61.   Sam Dash, the former Senate Watergate counsel who has advised Starr on ethics issues, also played a pivotal role.

62.   Sam Dash, the former Senate Watergate counsel who has advised Starr on ethics issues, also played an important role.

63.   Starr was the former independent counsel who investigated President Clinton on a variety of matters, including the White House sex scandal that led to his impeachment.

64.   Stephanie Bell-Rose, the former counsel at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an expert on underachieving minority students, was named as president.

65.   Still, the conflict is one that could merit Supreme Court intervention, former EEOC general counsel Don Livingston said.

66.   Ted Sorensen, former special counsel to President John F. Kennedy, weighs in on patriotism and service.

67.   Testimony Thursday from Bernard W. Nussbaum, former White House counsel, identified the White House official as Margaret Williams, the chief of staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

68.   Such arguments raised the ire of former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who is employed by the anti-Microsoft lobbying group ProComp.

69.   That practice was confirmed by Harry Bonsall, former general counsel from First Interstate Bank.

70.   Testifying before the committee Wednesday, a panel of legal experts, including several former independent counsels, disagreed on whether the law should be allowed to expire.