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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: raymond marcotte who wrote (3412)	1/29/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Hippieslayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

I'll respond later to your questions. I'm backed up at work. I'll write later...

To: raymond marcotte who wrote (3412)	1/29/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

<< if the legal pursuit of the clintons continues to 2000 then he could be the first president to leave office bankrupt since the 19th century.>> Jimmy Carter was basically broke when he left office.

To: raymond marcotte who wrote (3412)	1/29/1998 7:57:00 PM
From: Hippieslayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

I'd argue that Ken Starr has done about as well as he can considering that he's has seen his investigation of the CLintons expand in many directions. Remember, Ken Starr didn't just expand his investagation on his own. ALong the way, other scandals popped up and Reno decided to hand the new scandals over to Starr. I'd argue that Reno should have appointed new independent investigators instead of dumping everyithing into Starr's lap. He's been successful with McDougal, hubbell and Tucker-all players who have not given everything up to protect their friend. You can deny that their have been a lot of strange and suspicious events that have warranted an IC. If people are going to blame Starr, why don't they also blame Reno who has given STarr his power? There is also some speculation that the WH actually likes Starr to have all these scandals because he has his hands full. The WH would rather have 1 prosecutor to investigate 4 scandals then have 4 prosecutors on 4 scandals. Does that make sense? Read ruddynews.com to get a better idea of what I'm talking about. Bottom line is that I agree that the Whitewater investigation has broadened in scope but that's not the fault of Starr. The White house has also done a good job in slowing Starr down as well. As far as the millions of dollars that have been spent, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the waste of BILLIONS in congress/government. The IC law does have problems but remember that was the creation of Democrats. I don't recall Dem's complaining about Walsh during the 80 with Iran contra? I just picked up "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton" by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard who is a well respected hard hitting journalist for the The Daily Telegraph and The Economist. He spent a lot of time in Arkansas doing investigative work. I don't believe he's an anti-clinton right wing nut. Oh, isn't it interesting that CLinton has gone thru 5 White house counsels during his 4 years in the WH? Why so many. Maybe because these lawyers saw enought that they just couldn't handle the crap anymore.