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...Starr is certainly taking an equally hard line with the White House. Late Wednesday he rejected its request that he restrict his questioning of top aides, leaving executive privilege as the only stonewall option. This came after his grand jury turned the spotlight on Clinton aide Bayani Nelvis -- who, the Wall Street Journal claims, saw Clinton and Lewinsky alone together in a room adjoining the Oval Office. Nelvis's lawyer, Joseph Small, called the Journal story "absolutely false and irresponsible." The feeding frenzy continues...
...only a feeding frenzy if we lead with Monica, right? Perhaps that's why rain footage from both coasts dominated everyone's ten o'clock shows. Unlike CNN, which REALLY likes weather news, CNBC's Brian Williams skipped away after the obligatory eight minutes and rated Kenneth Starr by comparing his record to that of other special prosecutors throughout history. He ran a respectable second, but as Susan McDougal pointed out in her "Dateline" interview (rerun in full Wednesday as a filler for Brian), Starr's success is strictly Triple-A and hasn't made it out of Little Rock...
...idea of President Clinton claiming executive privilege to keep Ken Starr away from his legal team sounds desperate, that's because it is. "Executive privilege is reserved for three things: military or diplomatic secrets, and matters of national security," says TIME Washington Deputy Bureau Chief J.F.O. McAllister. "It's hard to imagine a court ruling that Monica Lewinsky's sex life falls into any of those...
...easy to pierce," McAllister says. John Podesta, for instance, who testified Thursday, was in on most of those meetings, not to mention other staffers. And though Podesta's a lawyer, his capacity as deputy chief of staff is political. Says McAllister: "If he can listen in, the law says Starr...
...Neither of these gambits, then, is a good bet to hold up under a judge's scrutiny. And both of them make the President look like he's lying. But of course he may be lying. If that's the case, fighting Starr in the courts buys the White House what it cherishes most: time. The plan, says McAllister, is to delay things a while and "hope that they catch a break." That's the Administration mantra: The later America finds out, the better...