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...annals of Clintonian scandal, March 1998 may be remembered as a month of sideshows: the rise and fall of Kathleen Willey; a putative White House plot to smear Ken Starr's deputies; a wave of supposed Clinton paramours rising from the files of the Paula Jones case; a campaign-plane flight attendant named Cristy Zercher who says she was groped by Clinton but came so late to the party that her tabloid story fetched only about $50,000. But now, 11 weeks after the independent counsel began his search for misbehavior and cover-up, the scandal is finally circling back...
...Starr has always known that to make a credible case against Clinton he must go beyond sex to prove a pattern of obstruction. Sources tell TIME that the prosecutor appears to be close to wrapping up just such a case and reporting it to Congress. "Starr has enough to send up to the Hill," says a lawyer familiar with the case. After gathering documents, E-mail and testimony from Lewinsky's confidantes, Starr and his deputies may have gathered sufficient corroborating evidence to prove that what Lewinsky said in her tape-recorded conversations with Linda Tripp was more than...
...circumstantial evidence that suggests Clinton oversaw Lewinsky's job search and tried to coach the testimony of a potential witness, his secretary, Betty Currie. But it is difficult to imagine Congress moving to impeach a wildly popular President with nothing more than tantalizing but indirect facts. Which is why Starr has set his sights on two eyewitnesses whose testimony could seal the case. One of them, a key source tells TIME, is a Secret Service agent who has told colleagues he saw Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation. The existence of this agent was first reported in January...
...Democrats, of course, are on the attack, but Republicans have a trickier play: How to support Starr as an enemy of Bill without attaching your name to the investigator's ghastly approval ratings? Arlen Specter hedged with the 'if true' approach: "Unless there is an open and shut case, the kind which would result in a resignation, as happened with President Nixon, I do not think there ought be an impeachment proceeding...
...Republicans still want the deed to the high ground if Joe Friday winds up nailing his man. But until Starr can walk up the Hill this summer with an air-tight case, encouraging words from the GOP will be few and far between...