< I think, however, that if there were anything to these rather wild charges, Ken Starr
would be all over 'em, not fishing about in Willy's boudoir. >
And just what do you think Starr's office has been doing the last several years prior to Tailgate with those FBI agents and Justice Department attorneys? Apparently he is concerned enough about this type of activity to have Tripp in a safe house and judge Wright's security detail beefed up considerably. When Starr issues his report hopefully many of these somewhat uglier episodes around Slick will be addressed.
Let's not forget that the only reason we even have this thread is because his ongoing investigation was compromised by the mainstream press, a la the Washington Post (A true FOB). Newsweek was sitting on the story, showing good journalistic integrity, nobody would believe it from the Drudge report hints. The Post tipped off their man and the rest of us in the process. If Starr had had one or two more days he could have nailed all the principal players if guilty vis a vis wiring Monica (People didn't seem to be too upset with the video sting of Marion Barry smoking crack, "The bitch set me up", they wouldn't have been in this case either. Once somebody is a proven criminal society seems to abandon them quickly). Slick would have been out of office in a big O minute, the markets would have tumbled briefly and President Gore would have had the moral authority to begin the apparently inevitable immoral campaign against Iraq. Using our weapons of mass destruction to get rid of Saddam's (Don't get me wrong, I'm no fan of Saddam's, just not sure of the moral justification for armed conflict at this point, much less destabiilizing a region that we have so much dependence on). The fact that the Post broke the story has changed this calculus tremendously.
Now we have the current situation, looking at a weakened president scrambling to hold onto power, and most likely lying through his teeth to do so, expecting enough suckers out there to buy it so he can finish his term and assume his place in history. Rather than do the morally right thing for the country and resign, Billary have decided that struggling to retain their power is more important than any divisive effects the struggle might have on the country and world affairs. Good luck to us all, especially those in the armed forces to whom swearing an oath and words like duty, honor, country still mean something. |
