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...Starr's defenders will surely argue that what he is doing--coercing incriminating testimony--is business as usual for prosecutors. That does not make it right, either against the President or an ordinary citizen...
...Kenneth Starr were really interested in getting at the truth, he would immediately give Monica Lewinsky transactional immunity without first requiring her to proffer an incriminating story against the President. He could then compel her to testify in front of the grand jury. If she testifies that the President did no wrong, the immunity would still protect her from being prosecuted for any past crimes, but if Starr could prove that she lied in front of the grand jury, the immunity would not protect her from perjury charges for that testimony. There is no valid reason, therefore, for Starr...
...Lewinsky should be free to testify to the truth as she sees it, subject to the usual sanction of perjury, if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she deliberately lied after receiving the immunity. The content of her testimony should in no way be influenced by Starr's threats or promises. It is not Kenneth Starr who will be testifying. It is Monica Lewinsky, and Starr's heavy thumb should not be on the scales of truth...
...confessions on tape and get revenge, once and for all, on Clinton and the Democrats. Lewinsky agrees to the plan and reads the scripted confessions over the phone. Tripp makes the tapes and leaks them first to a Newsweek reporter and then to so-called Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr...
...finds Tripp, who not only believes Lewinsky's story, but corroborates it. Lewinsky pours out the details of her relationship to Tripp, who relays the story to Goldberg. Goldberg, a woman with no tolerance for corruption in government, advises Tripp to tape the conversations. Soon the tapes fall into Starr's lap, and what is he to do but seek to find out more information? When the scandal breaks, Clinton is devastated. His political career is on the line, and he knows it. He knows how to lie for sure, can keep a straight face with the best of them...