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Exhibit A is Udolf, a career federal prosecutor in the Justice Department's Miami office on loan to Starr in Washington. It was Udolf who helped negotiate the immunity deal with Monica Lewinsky that Starr has backed away from. But it was Udolf's role in a 1987 Georgia case that had Starr's office in confusion last week. In that case, he was found to have violated a defendant's civil rights when he was Georgia state prosecutor. The defendant, Ronald Reeves, was arrested on a weapons offense, held for several days in jail without being charged...
...Reeves case could resonate, Starr's critics say, because it is not the only time one of his deputies has tried to block a defendant's right to counsel. Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg, has accused Starr deputy Emmick of violating his client's rights when Emmick resisted her attempts to contact an attorney in January during a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. At the time, Lewinsky wanted to call Frank Carter, the Washington lawyer provided by Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan, but FBI agents working for Starr and Emmick warned her that such a call would...
...those incidents were just a few of the stories circulating last week about the all-Starr team, suggesting that someone, perhaps allied with Clinton, had hired a private investigator to excavate the dirt on the independent counsel. A top Washington sleuth who may be looking into Starr's camp or its possible connections with Clinton's enemies is Terry Lenzner of Investigative Group International, who worked for the Democratic National Committee last year. In a brief interview, Lenzner denied that he was probing Starr, but before TIME could ask if he was investigating Starr's lieutenants he said...
Denials could be heard elsewhere last week as more Clinton aides turned up in the grand-jury room. Up to now, Starr's strategy has been take-lots-of-prisoners. But with the notable exception of Lewinsky's mother Marcia, most of the people Starr brought before the grand jury have been small fry, White House stewards and Lewinsky-level junior aides. With last week's appearance by Bruce Lindsey, Clinton's closest adviser and top secret keeper, the independent counsel is going right for the President's inner circle. And so in addition to attacking Starr, the White House...
...after spending five hours before the grand jury on Wednesday, Lindsey returned the next morning with a flying wedge of 10 White House-friendly lawyers to argue with Starr's side over just which conversations Lindsey would be compelled to discuss. Clinton claimed Executive privilege on Friday, and Starr, the former Solicitor General, will fight the claim all the way to the Supreme Court. The Justices have attempted to define the scope of that privilege before, acknowledging the right of a President to shield some conversations, but not if they involve matters subject to criminal investigation. Clinton is also claiming...