mind people consulting their lawyer, but to go out and talk about it and come back, I am concerned about how that may affect the answer I am trying to get...
...Ever heard of Janet Napolitano...
...it was not candid...
...According to an April report in the Arizona Republic, a White House personnel official, Kevin O'Keefe, told staffers to DeConcini that Napolitano was not named as the interim attorney general because of concerns about her role on Hill's legal team...
...attorney in Phoenix, to fill the post on an interim basis after Reno cleaned house...
...Napolitano's pending Senate confirmation for the four-year post of U.S...
...She ought to know: Seidman and People For had used this very issue to derail the nomination of Florida federal judge Kenneth Ryskamp during the Bush years...
...Indeed, her only recollection of a conversation with Hill after September 1981 was in December 1984, long after Hill herself had left Washington...
...Specter is also the only senator who questioned Hoerchner publicly about the changes in her story...
...A former top aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski and former executive director of EMILY's List, Sherman was a member of Hill's public relations team, which convened along with her lawyers at a downtown Washington law firm on the day before Hill testified publicly...
...She never told me until recently...
...Ruff was derailed when it was revealed he had not paid Social Security taxes for domestic help...
...Q. Okay...
...Reading the entire Simpson-Hoerchner exchange into the record, Cohen said, "What struck me about the testimony was that it was not forthright...
...A. Okay...
...But if the FBI had told Hoerchner, well, the FBI could have had incomplete information...
...This is a court that will violate its own procedures and precedents," Napolitano was quoted as saying...
...Imploring President Bush to withdraw the Thomas nomination, Newman wrote: The president said Judge Thomas was the person best qualified in the entire country...
...A. Yes...
...By a- certain point in Hoerchner's interview with Judiciary Committee staffers, the lawyers present, including Napolitano, seemed to notice that Hoerchner's story did not jibe with Hill's...
...In any case, it seems implausible that the FBI would divulge confidential information from Hill's FBI interview to a witness...
...If so, as a lawyer Napolitano can be held responsible for the changed testimony...
...In the Thomas nomination, Seidman would stoop lower...
...Discussing a fishy aspect of Achtenberg's confirmation testimony, Cohen referred to Hoerchner's testimony during the Thomas hearings, when she said she had not filed a sexual harassment complaint against a fellow workmen's compensation judge...
...she worked very closely with Seidman on the Bork nomination, but unlike her compatriot, Verveer was not involved in soliciting or publicizing Hill's charges...
...Senator John Danforth of Missouri, still distraught over the savaging of Thomas, submitted a detailed list of written questions to Sherman, relating to her role in helping prepare Hill's testimony...
...Under oath for Senate confirmation and subject to an FBI background check, she would risk exposure of her nefarious plotting—and possible criminality...
...E ven so, the White House was not immediately prepared to accede to DeConcini's wishes...
...Hatch might also allay the concerns of some in the GOP that the committee, under his leadership, has been too easy on Clinton nominees...
...Another almost-nominee was Charles F. C. Ruff, a former U.S...
...Since Napolitano was Hill's lawyer, not Hoerchner's, it is unclear whether she would be able to claim attorney-client privilege if questioned under oath about changes in Hoerchner's testimony...
...Napolitano may have coached Hoerchner on the changes Friday and allowed her to commit perjury on Sunday to protect Hill's case from unravelling...
...The trial balloon thus would be floated and shot down simultaneously...
...Clarence Thomas had no such representation in these interviews...
...After the presidential campaign, Seidman, considered part of Hillary's circle, won a position as deputy to then–communications director George Stephanopoulos in the White House...
...Questions remain about whether Seidman later lied to Fleming (and thereby violated the False Statements Act) in denying knowledge of, and complicity in, the leak...
...Q. So it was prior to September of 1981...
...While Hoerchner was not under oath during the committee interview, she was under oath on Sunday, when she repeated the altered story, telling the committee that shecould remember nothing about the timing or date of the phone call and that it was the FBI—not Hill—who told her she was the only witness...
...A sometime adviser to Judiciary Committee chairman Joseph Biden, Dellinger, who worked hand in glove with both Seidman and Verveer against Bork, told the Senate that his role in the Thomas fight had been limited to analyzing Thomas's views on natural law...
...Napolitano's ideological and political godfather at Lewis & Roca is partner John Frank, the former Yale law professor who argued the landmark Miranda case before the Supreme Court in 1964...
...0 n the afternoon of Friday, October 11, the committee conducted an interview of Judge Susan Hoerchner, Hill's main witness...
...But once again the seriousness of Hill's boosters was in question...
...Likewise Walter Dellinger, the Duke University law professor who is now head of the Office of Legal Counsel at Justice...
...Why not score political points by defending his role in the hearings and investigating a key discrepancy thoroughly...
...She joined the Kennedy staff as a Labor Committee investigator shortly after Thomas was named and promptly began digging for dirt on the nominee...
...After the plan to scuttle the nomination behind the scenes failed, Seidman played a role in the leaking of, Hill's confidential allegations to the media...
...In April, Justice named Daniel Knauss, the deputy U.S...
...Meet the PCTC, a Post Clarence Thomas Candidate...
...This was a man who, after all, had imported Barbara Mikulski to his state six months after the hearings to endorse his re-election...
...A. Okay...
...Hatch campaigned for DeConcini in 1988, outraging the GOP...
...Why Hill's team was permitted to attend the interviews remains a mystery...
...A. I don't know for sure...
...In effect, DeConcini rolled Clinton on Napolitano long before he rolled him on the budget...
...The changes in testimony by Hoerchner appear to be far clearer cases of perjury than any "lying to Congress" charges ever pursued against the Republicans in the Reagan-Bush years...
...I'm not sure that was the time of the phone call, but I really think it was...
...Who is Janet Napolitano...
Vol. 26 • October 1993 • No. 10
