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...owner of a Memphis diner and, one presumes, space aliens. Talk about a no-win situation. If Reno decides the allegations merit creation of the new "truth" commission the family wants, she is giving credence to outlandish conspiracy theories. If she concludes there is no cause for a new probe, she is sure to be painted as part of a cover-up. Either outcome would be a mess and tragically unnecessary...
...Starr, investigate thyself. That was the tricky spot the independent counsel found himself in last week after Deputy Attorney General ERIC HOLDER told Starr to probe charges that one of his main Whitewater witnesses took money originating with billionaire Clinton hater RICHARD SCAIFE. Happy to point out the awkwardness of this situation was presidential lawyer DAVID KENDALL. In a five-page letter, obtained by TIME, Kendall explained why Starr is the wrong man to investigate DAVID HALE, who has accused the President of wrongdoing. Not only has Starr relied heavily on Hale's testimony, Kendall notes...
...case never depended on Jones', and the collapse of the civil case would do nothing to his criminal case. The White House machinists, he said, were trying to use the Wright ruling to spin a false sense of vindication. He plans to press forward with his probe into whether Clinton lied under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and tried to cover it up. But it said much about his team's p.r. problems that even before the Wright decision came down, Starr had reached out to Stuart Taylor, the lawyer and journalist who had legitimized the Jones case...
...orphaned "talking points" Lewinsky allegedly handed Linda Tripp, asking her to lie in her deposition. Starr hopes to make obstruction the heart of his report to Congress, not only because it is a grave offense. It is a common thread in other parts of his far-flung probe of alleged hush money to Webster Hubbell, the sacking of the White House travel-office staff and the disappearance of Hillary's billing records in a Whitewater-related case...
...means he would be investigating both his chief witness, Hale, and his own likely future benefactor, Scaife, who is partially funding two Pepperdine University deanships that Starr is supposed to settle into after Whitewater. If Justice handles the investigation, Reno could appear to be trying to undercut Starr's probe of her boss, the President. She may opt instead to ask a federal judge to direct a probe into the crucial question: If Hale is the key to Whitewater, has somebody been turning...