Word: starr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr will be less concerned with Linda Tripp's testimony Tuesday than with how Monica Lewinsky's attorneys respond to it. After all, Tripp has spent more than 100 hours with Starr's team preparing her testimony, and her grand jury appearance is calculated to put the squeeze on his most reluctant witness -- Lewinsky...
...provides an opportunity to fight back against the vilification she claims to have suffered over her taped conversations with Lewinsky. But the White House spin machine appears ready to roll, with White House aide Sydney Blumenthal in the New York Times recounting some of the questions he faced from Starr's prosecutors in an effort to paint the investigation as a coy probe of the President's libido. But beyond getting his witnesses to elaborate on the definitions of what constitutes a sexual act, Starr's eyes are fixed on the prize: testimony from Lewinsky about a presidential cover...
...Maybe Starr wouldn't have tried the case anyway," my wife said. "Maybe he would have turned it over to one of those deputies who've been prosecutors, the ones the White House is always accusing of having threatened suspects' grandmothers with electric-shock treatments...
...would have been Starr vs. Ginsburg all right. I can still picture the scene in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's courtroom. The judge has just admonished Starr for repeated, irrelevant citings of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Ginsburg is sneering, although he too has had to be told by Judge Johnson that the Marina del Rey tummy-tuck suit he keeps leaning on as a precedent is not germane in federal criminal cases. In the back row, a couple of criminal defense attorneys who specialize in defending drunk drivers and barroom brawlers are attempting unsuccessfully to suppress giggles...
...Starr will turn up the heat on Monica Lewinsky Tuesday when he puts Linda Tripp on the stand. With negotiations deadlocked between Lewinsky's attorneys and Starr's investigation over what the intern would be prepared to concede in her testimony, getting Tripp's testimony on record is a way of boxing in Lewinsky, says TIME Correspondent Eric Pooley. Lewinsky's lawyers have reportedly repeated the offer that she would testify to an affair but not to a cover-up, but that hasn't been enough to persuade Starr to offer immunity. Putting Tripp in the stand - even...