Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senate Republicans by concluding there was no basis for a criminal investigation into the president's failed real estate venture, with a largely unknown judge with no prosecutorial experience. Before he would come to the same conclusion as Fiske four and a half years later, this man, Kenneth W. Starr, came to embody everything that is wrong with the independent counsel...
...process for selecting independent counsels must also be changed to prevent obvious partisans like Starr from conducting investigations of political opponents. Starr's connections to anti-Clinton groups and individuals--the tobacco industry and Richard Mellon Scaife, for example--should have immediately precluded him from...
Congress must also explicitly define the role of the independent counsel in impeachment proceedings. When evidence of possibly impeachable offenses surfaced last January, Starr conducted the investigations himself, instead of turning it over to Congress, as the independent counsel law requires. In the future, investigations that may lead to the national trauma of impeachment should be entrusted to the House...
...independent counsel's office--like the presidency--should not be judged entirely on the people who hold it. Though Ken Starr's conduct has been outrageous, entirely scrapping the law he abused is no solution...
...result of Starr's conduct during his investigation, it seems clear that Congress will not renew the law this year without substantial revisions. The most urgent flaw of the current statute is that the independent counsel, though himself appointed to oversee and investigate public officials, has no oversight himself. There was no one to monitor him as he spent more than $40 million on his campaign...