Reply #3: Yes, he was the Republican counsel to the Senate Whitewater committee.

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http://www.waasinfo.com/clients/waas/geo/amerpro/waas-m-06-01.html

The same day that Hillary Clinton urged her colleagues to mount a filibuster to stop Olson's nomination, the former first lady displayed her lingering and deep resentment over the Whitewater probes of her and her husband by casting the sole vote opposing the Justice Department nominations of two lawyers who had connections to the Whitewater investigation.

The first, Michael Chertoff, a former U.S. attorney in New Jersey, who served as the Republican counsel to the Senate Whitewater committee, had been nominated by President Bush to head the Justice Department's criminal division. The Senate voted 95-1 to confirm Chertoff's nomination.

A second nominee was Viet Dinh, a Georgetown University law school professor, who had served as both an associate counsel to the Senate Whitewater committee and as an attorney for Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr. Dinh had been nominated by President Bush to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy. His nomination was approved by the Senate 96-1.