Word: starrs
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...battle over campaign-finance reform, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell--the reform bill's chief opponent--has long been cast as a villain by the media. And when a media villain needs a lawyer, who better than Ken Starr? Just 24 hours after the bill finally passed, McConnell introduced a legal dream team led by the former special counsel. It will ask the Supreme Court to kill the new law. Senators John McCain and Russ Feingold always knew this would happen if their bill passed. The congressional fight was just a prelude to the main event: asking nine Justices to decide...
...since Bush v. Gore have so many constitutional lawyers jumped on a case. First Amendment liberal Floyd Abrams has joined Starr. McCain and Feingold are assembling their own impressive team to help U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson defend the law. Sources say former Clinton Solicitor General Seth Waxman will lead lawyers from Common Cause, Democracy 21 and other reform groups...
Klein brings no information of the forehead-slapping sort about what went on between the Clintons during the Monica debacle. Several days before special prosecutor Ken Starr was due at the White House to take the testimony that would give Bartlett's one of its quotes, Hillary still didn't know that Starr had the goods on her husband. Did Clinton ever own up to her face-to-face, admit there was a stained blue dress? Klein raises the question whether Hillary's coldness was faked to make people think she was normal or whether she is normal and actually...
...been only a few years since the one major news story was the relationship between President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky. Trysts at the Oval Office, the cigar, the Starr Report and millions of dollars spent on uncovering the most personal details of a presidents’ life were not the most productive uses of our government’s, the media’s or, frankly, our own time...
...torture acceptable in the fight against terrorism? It has been reported that former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has asked the question aloud while speculating that as many as five U.S. Supreme Court justices would find torture constitutional in certain circumstances. No forceful denials by any justice have been heard publicly. Bruce Hoffman, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, asks the torture question aloud in the January edition of the Atlantic Monthly, citing a movie about French tactics in Algeria and tactics used in Sri Lanka. President George W. Bush has formulated a new military tribunal to try terrorists that...