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...that Hillary Rodham Clinton once said was out to get her husband can be a little hard to pin down. But among the President's defenders, one basic diagram goes this way: at the center is what they call the iron triangle, an illicit cooperation between independent counsel Kenneth Starr and the lawyers for Paula Jones. At the hypotenuse is Linda Tripp, the go-between who first alerted Starr to Monica Lewinsky's false affidavit in the Jones case. Around this triangle is a circle, a group of loosely affiliated Clinton haters who fostered ties among the inner threesome, always...
...evidence that supports this map of the world is suggestive but still mostly circumstantial. For instance, in January, on the night before Clinton's deposition in the Jones case, and just after Tripp lured Lewinsky into Starr's ambush, Tripp met with the Jones attorneys, thus putting them in a position to hit Clinton with questions about Lewinsky. And more than a year ago, Arkansas state troopers reported that Starr's Arkansas team was asking them about Clinton's relationship with Jones. Then there is the omnipresent billionaire and funder of anti-Clinton investigations, Richard Mellon Scaife, whose alleged interference...
Last week the circumstantial evidence became a bit more suggestive. In his report to Congress, Starr insists he first learned about the relationship between Clinton and Lewinsky when Tripp contacted his office on Jan. 12. The story Tripp told that day--and especially the parts about Vernon Jordan's job search for Lewinsky, with its hints that Clinton was trying to buy her silence--became the basis for Starr's successful request that Attorney General Janet Reno allow him to investigate the Lewinsky matter. But according to an Oct. 4 article in the New York Times, word about the Clinton...
...early heads-up, which came four days before Tripp herself called Starr's deputy Jackie Bennett, would have allowed Starr more time to craft his strategy to get jurisdiction over the Lewinsky angle. And it also would have lengthened the period in which Starr was looking into the Jones case without first receiving permission from Reno, a serious problem given the Independent Counsel Act's tough rules against free-lance investigating. Starr's spokesman Charles Bakaly denies that the office began probing before Tripp called. But last week David Kendall, the President's private attorney, sent a letter to Reno...
...recent issue of Entertainment Weekly, a book reviewer found the Starr report to be not just a pulp page turner but a haunting allegory. The report symbolizes "the national invasion of our privacy." The moral of its story: what happened to President Clinton "could happen to any of us--our own sex lives on newsstands everywhere...