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What's truly troubling, however, is the chummy meeting in the Senate dining room that took place three weeks before Starr was chosen. On July 14 David Sentelle, who heads the three-judge panel that fired Robert Fiske and retained Starr, had lunch with Senator Lauch Faircloth, the North Carolina Republican who led the charge for Fiske's dismissal. To hear Faircloth tell it, he and Sentelle (and Senator Jesse Helms, who was also present) talked about Western hats, old friends and prostate problems. Sentelle, however, has said only that "to the best of my recollection," he and the Senators...
...Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence on the part of the counsel." That apparent independence was compromised when Sentelle met with Faircloth and Helms...
...successor to Whitewater special prosecutor Robert Fiske, who has a long history as a Republican activist. Their doubts were heightened by news reports that Judge David B. Sentelle, one of the panel of three judges who chose Starr, had recently been lunching with North Carolina Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth, one of Fiske's harshest critics. Though Sentelle says he and Faircloth never discussed Fiske, Democratic House whip David Bonior suggested last week that their meeting "should be a subject of investigation itself...
While congressional Republicans had praised Fiske when he was first appointed, lately many of them have complained about a lack of aggressiveness in Fiske's investigation and his ties to some members of the Administration. Leading the chorus was Senator Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, who pointed out last week that former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum had once recommended Fiske for a job with the Iran-contra independent counsel...
...most extreme proposal, with very little chance of passage, is the Talent-Faircloth bill, introduced by Representative James Talent and Senator Lauch Faircloth. Their plan would deny benefits to unwed mothers under 21, without promising them a job or any other means of support. The savings would go to the states for setting up orphanages and group homes. To those who have called these requirements harsh, Talent replies: "What the existing system does is tell young people they can raise a child without waiting until they're old enough to handle the responsibility. It's a cruel lie to people...