Word: starrs
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...White House has already invoked the separate notion of Executive privilege in an attempt to screen aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal from Starr. Extending a similar privilege to the Secret Service would be novel, says Burt Neuborne, former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, but not unreasonable. "It has all the hallmarks of other privileges, such as the marital and clergy privileges. Without it, you run the risk of injuring what is a tremendously important relationship." Not everybody is convinced. "The presidency comes with a lot of perks, but this one is just over the top," says...
...knows better than Kenneth Starr that obstruction of justice is difficult to prove. It's one thing to show that President Clinton's aides and friends worked like mad last winter to find a job for Monica Lewinsky. It's quite another to prove that they did so in return for her silence. And in between lies a prosecutor's worst nightmare: a purely circumstantial case...
...documents obtained by TIME in a related case help explain the independent counsel's dilemma, showing at once why Starr has some reason to suspect a White House campaign to keep Webb Hubbell quiet and why any such campaign turned out to be impossible to prove. It has been known for a long time that Clinton's closest associates worked behind the scenes in 1994 to find employment for Hubbell, one of the President's best pals. He had just resigned as Associate Attorney General amid allegations that he bilked clients and his law firm while a Little Rock partner...
...Starr has had a Washington grand jury looking at the same evidence for the past 18 months. Sources tell TIME that Hubbell is more likely to face tax-evasion charges in connection with the payments he received than an indictment for obstruction of justice. McLarty may have put together the network for Hubbell's "base" pay. But to prove obstruction, prosecutors have to establish illegal intent, such as buying silence. There's only one place to get such testimony, and so far all Hubbell's benefactors, including McLarty, say they were motivated only by a desire to help a friend...
...documents help explain one other thing: why Starr seized so quickly on allegations that Clinton and at least one of his friends involved in the Hubbell job hunt--Jordan--were working on Lewinsky's behalf. And why, given the frustrations of the case against Hubbell, Starr thought he might have finally hooked something bigger. Starr must conclude his grand jury inquiry into Arkansas matters next week, which is one reason why his team deposed Hillary Clinton for five hours on Saturday. Starr himself questioned the First Lady at the White House about a sham real estate deal called Castle Grande...