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WASHINGTON: Is Ken Starr out of control? That's the contention of White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who was called before the special prosecutor's 23-member grand jury Tuesday -- but fought against appearing right down to the last minute. "This subpoena is an assault on the First Amendment," Blumenthal, a former journalist, said Monday night. "I'm incensed, outraged." Not to mention peeved. A petulant Jo Marsh, Blumenthal's attorney, complained that Starr's people had dragged them down to the courthouse, only to keep them cooling their heels while they decided when her client would testify...
...Ken Starr's defenders argue that he is only following standard procedure. But does anyone remember Ted Bundy's mother being called? Or John Gotti's? Surely the parent-child bond is equal to that between husband and wife. Children should be encouraged to confide in their parents, to tell us their secrets, to turn to us for help, in complete confidentiality. It's because we know so much that we shouldn't, by all we hold dear, be made to divulge it. The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination ought to include the right not to incriminate a child...
...conversations we have with our children are not safe from the government. It seems quaint that on the day Monica was handed over by Tripp to Starr's deputies, she could turn to her mother with the expectation that whatever she said, Mom wouldn't tell. But in Ken Starr's America, moms do tell--or else...
...find Lewinsky a job at Revlon a mere three days after he learned she was to be a witness in the Paula Jones suit. What this shows is that Whitewater prosecutors appear to be working toward a Jordan indictment, either for suborning perjury or obstructing justice. Note to Ken Starr -- if you want to try a groundbreaking civil rights lawyer...
...days on the stand before Ken Starr's grand jury, Bruce Lindsey has been doing most of his talking in judge's chambers. Lawyers on both sides are haggling with U.S. District Judge Norma Hollaway Johnson over what questions Lindsey has to answer. "It's a dance," says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief J.F.O. McAllister. "The White House people say 'We don't want you to ask him that,' and Starr's side says, 'Well, what if we do?' And then the White House threatens to invoke executive privilege...