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...there was ever any doubt that Ken Starr's daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee would not be an edifying experience for the nation, Michael Moore's presence in the room erased it. Moore, who makes a living satirizing the pompous and the hypocritical in films and on television, arrived last Thursday at the Rayburn House office building on Capitol Hill, site of the solemn Watergate impeachment hearings of 24 years ago, wearing a bright green baseball cap and trailing a cameraman. He was there to collect footage for his new cable-TV show, appropriately titled The Awful Truth...
WASHINGTON: While impeachment articles against President Clinton are being drafted, there seems to be some dispute in the investigation that brought them about. Ken Starr and his deputies had slightly different stories to tell when they finally hit what Starr had earlier derided as "the talk-show circuit" Wednesday. Asked about the first, crucial hours when his office held Monica Lewinsky without an attorney, the independent counsel told ABC's Diane Sawyer "it was fair and right to go to someone who is in the midst of a very serious thing." But Starr deputy Robert Bittman said his boss...
...Bittman would not elaborate further. But it was a bad time to raise even the slightest of doubts about the methods of Starr's investigators, as Republican staffers on the House Judiciary Committee are earnestly scribbling away at three articles of impeachment ? for perjury, obstruction of justice and witness tampering. A bad time, because only one of those articles (perjury) has even the slightest chance of squeaking through on a House floor vote next month. And further down the road, the independent counsel statute itself is up for renewal. Already, lawmakers are suggesting that in the wake of Starr...
...Starr, of course, handed in his homework -- boxes and boxes of the stuff -- months ago. The independent counsel, who answered well in excess of 81 questions before the committee last Thursday, got a few more from ABC's Diane Sawyer in an interview to be screened Wednesday night. What does he really think of Clinton? "Extraordinarily talented," said Starr. "Wonderfully empathetic... he inspires just tremendous affection and loyalty." All of which earns the prosecutor top marks for magnanimity -- although it's probably a good thing that he wasn't under oath at the time...
WASHINGTON: The fishing expedition is under way. House Judiciary Committee members have begun hearing from witnesses in the Kathleen Willey affair, a matter so nebulous that even Ken Starr did not make impeachment charges out of it. Willey's lawyer, Daniel Gecker, went in front of a closed-door session of the committee Monday and left without comment. Up next: Nathan Landow, the Democratic donor and landowner, will be probed on whether President Clinton asked him to influence Willey's testimony. When he appeared before Starr's grand jury, Landow invoked the Fifth Amendment. Whether 37 politicians can succeed...