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WASHINGTON: The fishing expedition is under way. House Judiciary Committee members have begun hearing from witnesses in the Kathleen Willey affair, a matter so nebulous that even Ken Starr did not make impeachment charges out of it. Willey's lawyer, Daniel Gecker, went in front of a closed-door session of the committee Monday and left without comment. Up next: Nathan Landow, the Democratic donor and landowner, will be probed on whether President Clinton asked him to influence Willey's testimony. When he appeared before Starr's grand jury, Landow invoked the Fifth Amendment. Whether 37 politicians can succeed...
...face of it, nothing that Starr did last Friday seemed sufficient to change that dynamic. At Hyde's request he sent to the House some new evidence concerning whether Clinton lied when he told lawyers for Paula Jones that he did not attempt to kiss and fondle Kathleen Willey, a former White House volunteer. But Starr stopped short of making a new referral of wrongdoing, like those in his September report to the House. This time he simply invited the committee to look into Willey's story...
...times (more than five, for some) that they were asked to appear before the grand jury to Starr's scouring of their private lives. The story of Julie Hiatt Steele, a peripheral figure in the case, may be aired. She has contradicted parts of the story told by Kathleen Willey about Willey's alleged sexual harassment by Clinton near the Oval Office. Investigators have combed through Steele's bank, credit and phone records, called her daughter and other family members before the grand jury, questioned her friends and neighbors and subpoenaed her tax accountant twice. They have even been inquiring...
...hour session with Ken Starr weren't punishment enough, House Judiciary Committee members had to stay behind after class Thursday night while the two sides bitterly debated over whether to call new witnesses to the impeachment inquiry. Offering no explanation, the GOP majority railroaded four new subpoenas -? for Kathleen Willey's attorney, Daniel Gecker; Democratic donor Nathan Landow; Clinton attorney Bob Bennett and White House lawyer Bruce Lindsey. "What's interesting," says TIME Washington correspondent James Carney, "is that we still don't know what the Republicans have in mind by deposing them. Do they believe already that these witnesses...
...What's worse is the nebulous nature of the evidence. At least Clinton admitted to an "improper" tryst with Lewinsky; where Willey was concerned, the White House released a sackful of letters suggesting this Democratic volunteer was less than harassed. "This is classic he-said, she-said stuff," says Branegan. "Starr is scraping the bottom of the barrel here." Which could explain why the independent counsel is not making an official impeachment charge -? and why he released the Willey evidence on a day when the rest of Washington was focused on Iraq. Not that Starr has been completely unproductive...