Word: starr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before Starr and Ginsburg can get even that far, they must either make some peace or declare war. This is why they spent hours in front of a judge on Thursday trying to resolve the fate of an earlier immunity deal--and got nowhere. Ginsburg wants a full immunity blanket to protect his client from prosecution. Starr is playing very tough: far from being squeamish about prosecuting a 24-year-old, he may have to go to a criminal trial to get her to come clean...
Should she decide to cooperate with Starr, Lewinsky may still be an unwitting ally of Clinton's. Even if Monica testified to a torrid Oval Office affair, says a White House insider, her credibility is now so ragged that it would be subject to reasonable doubt. The most senior cynics see an advantage here in the curious behavior of her lawyer, William Ginsburg: change her story often enough, and she becomes useless to Starr's case. She says in private she had sex, denies it in her affidavit, admits it in her proffer and then backs away from that. Which...
...President, defense lawyers last week began to ask aloud whether Starr could, in his dreams, build anything better than a circumstantial case against him. The timing of the meetings and the headhunting and the subpoenas may look fishy, but if all parties deny any wicked intent, Starr can't do much with what's left. As one lawyer put it: "The President can say, 'I learned she was going to be a witness. I then asked Vernon to get her a job. But my purpose was not to affect her testimony.' The issue for Starr is going...
...Starr's fix bears a passing resemblance to that old game-theory staple, the prisoner's dilemma. In that game the suspects in a crime are isolated from one another and invited to cooperate. If they all stay quiet, they'll be O.K., but if anyone confesses, the others go to jail. Each prisoner then has to calculate his own odds by guessing at his accomplices' instincts for self-preservation...
...Clintons' marriage, which is once again a subject of national debate. Susan Stanton slaps her husband when she hears evidence of his infidelity, yanks her hand from his after feigning forgiveness during a TV interview, yet leads the rapid-response troops--just as Hillary directs the counterattack against Ken Starr. Meanwhile, the Clinton-hating American Spectator claims Hillary "looked shaken" when she heard Clinton had given Lewinsky Whitman's Leaves of Grass and quotes her saying, "He gave me the same book after our second date." What's fact and what's fiction? Are we reverberating...