Word: prosecutors
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WASHINGTON: Is Ken Starr out of control? That's the contention of White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, who was called before the special prosecutor's 23-member grand jury Tuesday -- but fought against appearing right down to the last minute. "This subpoena is an assault on the First Amendment," Blumenthal, a former journalist, said Monday night. "I'm incensed, outraged." Not to mention peeved. A petulant Jo Marsh, Blumenthal's attorney, complained that Starr's people had dragged them down to the courthouse, only to keep them cooling their heels while they decided when her client would testify...
...Marsh argues that the Whitewater prosecutor is trying to "intimidate the press" in search of the source of damaging leaks about two Starr aides. She has a point; Starr's request is for "any and all documents referring to... any contact directly or indirectly with a member of the media which related or referred to the OIC or any staff members of the OIC." Quite a mouthful -- Marsh claims this subpoena is so open-ended it could even apply to Blumenthal's previous life as a reporter...
...with Japanese primary schoolchildren, old ladies blowing Piccolo Mini Cheer Horns and a crowd of Canadians crying, "Come on, button boy. Stop, baby, stop." Here was one place where an "in turn," as it happened, referred to "a rock filled with clockwise rotation," as opposed to, not a special prosecutor, but an "out turn." Nearby was a whole museum of curling--well, a couple of display cases, containing a signed brush, a 19th century crampit, a polishing machine and all 10 issues of the now defunct Japanese magazine Happy Curling...
...moon had exploded, the stock market had crashed and Saddam Hussein had assassinated Castro and kidnapped the Pope, nobody would be aware of it. The domination of the news by the Clinton scandal was total. Maybe special prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Lewinsky's pal Linda Tripp will finally satisfy Americans' insatiable thirst for titillation and dirt. The name Tripp will surely live in infamy and replace Brutus as the archetypal betrayer. NORMAN GRONWOLD Norcross, Minn...
...President and quoted as saying she has lied her entire life; an ex-White House secretary who makes a habit of "befriending" women who claim to have had intimate encounters with the President; a political spy turned tell-all literary agent who counsels the secretary; and a special prosecutor who arranges for undercover taping of the intern's private conversations about her sex life because they might have some bearing on his investigations. Is there anyone with integrity in Washington? JEANNIE WURZ Bern, Switzerland...