Word: starr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monica and Bill required the country to get used to the very idea that the President of the United States might have fooled around with an intern and then tried to hush her up, the second installment dared us to trust him. The first week was an All-Starr game, in which a crusading prosecutor, after 3 1/2 frustrating years of sniffing through sour Arkansas land deals, suddenly swooped down on the White House, subpoenas in hand, FBI agents in tow, asserting his right to ask just about anyone just about anything that had to do with the President...
...scandal broke, Clinton achieved the highest approval ratings of his five-year presidency. That may have been a miracle, but it was no accident: Americans are less puritanical and more forgiving than the cartoon version suggests, and this President is never better than in his worst moments. Starr meanwhile was left trying to build a case around a single witness who was neither entirely cooperative nor totally credible, whose own lawyer admitted she was given to exaggeration, who a source said tried to bribe another witness, and who described herself as a lifelong liar. The story of how Clinton came...
...Clearly the move was intended to plug the daily leaks that threaten to wash the President out of office. Indeed, the morning news cycle was dominated by an account of a potentially damaging statement that Clinton secretary Betty Currie gave to Starr's investigators. The story was broken by the New York Times and attributed to those ubiquitous "lawyers familiar with the investigation." For the President, the report added unwanted drama to a morning press conference with his new best friend, British prime minister Tony Blair. "I never asked anybody to do anything but tell the truth," he said, adding...
...clearly the administration realized that greater countermeasures than that were needed. "I intend to seek judicial relief from these tactics, including contempt sanctions, as soon as practicable," Kendall wrote in the letter to Starr, which came just hours after the President complained that information was "leaking unlawfully" from the investigation. Clinton stopped just short of accusing Starr's office; that's a job for the hit men. Now Kendall has fired the first shot...
...White House Plumbing With water, water everywhere, the White House wants to plug those leaks: Clinton's legal attack team is taking Ken Starr to court. Clinton Cool Under Fire Starr Still Searching for Clinton Paramours Executive Privilege: Just a Stall Tactic...