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...much more concerned about special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's out-of-control investigation than I am about President Bill Clinton's alleged out-of-control libido [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. I do not want to live in a country where "friends" are encouraged to rat on their pals, where body wires are used to gather information about someone else's sex life and where FBI agents bully naive people and rummage through their personal belongings. This is the stuff of totalitarian regimes. KAY VINSON Germantown, Tenn...
...citizen long a resident in Europe, I find it impossible to understand what has happened to the cherished American principles of justice and due process of law [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. The "independent" counsel has spent several years and $30 million investigating a two-bit real-estate deal and has extended the "investigation" to include the President's private life. Whether you like him or not, Clinton is a U.S. citizen and should be entitled to protection, not persecution, under the law. STERLING DOUGHTY Adliswil, Switzerland...
...First Lady's right-wing-conspiracy theory [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]: just because you're a little bit paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. RUDOLPH SCHARSCHMIDT Modesto, Calif...
Your article "Inside Starr and his Operation" [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9] said Starr's critics have taken to calling the grand-jury room "the Starr Chamber." It's interesting to note that a star chamber was a court that existed in Britain from the 15th century until 1641 and exercised wide jurisdiction under rules suited to the purposes of absolutist sovereigns. This court met in secret without a jury, used torture to force confessions and handed down severe judgments. Dictionaries define a star chamber as any tribunal or investigating body that is similarly unjust and inquisitorial. If the star chamber...
Your readers would be better served by the broader coverage that has made TIME the standard bearer for insightful reporting than by so many pages on this scandal [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. All of us can obtain gossip from the supermarket tabloids. Forget the sleaze. LEN BLAIR Hermiston...