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While you wait for your moment of truth--the day you'll be called to appear before Ken Starr's grand jury--your mom is recovering from hers. For two days she was roasted by Starr's lawyers, who wanted to know everything about your sexual history--but didn't even get to your relationship with Bill Clinton before your mom broke down, hyperventilating and screaming. She's still a wreck; the tranquilizers are helping a bit, but your dad's TV interview last week unnerved her again. And she dreads Starr's lawyers. If they could do that...
WASHINGTON: We?ve heard a lot from Sidney Blumenthal -- the White House aide, veteran reporter and conspiracy theorist who publicly blasted Ken Starr?s prosecutors Thursday for their ?intimidating questions? about his contacts with journalists. But Terry F. Lenzner, Blumenthal?s comrade-in-subpoenas, has not yet had his moment in the sun. Talk about conspiracy theories -- Lenzner is a private investigator who was approached by the Clinton administration regarding the Whitewater, Paula Jones and Charlie Trie cases. The Associated Press has Secret Service logs showing Lenzner was cleared for White House access four times in one month...
...alleged connections to Clinton confidant Mickey Kantor. White House spokesman Jim Kennedy declined comment. All very cloak-and-dagger -- little more than circumstantial, but just the sort of thing Blumenthal would cry conspiracy over were he on the other side of the fence. As it is, Lenzner remains under Starr?s ever-broadening microscope. No doubt we?ll be hearing more in weeks to come...
...obvious implication: Lindsey knows too much. After Lindsey took a pass on a few too many questions while on the stand, Starr's prosecutors filed a motion to compel further testimony. Apparently unable to stomach that possibility, the White House has now locked arms with Starr in a legal skydive that will start soon in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's chambers -- and probably end in the Supreme Court...
...Monicagate damage control were vital to official government business -- a tall legal order. And the already sagging White House morale will not be helped by a round of news stories that are eerily reminiscent of Nixon's ultimately fruitless Supreme Court battle to keep the tapes private. On Ken Starr's side, fighting the privilege -- which may soon be extended to a slew of other White House confidants -- could bring the rest of his investigation to a screeching halt...