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This past Thursday, Independent Prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr spent 12 hours testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. After a lengthy opening statement, which reiterated the charges against the President laid out in Starr's written referral to Congress, the embattled prosecutor faced a marathon interrogation at the hands of the committee members...
Republicans on the committee ought to be ashamed for their seemingly unconditional support of Starr. While many of the accusations hurled at him over the months are perhaps unfair, his behavior is deserving of critical scrutiny. Hopefully, the recent resignation of Starr's ethics adviser Samuel Dash, will serve as a reminder to Republicans that as much as they'd like to bring down the President, Starr's investigation is not without flaws...
...behavior of Democrats on the committee has been equally disappointing. They have conducted themselves rudely and immaturely. Most distressingly, they have not a made a single attempt to argue the substantive merits of Starr's charges...
Questioning Starr's tactics is one thing, resorting solely to character assassination is another. If Democrats would argue that the President's crimes don't warrant impeachment, at least when this whole mess is over perhaps we would be left with a better understanding of our Constitution...
Careful readers of Kenneth Starr's impeachment report to Congress will note that on Feb. 19, 1996, Alfie called President Clinton while the President was closeted with Monica Lewinsky in an emotional meeting in the Oval Office. After breaking the news that "their intimate relationship" would have to end--temporarily, as it turned out--the President returned Fanjul's call; Lewinsky left. The two spoke for 22 minutes. The topic: a proposed tax on sugar farmers to pay for the Everglades cleanup. Fanjul reportedly told the President he and other growers opposed such a step, since it would cost them...