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...Starr spending $30 million in taxpayer dollars over four years. That makes Starr's the most spendthrift of the six independent counsel probes now under way, and means his probe is nearing the $40 million cost of the most expensive independent counsel probe ever conducted, Lawrence Walsh's Iran-Contra investigation...
...movie, The Day After, that dramatized the clinical horrors of a nuclear exchange. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. had broken off all arms-control negotiations and were arming rival sides in shooting wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua (whose anticommunist guerrillas would play a central role in the great Iran-contra scandal of the Reagan years...
...hearing kicked off at 10 a.m. in an especially large room used for major hearings such as Iran-Contra. By 1 p.m. the audience started to thin out. McNealy and all but four senators left...
...wired Linda Tripp to tape Lewinsky. Starr's defenders say he was simply pursuing a credible lead that walked in the door. "There's a pretty decent argument it's related to what he's already doing," says John Barrett, who was an attorney in the Iran-contra probe of Lawrence Walsh. But to Starr's critics, the wiring of Tripp was outside his legal authority because its connection to Whitewater was so tenuous. Starr also arguably subverted the protections built into the independent-counsel law by making it impossible for the Justice Department to conduct its own investigation...
...under powerful pressure to step down. "The Democrats would force the President out before it got that far," says George Washington University law professor Stephen Saltzburg. "They would not allow him to take the party down with him." The truth will likely emerge soon. "This is not Iran-contra or Watergate--it's not that complicated," notes Saltzburg. No, it's not. When a fuller picture emerges, Clinton's case will be decided in the court of public opinion long before it finds its way into a court...