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...defiant Kenneth W. Starr last night defended his five-year tenure as independent counsel, sharply and sometimes sarcastically reproving student questioners who criticized his investigation...
...Starr sharply accused the Clinton Justice Department of hindering his own attempt to probe whether his prosecutors leaked information to the media...
Also elected were two MIT undergraduates, Fred Fagerstrom and Andrew M. Starr, and one MIT graduate student, Steven Keller...
Such efforts helped make Starr's name a popular watchword for prosecutorial excess. But as Schmidt and Weisskopf make plain, Starr bears blame as well. His rigidity and self-righteousness compounded his native ineptitude in public relations. He was unable to resolve quickly the intra-office battles among the factions that split his staff. Inherently overcautious, he and his team let prosecutorial opportunities slip by at key moments, most notably in their failure to gain Lewinsky's cooperation as the scandal broke...
...most unsettling of the book's revelations is in the epilogue. Weisskopf and Schmidt show that even before Starr left, his aides drafted a prosecution memo and sample indictment of Clinton and last October began practicing arguments to make their case. Starr's successor, Robert Ray, has recently said he is considering pursuing that indictment of the President after he leaves office. There will be room, no doubt, for many more revisions of the Lewinsky story...