1.   Along with spokesman McCurry, Lanny Davis, a White House special counsel, serves as the maestro of scandal spinning.

2.   And Gregory Craig, special counsel to Clinton, said the House prosecutors failed to meet their constitutional burden.

3.   Appearing along with Ruff in the Senate will be Gregory Craig, the White House special counsel hired by Clinton to help manage his impeachment defense.

4.   As a part-time special counsel, Chertoff is conducting internal investigations and setting up a code of ethics, which the county government has never had.

5.   Any other recent ethics committee, however, quickly would have bundled the rest of the case against Gingrich off to a special counsel.

6.   As for the special counsel law, it expires next year and should not be renewed in anything remotely resembling its present unaccountable form, if at all.

7.   As part of an agreement with the Rockland County district attorney, the company hired a special counsel to conduct an internal investigation.

8.   Assemblyman Guy Gregg said McGreevey himself had made controversial appointments to the positions of state police superintendent and special counsel on homeland security.

9.   As special counsel, Manning is supposed to probe whether any assets have been hidden from the Bankruptcy Court.

10.   At a similar stage in the Wright case, Gingrich demanded a full-scale investigation by the special counsel.