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Then there's Linda Tripp, whose voice we heard for the first time this week. Addressing an ungrateful nation from the courthouse beach, as the grand-jury stakeout is known, and shaking like a leaf, Tripp made a desperate effort to humanize herself as a truth-seeking patriot, a "suburban mom" protecting her kids. "Who am I?" she began. "I'm you," she answered, "an average American." I shouted back at the TV, "No, you're NOT! Take that back...
...enough to get her what she wanted most: a gold-plated GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card for herself and her mother. And within 48 hours Starr's team had what it wanted too: the leverage to force the President of the United States to promise to tell the grand jury the Whole Truth about his relationship with Monica; and the dark blue, high-necked dress--which turns out to be from, of all places, the Gap--that might prove whether he actually does...
...relatively slim results and an ever expanding mandate to search for potential illegality. No regular prosecutor could spend unlimited resources prosecuting perjury in a civil deposition about a sexual matter in a case that has been dismissed. And any private citizen finding himself in the cross hairs of a grand jury would get very clear advice from his lawyer: Don't help the prosecutor set you up. Say nothing. Take the Fifth if you have to, but don't hurt yourself...
...Wednesday, not just Tuesday and Thursday, as Oval Office secretary Betty Currie wrapped up her testimony. The next day Clinton confidant Harold Ickes reappeared, along with the head of the President's Secret Service detail and two uniformed officers. Starr was pushing ahead so fast that he used two grand juries simultaneously to collect testimony...
...even longer delay in the prosecutor's pursuit of his real targets. Moreover, now that he had set the clock ticking on Clinton's testimony, it was more important than ever that he hear from Monica first. She was the force who would move the President before his grand jurors. As a Lewinsky lawyer told TIME, "They needed us. They were driven...