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No one knows better than Kenneth Starr that obstruction of justice is difficult to prove. It's one thing to show that President Clinton's aides and friends worked like mad last winter to find a job for Monica Lewinsky. It's quite another to prove that they did so...
But all those who said it was now likely that Starr would just shrivel up and go away don't understand the man or his four-year mission. While the Jones matter rested on her word against the President's, Starr is armed with tape-recorded assertions by Lewinsky that...
There was, conspicuously, no mention of perjury. Starr knows that lying about sex is not the stuff of impeachment proceedings. He is more intent on compiling evidence of obstruction: the possibility that Clinton coached secretary Betty Currie on key details of his relationship with Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan's extraordinary job...
Malodorous as all this may be, it is not likely to add up to a case. Even if Tucker had damaging stories to tell about Hillary's role in the project, the First Lady cannot be prosecuted today for what she did in the mid-1980s because the federal statute...
Starr has always known that to make a credible case against Clinton he must go beyond sex to prove a pattern of obstruction. Sources tell TIME that the prosecutor appears to be close to wrapping up just such a case and reporting it to Congress. "Starr has enough to send...