Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr, investigate thyself. That was the tricky spot the independent counsel found himself in last week after Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told Starr to probe charges that one of his main Whitewater witnesses took money originating from billionaire Clinton hater Richard Scaife. Happy to point out the awkwardness of this situation was presidential lawyer David Kendall. In a five-page letter, obtained by TIME, Kendall explained why Starr is the wrong man to investigate David Hale, who has accused the President of wrongdoing. Not only has Starr relied heavily on Hale?s testimony, Kendall notes...
WASHINGTON: Ken Starr?s investigation has sprung another leak, and this time it?s a big one. Gushing out of the independent counsel?s office comes the news -- reported first in the Washington Post -- that large chunks of Starr?s report to the House are already written. Which makes for possible impeachment proceedings as early...
...What is Starr waiting for? Apparently, only the pending court decision on whether Monica Lewinsky gets immunity. Then the charges of presidential perjury in both Lewinsky and Whitewater affairs will make their way to the Hill, with all the speediness that the OIC law requires. One drawback for Starr: If he?s writing a quick-and-dirty report, many recently unearthed Whitewater memos may be passed over...
...White House counterattack: As the scribe of the right-wing conspiracy, Starr is in cahoots with Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey. ?At the rate we?re going,? said Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel, ?I would not be surprised if the Speaker and majority leader are being e-mailed each chapter from the office of the independent counsel.? And Matt Drudge would be CC-ed on those messages, no doubt...
...coming days to depose presidential pal Webster Hubbell on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition Burton will focus on payments to Hubbell by figures in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal, such as the Riadys of Indonesia, whose...