Word: counsels
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...unlikable Bakaly a fall guy for a sinister independent counsel, trapped by a McCurry-like ignorance of the dirty dealing going on behind his back? Or are Bakaly and Starr both blameless, betrayed by a leaky staffer? Maybe everybody's lying - in those heady days of scandal management, press manipulation (and re-manipulation) was certainly par for the course...
...Starr is under the judicial microscope again, at least by proxy. Starr's old spokesman from the Monicagate days, Charles Bakaly, will be in the criminal dock starting July 13 for denying alleged leaks from Starr's office during the independent counsel's 1999 investigation into all things President Clinton, according to court documents released late Thursday. Here's the hot quote, uttered on national TV by Bakaly after The New York Times, citing sources, reported on July 31, 1999, that Starr had concluded the President could legally be indicted while still in office...
...inquisitor didn't agree. Last week Republicans on Capitol Hill leaked word that Conrad, head of the Justice Department's campaign-finance task force, has recommended that Attorney General Janet Reno appoint a special counsel to probe whether some of Gore's responses were untruthful. Reno's decision could be weeks away, but the disclosure that she is once again considering a larger investigation of Gore comes at a bad time for a candidate with a flagging campaign...
...that would send Republicans on Capitol Hill through the roof--again. They've already been in nosebleed territory as memos have surfaced, even into this year, showing that in 1997 and 1998 several top aides recommended that Reno request an independent counsel on the question of Gore's fund-raising calls from the White House, and whether he lied about their nature. Gore might, for the first time, be wishing she had pulled the trigger then; at least it might be over...
...GORE Possible special counsel fund-raising probe makes you sweat. Iced...