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Those who read on will be forced to make judgments. Of Starr, some have already concluded that he was carrying out his sworn duty in the face of a conspiracy to stop him; others argue all he proved in the end was his own willingness to humiliate the President and horrify the public with a report so gratuitously detailed and pornographic that it warranted warning stickers and a plain brown wrapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Starr's long journey down the dirt road takes the reader past things most would rather not see, to places they would rather not go. The most shocking aspect of the report was the sheer quantity and raw quality of sexual detail. Starr's grand jurors received this evidence drop by drop, day by day; last week it came in a torrent over the wires in an instant, flooding the circuits of conscience and calculation and taste. Starr takes readers through the entire history of Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky, from their first flirtations during the government shutdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Lewinsky's testimony, included oral sex, oral-anal sex, phone sex and much mutual groping--through phone calls, or in hallways, on Easter Sunday, while Hillary was out of town--a catalog aimed at demolishing Clinton's claim that his sworn denial of sexual relations was "legally accurate." Starr's version left members of Congress expressing a desire to take a shower after they read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...volume of sexual detail represents an enormous danger to the White House; everything whispered, rumored and wondered about this story now goes directly into the public consciousness about Clinton. He is immune to filters now. And so the details themselves needed to be turned into a weapon against Starr, which is exactly what presidential advisers began to do even before his report was released. White House aides charged that Starr had gone way too far in including so much embarrassing detail, all designed to do nothing less than force the President from office one way or another. Including all those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Starr, in turn, has had his response to this charge ready and waiting for weeks: the President's evasive testimony made the detail essential to proving the case for perjury. Though the President promised at his Friday-morning prayer breakfast not to hide behind legalisms, that is precisely what his lawyers put forward at a news conference that very afternoon, when they tried to argue--once again--that lying did not necessarily constitute perjury. Monica's recollections of their activities would clearly fall under the definition of sexual relations, which the President denied having in his deposition for the Paula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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