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...military officers toured the country rounding up opponents of Pinochet's junta and summarily executing them. The judge's arrest order came as a surprise, since he had previously ordered medical and psychological tests to determine the general's competency to stand trial, and had not been expected to indict Pinochet before the results are received sometime in January...
...question of whether to indict Clinton began in 1999, after his acquittal in the Senate. In internal discussions led by Starr, some of his prosecutors noted the difficulty of convicting a popular President, despite what they saw as strong evidence at least of perjury in the PAULA JONES sexual-harassment suit. Others argued against second-guessing a jury and urged pursuing the case on its merits...
...Lewinsky scandal followed years of Executive Branch stonewalling in several other investigations. Some of it, Starr's team believed, was criminal. Prosecutors closed their Whitewater grand jury inquiry in 1998, Schmidt and Weisskopf report, convinced that Hillary Clinton had lied to investigators, though they lacked sufficient evidence to indict her. Later, as the Lewinsky scandal progressed, the stonewalling included the Secret Service's "protective function privilege," a fanciful legal gambit designed by Justice Department lawyers to prevent agents from testifying. Starr had reason to believe that this was undertaken on Clinton's specific instruction, despite the President's pronouncements that...
ROBERT RAY Ugh, we're seeing Starrs: indie counsel says he might indict Clinton...
...search continues, eventually becoming an obsession in her young life, to the point that Rosetta loses touch with her mother, her best friend, and eventually herself. Fortunately, in examining the minute details of this deplorable world, the narrative begins to extrapolate beyond mere plot points, and becomes a searing indictment of the system that Rosetta attempts to indict...