Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...G.O.P. is also mindful that its Christian conservative base will not be happy. That's why House Republicans last week looked like Michael Jackson doing the moonwalk--imitating forward movement toward impeachment while in reality backing away. Though Hyde said right after the election that Starr would be his committee's sole major witness, committee aides were suggesting he may call others, including presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey...
...that might mollify conservatives. But under this scenario, Democrats would insist on calling more witnesses too, a move that, if blocked by Republicans, would make G.O.P. members look more partisan. Hyde has already invited that criticism by reportedly suggesting last week that he would consider blocking Democrats from questioning Starr on sore points in the conduct of his own investigation, like whether his office illegally denied Lewinsky access to her lawyer...
Democrats who are eagerly waiting their chance to stick a fork into Ken Starr this week should be wary: the independent counsel has no place to go but up. Yes, the star witness at impeachment hearings will be forced to account for every questionable turn in his investigation of Monica Lewinsky. But Starr, often caricatured as a pious partisan out to ruin Bill Clinton at any cost, comes well trained for the contest...
...arena Starr enters Thursday is nothing like the well-mannered setting of the courtroom. The hearing could look more like a World Wrestling Federation match, a forum where Starr's words could be drowned out by jousting between, say, Barney Frank, Democratic maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions...
Democrats will try to keep Starr off balance by challenging the process rather than the findings of his investigation. Charges of illegal grand-jury leaks, which are currently under investigation by a court-appointed special master, are sure to come up. So are questions about his handling of witnesses, from the unusually high number of times (more than five, for some) that they were asked to appear before the grand jury to Starr's scouring of their private lives. The story of Julie Hiatt Steele, a peripheral figure in the case, may be aired. She has contradicted parts...