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...lasts and how ugly it gets and what our politics will look like when it's all over. The White House was passionately opposed to hearing from anyone; the House prosecutors started the bidding at 15 and threatened to include women with Clinton stories to tell that even Ken Starr didn't think warranted repeating...
...fact, now that TIME's cover on Clinton and Starr has established the possibility of having yin-and-yang Men of the Year, we might look forward next year to having Larry Flynt and Richard Mellon Scaife. They would be presented as symbols of the enduring two-party system that's at the heart of our democracy...
...However, she may not be one for Starr himself. Sources tell TIME he has had concerns about the veracity of some of her statements. He met with Willey after he sent his impeachment referral to Capitol Hill but apparently did not feel he could build a strong enough case to send a follow-up referral based on her allegations...
...Starr's indictment last week of Julie Hiatt Steele raised eyebrows among defense lawyers. Steele is accused of obstructing justice and making false statements when she denied that Kathleen Willey told her Clinton made a pass at Willey in 1993. But stranger than the fact of the indictment of this bit player, say lawyers with no dog in the fight, is that it's based in part on Steele's telling her allegedly false version to the press, specifically Newsweek and the National Enquirer--and in 1997, before Starr had even begun this phase of his probe. Lawyers for Steele...
...repeated indecisions over appointing independent counsels to investigate Clinton campaign finances." Ironically, though, Reno will go down in history as the attorney general who actually approved the appointment of more independent counsels than any other: seven, to investigate various administration figures. Moreover, one of those independent counsels, Kenneth Starr, has become the first one to trigger the impeachment trial of a president. Beat that, William Wirt...