Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions in a place where judicial precedents don't count...
...investigator: All questions must be restricted to his impeachment referral. But with spectacularly bad timing, Starr has dropped hints that he plans to step outside those bounds. His speech, aides told the New York Times, will roam beyond the Lewinsky matter before the House into areas where the prosecutor has provided no evidence: Whitewater, Travelgate and Filegate...
WASHINGTON: Call it the Arlen Specter solution. As the impeachment process begins to collapse for want of GOP support, the Republican senator (and former prosecutor) from Pennsylvania is trying to convince his colleagues that presidential punishment, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Specter's plan: Wait until Bill Clinton leaves office in 2001, then prosecute him as a regular citizen for perjury and obstruction of justice -? presuming, of course, that Clinton's successor does not pardon him first. If the GOP can just cool its heels, Specter says, a jail sentence for the President is "a distinct possibility...
...nothing interferes with the probable course of events, the President may well go on exploiting the power of his position until he engineers his own downfall. It is characteristic of his psychological state that Clinton has shifted a large part of the blame to the special prosecutor instead of squarely shouldering responsibility for his actions. Someone with Starr's tenacity was needed to bring the truth to light. Whether or not we like Starr personally is beside the point. He is only the messenger, bearing news that none of us wants to hear. JANET O. DALLETT Port Townsend, Wash...
...think most people were really surprised athow far a prosecutor can go in delving into theprivate lives of people," he says...