61.   The report of its outside counsel, James Cole, will now almost certainly remain secret.

62.   The surge in legal expenses appears to be related to the ongoing probe by James Cole, the outside counsel hired in January by the House ethics committee.

63.   The troubling fact for Gingrich is that an outside counsel can be a lot more trouble than any Democrat.

64.   Their first decision should be to retain an outside counsel to assure that the committee has a prompt and trustworthy investigation for a change.

65.   The word among law enforcement officials has been that she is likely to find insufficient grounds to warrant an outside counsel.

66.   Thursday, the Chicago lawyer who investigated Wright, Richard Phelan, called on Gingrich to support appointment of an outside counsel.

67.   Until now, the committee had been stalemated with Democrats insisting on hiring an outside counsel to conduct an investigation.

68.   When it was finally forced to appoint an outside counsel, it narrowly limited the focus of his investigation.

69.   Without an outside counsel, Democrats and several public interest groups maintain, no investigation of someone as powerful as the speaker can enjoy credibility among the public.

70.   Freeh insisted that Reno should have asked for an outside counsel to investigate the allegations, but she declined to do so.