Word: starrs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...negative can be dangerous. The easiest way for a candidate with serious character flaws to neutralize them is to have an opponent point them out. Bill Bradley began his descent when he called Al Gore a liar. And Hillary began her rise in the polls when dark forces--Ken Starr, the Congress, the vast right-wing conspiracy--aligned against...
...unlikable Bakaly a fall guy for a sinister independent counsel, trapped by a McCurry-like ignorance of the dirty dealing going on behind his back? Or are Bakaly and Starr both blameless, betrayed by a leaky staffer? Maybe everybody's lying - in those heady days of scandal management, press manipulation (and re-manipulation) was certainly par for the course...
...Starr is under the judicial microscope again, at least by proxy. Starr's old spokesman from the Monicagate days, Charles Bakaly, will be in the criminal dock starting July 13 for denying alleged leaks from Starr's office during the independent counsel's 1999 investigation into all things President Clinton, according to court documents released late Thursday. Here's the hot quote, uttered on national TV by Bakaly after The New York Times, citing sources, reported on July 31, 1999, that Starr had concluded the President could legally be indicted while still in office...
...White House, of course, had long scoffed at that, accusing Starr of leaking anything and everything in order to jolt the press into keeping his Clinton hunt politically viable. Starr also vehemently denied responsibility for the leaks, and later turned the legal lamplight on Bakaly himself, referring him to the Justice Department for investigation. Bakaly resigned soon after...
According to Drudge's copy of the manuscript, Clinton's inquisitors included "at least six gays." Literary agent Lucianne Goldberg was branded a "fag hag," Ken Starr "effeminate," and the love life of political pundit Anne Coulter was also delved into. "I was never outing anybody," counters Connolly. He says a disgruntled former assistant added the salacious material to the manuscript before leaking...