Lanny Davis
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"Lanny Jesse Davis" is an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues. In 2005, President George W. Bush appointed Davis to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act. Davis's clients have included Porton Group, National Women's History Museum, National Black Chamber of Commerce, eHealth, Sofitel Hotels, Trent Lott, Gene Upshaw, Dan Snyder, Martha Stewart and the Office of the President at Penn State University. Davis is currently a Fox News Contributor and has a column called "Purple Nation" that appears regularly in The Hill (newspaper)/The Hill, The Huffington Post, FoxNews.com, The Daily Caller, and Newsmax. He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he won the Thurman Arnold Moot Court prize and served on the Yale Law Journal. As a Yale undergraduate, Davis served as chairman of the Yale Daily News.

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The president has stated that he cannot say that out of the hundreds and hundreds of calls he made to supporters that he never asked for financial support. He said that he cannot recall specifically asking for contributions during these calls, though he may well have.

The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken coming home to roost.

There is nobody on either side of the aisle that thinks there was anything even possible that Sandy could have done deliberately here.

Duncan is not only hurting himself in Baltimore, where people are just getting to know him, but also in Montgomery County, where people don't like negative politics, ... I think it's very risky.

There's no cause and effect between that particular incident and the policy that had been debated and evolving way before those contributions came in.

Since last August, the new chairman of the board, Roel Pieper, came up against a cesspool of financial issues.

We gave them what we thought they wanted.

I'm sure a sitting Supreme Court justice believes that providing some final closure on all these legal arguments might be a good thing here.

He cannot erase the fact that he put his privacy rights ahead of the need to find that young woman.