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...been in the dumps ever since William Ginsburg departed. While Ginsburg was on the case, I'd figured that Kenneth Starr would eventually have to indict Monica Lewinsky, and I was looking forward to the criminal trial of the century, at least this year's criminal trial of the century, being fought out between two lawyers who had never before tried a criminal case...
...court would investigate, indict and prosecute human rights violators not prosecuted in their own countries, such as Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein. Washington -- backed by China, Russia and France -- wants a veto out fear that U.S. operations abroad could be compromised. Britain has broken ranks with the Security Council's Big Five: "The British realize that for the court to have any credibility it has to have equal justice rather than appear to be the strong countries zeroing in on the weak," says Dowell. But with a sticking point so fundamental, it's just as well that the talks...
...other Starr witnesses looked a lot less promising. He could indict Susan McDougal for criminal contempt before his Arkansas grand jury packs up and goes home this week, but she has already shown that she prefers ankle chains to testifying against the President. And although Starr indicted Clinton pal Webb Hubbell last week (along with his wife Suzanna, his lawyer and his accountant), it was only for alleged tax crimes that are typically handled as civil matters, which even some of Starr's supporters felt was a stretch. Sources tell TIME that Starr's office is weighing still more charges...
Starr has another alternative: he can indict Lewinsky for perjury and obstruction. That way, if Lewinsky doesn't help Starr make his case to Congress, he will have a chance to make it in a court. She would be defendant, not star witness, and through her prosecution Starr could introduce Tripp's tapes and the evidence he has gathered in the past three months. "This is a law-enforcement issue, not a political issue," says a lawyer in the case. "If you don't think Congress will do anything with it, why not try it and let it come...
Ginsburg remains outwardly confident this won't happen, crediting Starr with a sharper political sense than he has displayed so far. Indicting Lewinsky, says her lawyer, would be a p.r. disaster. Many outside lawyers generally agree: she can deny having sex with the President, say she was fantasizing on those tapes and stalking and hanging around, but nothing more. If she calls the President to testify on her behalf, he'll say the same things. Everything else Starr has is largely circumstantial, so long as everyone sticks to the script. And to indict her for lying about...