Communist Party weighs on on Starr
Conservative News Service
8/3/98 Scott Hogenson
(CNS) After taking a barrage of criticism from Clinton allies, White House defenders, congressional Democrats and liberal pundits, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr can chalk-up one more detractor - the Communist Party, USA.
The most recent attack on Starr came in an article published in People's Weekly World, which included remarks by Communist Party, USA vice-chairman Jarvis Tyner. In the article, Tyner accused Starr of having "coerced (Monica) Lewinsky into testifying," following last week's immunity deal between Lewinsky's lawyers and the office of the independent council.
Lewinsky was granted transactional immunity after she reportedly agreed to testify about having an on-going relationship with Clinton, and then planning to deny it under oath, as she did in her deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case last year.
"It's a right-wing conspiracy to hold on to the Congress in 1998 and win the presidency in the year 2000," Tyner told the World, the newspaper of the American Communist Party.
Tyner, who failed to note in his remarks that a panel of federal judges and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno oversee Starr's activities, compared Starr to Joseph McCarthy, the senator who conducted hearings nearly 50 years ago into allegations that communists were working within the U.S. government.
Among the allegations leveled against Starr, Tyner also accused the independent council of trying to help Republicans realize "their real goal: privatization of Social Security, terminating affirmative action (and) busting unions."
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