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WASHINGTON: Give Ken Starr an inch and, well, you know the rest by now. According to CNN, the prosecutor is no longer satisfied with the imminent testimony of two uniformed Secret Service agents on White House detail who are thought to have knowledge of their protectee?s alleged Oval Office trysts. Starr has subpoenaed the chief of President Clinton's elite plainclothes security detail ?- the one in which men are expected to take a bullet for their boss ?- and seems intent on giving the Secret Service all the moral high ground it needs to drive his own approval ratings right...
...that Starr ever cared about his popularity -? to him, the legal battles are the ones that matter, and he will likely win this one as well. An immediate Justice Department appeal will probably delay Special Agent Larry Cockell?s trip to the stand -- which Starr has set for Thursday -- until sometime in the fall, when the battle over "Secret Service privilege" ends in the Supreme Court. In a nation that still remembers the Kennedy assassination, Starr would seem to need an unlimited supply of gall to subpoena a standing President?s last line of protection, especially before he?s heard...
...Meanwhile, Congress, charged with creating any such privilege by the appeals court?s last decision, is coming to the President?s rescue ?- and just not this President?s. Starr-friendly Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch promised Sunday to "do everything I can to cooperate with the Secret Service" and hold hearings to "see what can be done next year" to craft a bill to satisfy both protective and investigative concerns. But of course, for Bill Clinton, next year will be a year too late...
...STARR Judge finds his take on the Fifth Amendment flawed. Not helpful to cutting a deal with Monica...
...Faircloth used his seat on the Senate Banking Committee to accuse Hillary Clinton of having "lied." In the fight over health-care reform, he was one of the most vinegary opponents of the Clinton plan--or Hillary Care, as he liked to call it. And just days before Kenneth Starr was named Whitewater independent counsel in 1994, Faircloth and Helms famously lunched with Federal Appeals Court judge David Sentelle, who headed the three-judge panel that chose Starr. Though Faircloth insists they weren't conferring about Starr, Clinton's friends suspect otherwise...