Word: starrs
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WASHINGTON: Bad news for the White House: Ken Starr thinks he's Joe Friday. "I've always been a big believer in that show... that Jack Webb was in, 'Just the facts ma'am,'" Starr said Thursday. He was happy to use the recent Paula furor to burrow deeper into the role he relishes: That of the tenacious policeman on the trail...
...Starr lives on," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "He was never going to charge Clinton -- that's not his job. His job is to send a report to the Hill." Whether or not Republicans can muster the political will to take on Clinton is not Starr's problem, and the shrinking legal target (without Paula Jones, perjury in a weak civil case is now perjury in a nonexistent one) isn't either...
...same goes for Starr's approval ratings, which were already abysmal -- and will surely sink further now that the White House has gleefully renewed calls for the independent counsel to close up shop. What does Starr care? He's not a politician -- he's just...
...Second, a New York Times report says White House lawyers are waging a clandestine court battle over executive privilege -- invoking it not just in Clinton's name, but in Hillary's and Bruce Lindsey's too. The upshot: Starr looks like a profligate, and Clinton looks like he's doing some major stonewalling. Nobody wins...
...been filed, and that it's further proof that the right-wingers are out to get him. "The White House is going to redouble its defense that a meritless case was pursued purely to harass and embarrass him," says Branegan. "And they'll apply that spin directly to Ken Starr...