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...whose cases ended in mistrials earlier this year. Though the cases were different -- McDougal was accused of keeping mum about the Clintons? Arkansas business dealings and Steele was accused of lying about the Kathleen Willey case -- "both made Starr appear to be overzealous," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "McDougal made him look that way for being prosecuted over and over, and Steele for being pursued even though she was such a peripheral figure...
...easy enough to find harbingers of the Quincy episode in the early coverage of President Dole's candidacy. In April 1999, for instance, Robert Novak reported that officials of the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association, whose meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Mrs. Dole had addressed, were informed in advance that in the question-and-answer session following the speech she would provide not only the answers but also the questions--a procedure the White House press corps has so far been unwilling to embrace...
...court decided that publishing or broadcasting pictures of people in their own homes without their consent is a serious invasion of privacy," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. The problem is compounded by the fact that "some of the people caught on film may not even be accused of a crime," she adds. A subsequent case is likely to decide whether the media itself can be sued for such activity, though issues posed by the First Amendment right of free speech could result in a different outcome for journalists...
...Starr's prosecutors mentioned Bill Clinton 37 times in their opening statements at the trial of Julie Hiatt Steele. Then alleged presidential gropee Kathleen Willey took the stand. "His hands were all over me," she said -- and who can't imagine that? -- but TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak doesn't see the President's fingerprints anywhere else in this case. "You're supposed to get the feeling that the President's on trial here," she says. "But Starr has really yet to give people a compelling reason why he's even trying this case." Can he nail Clinton, who denied...
...when Newsweek wanted her to corroborate Willey's story. Willey says she confided in Steele not only hours afterward, in November 1993, but repeatedly throughout the years following. Steele, Willey testified Wednesday, "wanted to be very much into this story" and "wanted to make money off of it." Novak says Willey's credibility has some big bruises -- she's even lied to the independent counsel -- but Starr's biggest hurdle isn't establishing that Steele is lying. It's establishing why anyone outside the jury box should care...