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...Starr is moving forward without her. Last week he finally brought Lewinsky's Pentagon confidant, Linda Tripp, before the grand jury to begin to tell what she knows from a year of girl talk with her trusting protege. Prosecutors spent 14 hours questioning Tripp and never even got around to delving into the 20 hours of telephone conversations that Tripp secretly tape-recorded. That could be because Starr wants to establish carefully her credibility as a witness; it may also be because the tapes are less than conclusive on the question of obstruction. Late last week Tripp appeared likely...
...just when Starr was tightening the screws, a higher power intervened to take away his screwdriver. Last Wednesday a federal judge threw out a 10-count indictment against Webb Hubbell, charged with tax fraud in April, after Starr failed to get the former First Friend to assist him in the Arkansas phase of his investigation. Starr had leaned on Hubbell, who had already spent time in jail for bilking clients and partners at the Rose Law Firm, to give up anything he may know about Mrs. Clinton's legal work in questionable Arkansas real estate deals. He was her former...
Hubbell held his ground, charging that Starr had overstepped his authority and packed the indictment with information gathered under an immunity deal. In a stinging opinion, Judge James Robertson dismissed all 10 counts against Hubbell, saying Starr was on a "quintessential fishing expedition" and had ignored Hubbell's right against self-incrimination. Earlier Robertson had accused prosecutors of a "scary" reading of the Constitution...
Klayman, Kenneth Starr and co. can try all they want to curb Clinton's effectiveness, but the President is the Michael Jordan of politics: the more adversity he faces, the more he scores. His leadership has given the country its best time in decades, detractors notwithstanding. Go for it, Mr. President, and give us another slam dunk! LUCIEN LECOMTE Los Angeles...
...story "Starr's fellow traveler" [NATION, June 22] said that information about Linda Tripp's background, published in the New Yorker and obtained from the office of Pentagon public affairs chief Kenneth Bacon, had been released in violation of the federal Privacy Act. No government agency or other authority has determined that the Privacy Act was violated by this action. Some legal authorities maintain that the Freedom of Information Act could authorize or require the disclosure...