Word: starrs
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...issue is whether the Starr report and Clinton testimony tapes constitute "valid" material for classroom discussion. But the larger and more significant implication of the case is whether the classroom is a place where information can be freely exchanged, debated and understood...
...even now, Smaltz's performance--on top of Kenneth Starr's--has changed the dynamic at Janet Reno's Justice Department. Officials there tell TIME that her reluctance to call for counsels to look into Vice President Al Gore, former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes and the President in connection with the campaign-finance mess comes in part from seeing what other prosecutors have done...
...Walsh was the first independent counsel to conduct a wide-ranging and costly ($47 million) investigation. It resulted in seven guilty pleas and four convictions (two were overturned, and George Bush pardoned six of the targets). There has been grumbling about various probes since Walsh's, but only Starr's ever expanding Whitewater investigation, which is likely to exceed the cost of Walsh's inquiry, has been so castigated...
Still, while Starr and his investigation are better known, it is Smaltz who is cited as the best example of the statute's weaknesses by those who closely follow the law. In September 1994 he was assigned to investigate whether Espy, the first black to hold the job of Agriculture Secretary, illegally accepted gifts--luggage, sports tickets, entertainment--from people and agribusinesses he regulated. Smaltz was almost immediately criticized for his freewheeling tactics. His team asked former friends and employees of chicken king Don Tyson whether they knew of any hookers or homosexual activity at events that took place long...
DATE September 1998 RUMOR Ken Starr blasted "public pornography" on 60 Minutes back in 1987 EFFECT CBS had to refute: Starr never appeared on show...