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...comes to resemble his quarry. Like the President, Starr is developing a tendency to get a little momentum going, then do something to trip himself up. Last February, for instance, he told a federal judge that he had received important new information from the Clintons' former business partner Jim McDougal on a key portion of the investigation. Nine days later, Starr announced that he was abandoning the Whitewater probe to become a California law-school dean. (A chorus of jeers forced him to reconsider.) And in a major victory last week, he won the Supreme Court's tacit approval...
Even to some defenders, Starr is beginning to look like a detective who has lost the thread of his case. Named in 1994 to investigate the Clintons' Whitewater land investment with Jim and Susan McDougal--a mandate that was broadened to include Vince Foster's suicide, the White House travel-office firings, the Administration's possible misuse of FBI files and several other matters--Starr has obtained 12 convictions and guilty pleas. But nearly three years and more than $30 million later, the American public is little closer to understanding the circumstances and import of the original land deals. Questions...
...Clinton's romantic life was driven partly by frustration and partly by a fastidious nature that wants to run down every lead. Decision time on prosecutions is near, they say, and with some sources of information apparently closed off, Starr is doing a final casting of the net. Susan McDougal has sat behind bars since last fall for refusing to cooperate, and former Justice Department official Webster Hubbell, who has already done hard time, says he won't help Starr further. In searching for other confidants, Starr hopes to establish whether Clinton told the truth when he testified that...
LEXINGTON, Kentucky: A surprisingly cheerful Jim McDougal reported for what he called a three-year "adventure" in jail, dropping a word of warning for President Clinton. Asked by reporters outside the Federal Medical Center Institution in Lexington if his cooperation with Whitewater prosecutors would prove damaging to the Clintons, McDougal allowed that it certainly couldn't help them. Maybe so, but McDougal has little credibility. His willingness to cooperate with Starr has slashed his possible 84-year prison term to just three years for his role in the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The real qustion that must...
...persons in your office directly and indirectly quoted in the magazine article flout all these obligations," he said. "Grand jury secrecy rules are aimed at preventing precisely this kind of leak-and-smear damage." The Times article quoted several anonymous prosecutors as saying that former Whitewater partner James McDougal's cooperation led to new documents relating to Mrs. Clinton's legal work for McDougal's failed savings and loan and the "truthfulness of her statements" to federal investigators. The article also reported that Starr provided background assistance for the piece and that lawyers in his office made no attempt...