"The reference is to February 1993 when Clinton fired all 93 U.S. Attorneys who had been appointed by George Bush. One of them was Stephens, who was then U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and developing a case against House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski -- a pivotal Clinton ally in the battle for health-care reform -- for diverting taxpayers' money to personal and campaign funds. Stephens charged that the mass firing was a way of derailing the Rostenkowski investigation. The RTC, however, chose Stephens precisely because he could be trusted to carry out an investigation that would not back away from information potentially embarrassing to Clinton. Stephanopoulos adds: "Once I got the facts from Josh ((Steiner)), that ended the matter, as far as I was concerned."

But that is not the story Fiske and the grand jury have been hearing from some others. As pieced together by TIME from a review of documents and interviews with many sources -- Administration officials, lawyers for some of the 12 Clinton aides subpoenaed by Fiske and sources involved with the special counsel's probe..
..Further down the road, says a White House official, "it depends on whether Fiske wants to indict some White House folks. Indictments he could get easily. Convictions are another matter." In any case, he says, the conversations are "the most damaging Whitewater-related stuff so far."

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