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Lindsey can take comfort in the fact that when he was last snared by the Starr machine, he came out intact. In 1996 Starr named him as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the case of two Arkansas bankers, Herby Branscum Jr. and Robert M. Hill, who were involved in Clinton's 1990 campaign for Governor. Lindsey was accused of trying to persuade Branscum and Hill not to file the required federal forms when the campaign made large transactions in cash. Lindsey testified that he made no such effort. The jury acquitted Branscum and Hill of some charges and deadlocked on the rest, and Starr's case collapsed. The judge in the case, however, Susan Webber Wright, who now presides over the Paula Jones trial, ruled in a sealed finding during the case that a preponderance of the evidence deeply implicated Lindsey. As he faces Starr a second time, Lindsey may have to explain why he's not implicated in the latest Clinton scandal. But the White House may come to his rescue: sources tell TIME that it is considering invoking attorney-client privilege at least to shield Lindsey's conversations with the President.
--By James Collins. Reported by James Carney, Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf/Washington