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Monica Lewinsky's lawyers threw Ken Starr a bone yesterday in the continued negotiations over her testimony: access to Lewinsky's bedside table -- or at least the list of books on it. According to reports, the ex-intern's attorneys are pressing for Starr to allow her to testify that she did indeed have a sexual affair with President Clinton. But no, she was not instructed to lie about it. Lewinsky's attorneys resolved a dispute between a Washington, D.C., bookstore and investigators by agreeing to release information on her purchases -- Starr's team supposedly wants those records to determine...
...proclaimed--has won him his share of attention in Washington, some of it puzzled, some mocking. In the online magazine Slate, Jacob Weisberg declares that "Klayman is off his rocker." But at least one of Klayman's early lines of pursuit has been picked up by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, a man who has faced, and faced down, more than a few complaints about his own investigative techniques. Last week Harold Ickes, the former White House deputy chief of staff, was brought before Starr's grand jury to answer questions about how information from the supposedly confidential Pentagon personnel file...
...Klayman who led Starr to Ickes. (Ickes, in fact, is the man whose cats Klayman wanted to know about.) In March New Yorker writer Jane Mayer reported that in 1969, at age 19, Tripp was arrested and charged with grand larceny, charges that were later reduced. Mayer also noted that Tripp had not disclosed the arrest on her Pentagon security-clearance form, information that Mayer got from Pentagon public affairs chief Kenneth Bacon. Starr got to thinking about Ickes because of news accounts of a contentious six-hour deposition that Ickes underwent as part of a Judicial Watch lawsuit...
...What Starr wants to know is whether anybody deliberately set out to compromise Tripp, his chief witness. Bacon and his deputy, Clifford Bernath--who were also deposed by Klayman, their depositions later subpoenaed by Starr--insist that the release of information about Tripp's application, which violated the federal Privacy Act, was an innocent mistake, not an order from the White House. Klayman is pleased but nonchalant about shepherding at least one target into Starr's line of fire. "Our goal," he says, "is not to help any investigation other than...
...Clinton money scandals.) Over the past year, his reach has grown considerably, in part because Judicial Watch received $550,000 in 1997 from Richard Mellon Scaife's Carthage Foundation (see chart). Scaife is the Clinton-hounding Pittsburgh billionaire who subsidizes Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., the school where Starr planned to assume two deanships until complaints concerning a potential conflict of interest caused him to change his mind. Scaife also made close to $1 million in payments in 1997 to the American Spectator magazine, which allegedly made payments to one of Starr's Whitewater witnesses, David Hale. Starr's office...