As noted earlier in the thread, he was counsel for the Republicans on congressional Whitewater investigation. I clearly recall watching the hearings with a little hope that some accoutability would be called upon regarding the clintons.
How naive I was.
June 14, 2003
"WASHINGTON -- No fellow Democrat volunteered to give Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton protective cover when she was the only senator voting against the nomination of Michael Chertoff as a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. Chertoff was chief counsel of the Senate's 1995 investigation of the investment by the Clintons in the Whitewater project..."