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Uviller finds the Supreme Court's decision in the case against Webster Hubbell troubling because, having rejected the correct understanding of the 'Fisher' doctrine expressed by the dissenting judge, the majority directs the remand of the case to determine a question that goes well beyond what 'Fisher' requires and comes close to allowing the Fifth Amendment 'privilege' to shield the contents of freely written documents.

\"I have worked with Webb Hubbell for a year now,\" Ms. [Janet Reno] said at a news conference. \"I have been extraordinarily impressed with his honesty, his candor, his professionalism and the sacrifices he's making to serve the American people.\" \"At this point I have no substantiated information that Mr. Hubbell has done anything wrong,\" Ms. Reno said.

THE PROBLEM WITH WILD-ANIMAL documentaries, a zoo keeper once told me, is that they're all about sex and death. Camera crews will sit for hours watching a lion snooze, yet once the tape is edited what audiences see is not the endless snoozing but the brief savage drama in which the lion awakes to mate or to maul a hyena. With the result that zoo-goers are disappointed to see animals lying under trees and hiding behind bushes and generally doing what animals do most of the time, which is to say very little. Or rather, our impression of animals is much like our impression of marriages. With the help, again, of TV, and of fiction in general -- a category that includes not only novels and movies and glossy magazines but also, say, almost any public event involving Bill and Hillary Clinton -- our culture encourages the notion that marriages are stage-worthy dramas, full of yearning and passion as well as betrayal and plate-throwing, a kind of Mutual of Omaha excursion into the heart. When in fact the bulk of marital conversations sound like this:

One is that he shortchanged his partners in a case involving his in-laws, costing them substantial sums in billings and expenses that they now challenge. Questions have also been raised involving his representation of the Resolution Trust Company in a suit against the auditors of Madison Guaranty, a failed savings and loan run by the Clintons' business partner, James McDougal. The issue is whether Mr. [Webster Hubbell] properly disclosed to the R.T.C. that the Rose Law Firm had previously represented Madison and that Mr. Hubbell's father-in-law had been involved in tangled litigation with Madison.

Webster Hubbell, third in command of the Justice Department and a personal friend of Pres Clinton, may have unethically played both sides in litigation involving Madison Guaranty, the failed S&L owned by James McDougal, the Clintons' partner in the Whitewater vacation-home development.

Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday ridiculed allegations that the White House arranged hush money for her former law partner Webster L. Hubbell, likening them to the spaceship fantasies of the California cult whose members committed mass suicide last month. During an interview on WAMU-FM's \"Diane Rehm Show,\" the first lady said she was duped by Hubbell and lost money as a result of his bilking scheme at the Arkansas law firm where they once worked. Senior administration officials, she said, were merely trying to help a friend through \"a rough patch\" when they helped him find lucrative employment before he went to prison. The White House recently acknowledged that senior aides to the president -- including Chief of Staff Erskine B. Bowles and counselor Thomas F. \"Mack\" McLarty -- tried to line up work for Hubbell after he resigned as associate attorney general in 1994. Hubbell was paid more than $500,000 during this period while he was under investigation, including $100,000 from the Indonesia-based Lippo Group that later emerged as a central player in campaign fund-raising investigations.

Webster Hubbell's most successful days might have come just before he went to jail. That's when he made about $500,000. To invoke the cliches about Webster Hubbell, the former associate attorney general and friend to the Clintons, he is a bear of a man, affable and sweet, a former football hero who showed he had that special touch when, at the age of only 31, he became mayor of Little Rock. Hubbell, you will recall, was Bill and Hillary's man in the Justice Department. He had headed the litigation section of the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton had been a partner, and he often played golf with Bill Clinton. Through his father-in-law, he also was connected to the very important and controversial Castle Grande real estate deal that has especially interested the special prosecutor. If there is anything at all to that fog of a scandal called Whitewater, Hubbell might know it. In the month Hubbell resigned from the Justice Department, Riady often was at the White House. One day, in fact, he went to the White House after having breakfast with Hubbell and then saw him again at lunch. This was around the time, reports my colleague Susan Schmidt, that Hubbell went on the Lippo payroll.

The possibility that Mr. [Robert B. Fiske Jr.] may open a criminal inquiry into Mr. [Webster L. Hubbell]'s billings surfaced today at a hearing on the appointment of Jamie S. Gorelick to take over the No. 2 job in the Justice Department. At the hearing, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said he had discussed the billings issue with the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week. Senator Grassley's comments on Whitewater were just a small part of today's hearing on Ms. Gorelick, who is now the Pentagon's top lawyer. After the hearing, it appeared likely that the Judiciary Committee would recommend her confirmation. Replacement for [Philip B. Heymann] Senator Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican, praised Ms. Gorelick but said he was worried that the Justice Department \"still has not settled down\" more than a year after Mr. [Clinton] took office, a reference to vacancies left unfilled and the departure or announced departure of Ms. [Janet Reno]'s top two aides.

\"There's no evidence he's done anything contrary to the Clintons' direction,\" said William Kristol, the director of the Project for the Republican Future. \"The Clintons have an extraordinary inability to distinguish public from private, official from personal.\" Using Classic Defense Marlin Fitzwater, the press secretary for President George Bush and spokesman for President Ronald Reagan, said that the blind spots that always exist with regard to a First Lady are intensified when the spouse has such unprecedented power. \"The senior staff always fears crossing a First Lady,\" he said. \"Partly, it's the respect for the office of First Lady. Partly, it's a man-woman thing. You're afraid that when she's home with the President, she'll repeat the charges against you every night for the rest of your life.\" \"No one wants to tell [Clinton], or especially [Hillary Rodham Clinton], that they can't do things the way they're used to doing them,\" explained a top Administration official. \"And so many of these people around them are old friends, that you can't just break into the circle.\"

So, if the average American has any image of Hubbell, it's probably as an affable, drawling Arkansan, a buddy of the first couple who turned out to be a felon. The general public may have neither the time nor the inclination to listen to Hubbell's apology. Unlike Nixon, he's not grand enough to seem malignant. And unlike Robert McNamara -- whom people very much wanted to hear apologize, even if they didn't believe him -- Hubbell hasn't become a linchpin for history. Hubbell already feels as far away as Bert Lance. He does so at length in a book released today: \"Friends in High Places: Our Journey From Little Rock to Washington, D.C.\" Whitewater junkies and conspiracy theorists might be disappointed by the book: There are no shattering revelations, no smoking gun, no damning details. A lot of people -- including Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr -- think Hubbell knows more than he's telling. Some think he's the link that can take Whitewater to the White House. Asked why he didn't write a tell-all book, Hubbell laughs with exasperation: Of course, there is another possible reason: Hubbell is still under investigation by Starr, this time for about $500,000 in consulting fees Hubbell received after he resigned from the No. 3 post at the Justice Department in March 1994. Some of the money was paid by the Lippo Group, the Indonesian-based conglomerate at the center of inquiries into Democratic fund-raising. At least one congressman has wondered aloud if it was \"hush money\" paid to keep Hubbell from singing to the feds about what he might know about Whitewater and the Clintons. Hubbell won't comment on the consulting money he was paid, saying that, even though he gave up his law license, he is still bound by attorney-client privilege.