Word: starr
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...headline on your story on independent counsel Kenneth Starr asked, "Has Starr Gone Too Far?" [NATION, July 7]. It should have asked, "Have the Clintons Gone Too Far?" It is because of innumerable delays, subpoenas, stonewalling and an appeal to the Supreme Court that this investigation has gone on and on. Starr is doing a great job. Just leave him alone! JESSIE G. DEMASSA Huntington Beach, Calif...
Some of the questions posed to the troopers--such as whether they witnessed Clinton having sex--were meant to test the troopers' credibility, Starr associates say. There's ample reason to doubt the officers. Two of the troopers admitted lying about a car accident. And in an affidavit obtained by TIME, trooper Ronald Anderson says three of his colleagues were given a contract by Arkansas lawyer Cliff Jackson guaranteeing them jobs paying $100,000 annually for seven years in return for making allegations in December 1993 that they arranged and covered up Clinton dalliances. Jackson, a longtime Clinton opponent, denies...
Equally troubling is another set of questions allegedly posed by Starr's staff this spring--to Bob Hattoy, who once worked in the Clinton White House and is now an official at Interior. Hattoy told George magazine that Starr's agents asked if it had been his job "to place homosexuals in the highest levels of government." Starr's office declined to comment...
...legitimate line of inquiry opened last week when the Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court decision granting Starr the right to see notes that White House lawyers took of their conversations with Hillary Rodham Clinton. No lawyer-client privilege exists between government attorneys and officials, the court said, so the White House gave Starr the notes he sought: five pages about the First Lady's account of her actions after Foster's suicide, a dozen pages scribbled by lawyer Jane Sherburne during breaks in Hillary's January 1996 grand jury appearance. Starr is looking for evidence that...
What's left for Starr? He continues his probe of Hubbell, who left the Justice Department en route to jail in 1994 but detoured into work for a host of companies friendly to the Democratic Party. Starr has just hired three seasoned prosecutors, in part because he needs the benefit of their judgment as the probe wraps up. His court victory this week could be viewed as a renewed fishing license--allowing him to subpoena notes and depose White House lawyers--but that would be a mistake. After last week, even Starr must know that time is running...