This NYT piece is about as "scrubbed" as it's going to get.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in that room tonight, when they talked about just how much they HAD to print.
This is way too big for even the NYT's to sweep under the rug. The RATS are going down over this one
An intense 49-year-old Arkansas lawyer for whom a blue blazer passes as casual attire, Lindsey serves as the invisible "captain of the defense," as one former White House colleague put it, for the crisis of the moment. Lindsey's preferred modus operandi, as described by those who have worked with him over the years, is to tamp down trouble even before it erupts or, when pressed, to relinquish only whatever tiny morsels of information he judges sufficient to keep the news media at bay.
Whether the allegations involve the draft, sexual liaisons or Whitewater, Lindsey functions as the president's political lookout, bearer of bad news and chief damage control specialist.
"There is no end to which Bruce wouldn't go for the president," said Bill Burton, a fellow Arkansan and former White House colleague. "There are things Bruce would do for the president that nobody else on Earth would do, and Bruce wouldn't even think twice about it."