Executive Privilege: An Old, Uphill Struggle; Clinton Unlikely to Prevail on a Claim to Limit Testimony in Starr Probe, Some Specialists Say From: The Washington Post | Date: February 20, 1998| Author: Ruth Marcus | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Legal experts said yesterday the White House faces an uphill struggle to use executive privilege to limit testimony by deputy White House counsel Bruce Lindsey or other senior Clinton advisers.

"There's nothing I've been able to see from the newspapers in terms of what these people would be asked that would suggest a claim of executive privilege would properly be asserted," said Duke University law professor William Van Alstyne. "It may be asserted anyway and may help to delay...

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