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...Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Dar es Salaam, Scott MacLeod/Paris, Clive Mutiso/Nairobi and Elaine Shannon and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Starr's guilt as to the leaks are already something of an open secret in Washington. "They're blatant," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, "But he's already offending everybody from prosecutors to the public. Any attack on him now would only give him the moral high ground." Certainly Reno, though she could technically fire Starr if a leaks verdict reflected "moral turpitude," is too embroiled in her conflict-of-interest fight with Dan Burton to ever discipline Starr. As for the White House, the time for spinning against Starr is over; now it's keep quiet and cross...
...Holder, says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, is one of Janet Reno's staunchest defenders. "Holder's a Republican, but he's stood with Reno through all this. When [task force head Charles] LaBella was insisting on an independent counsel, Holder argued that Justice was able to do the job itself. He abhors independent counsels as much as Reno." Burton and Reno may yet come up with a compromise. But Reno has said she simply wants three more weeks to review LaBella's memo before she makes a decision. Far be it for Burton to shy away from a scrap...
WASHINGTON: After nearly a week with the evidence, the FBI likely knows by now whether the stain on Monica's bedeviling blue dress is DNA or something considerably less organic, like Reddi-Whip -- and that means Ken Starr probably knows too. TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says this is one tidbit that Ken Starr's suspiciously leak-prone operation won't be disseminating. "A secret like this will be hard to keep, but this time he's going to try his best," she says. "He wants to wait until after Clinton testifies, and surprise...
...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says that the other dress -- indeed, dresses -- was no canard. A slew of them, including the black one, was packed up by prosecutors after that first unfruitful closet search. (The blue dress, you'll recall, had been stashed at Monica's mother's.) And several did have suspicious-looking stains on the front, which were subsequently tested by the FBI. The result, says Shannon, was anticlimactic: "Apparently, Monica was a sloppy eater." So it seems Monica's wardrobe could lead in two directions: to the White House or the Golden Arches...