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To: Lucky Lady who wrote (15188)	8/3/1998 2:55:00 AM
From: Zardoz	Respond to of 116759

I'm not liking what I'm seeing on the foreign markets. Did China devalue? quote.yahoo.com Example: HK PS: I assume that Clinton would have enough sense to resign before impeachment. Anyways, it's probably "Clinton's Double" DNA.

To: Lucky Lady who wrote (15188)	8/3/1998 8:47:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

Yes - but everything has got a little off track here - what started as one thing became another and another and another. Improper behaviour on both sides. On the Richter Scale Starr's political motivation is pretty high say a 6!. Almost everyone would like this independent counsel statute to die. Clinton should have let it die when he had the chance - but the democrats were still fishing on the other side. One could say it serves them right. The whole thing has become a deep nightmare for both parties and it is a wonder that people still come forward to serve. Many from the Administration's first term have left for the private sector largely to pay huge legal bills. (the same for the Bush team) Nowadays staff don't dare keep sensitive memos - they are shredded., because it is most likely that they will be investigated. E

To: Lucky Lady who wrote (15188)	8/3/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Enigma	Respond to of 116759

Lucky Lady - 'Lawyers give mixed praise to Starr: Lawyers Give Mixed Praise to Starr By LAURIE ASSEO Associated Press Writer TORONTO (AP) Independent counsel Kenneth Starr, President Clinton and the news media took some sharp jabs Sunday at an American Bar Association discussion on the Monica Lewinsky investigation. ABA President-elect Philip Anderson questioned Starr's judgment in taking on the matter at all. "I think the judgment of the public in this case will be that in the exercise of wise prosecutorial discretion this matter should not have been pursued," said Anderson, of Little Rock, Ark., who once worked in the same law firm as Clinton. "I think there will be no impeachment." Starr's spokesman, Charles Bakaly, defended his boss as a "very duty-bound" person who will submit a report to the House on his investigation if he believes a report is warranted. "The only person in this room that knows any of the facts ... is me, and I can't talk about them. I won't talk about them," Bakaly said. Starr had been scheduled to appear on the panel, but canceled and sent Bakaly in his place. Clinton's former press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, said the president's testimony for a grand jury may require him to change his story "in some substantial way. I don't know what those ways are." "If he sticks to his guns ... this thing never dies," Myers said. "If he tells whatever the truth is ... I think the American people are very forgiving." Walter Dellinger, former acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration, said he feared the eventual outcome of the investigation would be a weakened presidency in the future. Dellinger, now a Duke University law professor, said there had been a "general disregard for the office of the presidency" but also acknowledged some claims of privilege "were pressed in not the strongest context." There's plenty of blame to pass around for the current situation, said University of Virginia professor and media critic Larry Sabato. "The press, prosecutor's office and the president's aides have all been on steroids since January, and that's been part of the problem," Sabato said. Some panelists said media standards had been lowered, with some news organizations picking up other organizations' reports without first trying to determine whether they were true. Bakaly defended the length of Starr's investigation, saying Clinton's assertions of privilege began less than a month after the inquiry into the matter of whether Clinton had sex with Ms. Lewinsky and illegally tried to cover it up started in January. "In the last six months, look at the litigation that has taken place," Bakaly said. "It is in our interest to get this thing done as quickly as possible and as fairly." When moderator George Freeman, assistant general counsel of The New York Times, asked panelists to predict the outcome of Starr's investigation, Bakaly drew a laugh from the audience by getting up as if to beat a hasty exit. Sabato predicted Starr's report would have new damaging information but that Clinton would never be convicted by the Senate even if he were impeached by the House. Theodore Olson, President Reagan's private lawyer during Iran-Contra, did not attempt to predict Clinton's future. But he said he did not believe Starr's report to the House of Representatives should recommend whether the president should or should not be impeached. Myers said she believes Clinton, already damaged by the investigation, will serve out his term and people will think Starr "made a mistake in ever petitioning to take this on." Bakaly noted that the independent counsel law "doesn't say what form, doesn't say how" a report should be submitted to the House. "If he (Starr) believes he has that duty under the act he will do it, he will submit the information," Bakaly said. (02 Aug 1998 19:58 EDT) For continuous breaking news, see AP Newstream Associated Press news material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. In Other News Monday, August 3, 1998 White House Will Appeal Attorney-Client Privilege Ruling JFK Autopsy Files Are Incomplete Lawyers Give Mixed Praise to Starr Lawyer-Bashing in N.C. Senate Race U.S. Prison Population Tops 1.2 Million Wisconsin Lesbian House Candidate Under Fire <Picture><Picture> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives ÿ \| ÿ CQ News ÿ \| ÿ TIME On Politics ÿ \| ÿ Search ÿ \| ÿ Feedback ÿ \| ÿ Help ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright c 1998 AllPolitics All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this information is provided to you. Read our privacy guidelines. Who we are.