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Politics : THE STARR REPORT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alan w who wrote (1429)	9/23/1998 9:13:00 PM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1533

Think, people, about your families, your private lives. If the government handed one of your enemies $40 million and asked them to dig up dirt on your personal life what would they find? Think about those painful personal incidents that leave dark spots on our souls--affairs, harsh words, substance abuse, tearful memories. We all have skeletons in our closet. We all have or are close to people who have committed hurtful acts. We would prefer to keep those events in the private realm. What would you do to keep those incidents secret? That's all Clinton tried to do. You know, as far as I'm concerned, Clinton's actions--both his having sex with an immature girl less than half his age, his lying about it afterward, and his bombing of a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory in a lame attempt to divert attention--are pretty despicable. He, his maker, and his family will have to deal with his personal behavior. (As for the bombing, maybe someone, someday will bring him before a War Crimes Tribunal--but then he'd have to wait in line behind George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and other architects of U.S. foreign policy atrocities). His actions, however, still don't excuse Starr's dragging the issue into an investigation that concerned a 20-year-old land deal. The fact that Starr chose to focus on Lewinsky instead of Whitewater, the Travel Office, the FBI files, and all the other alleged Clinton shenanigans says far more about him and his value system than it does about the president. If you look at the polls, it also says more about Starr than it does about the American people, who generally and thankfully do not care one iota if the president has a fetish for oral sex. Why in the first place did "the exact details" have to be known? What does lying about a sexual dalliance in a civil suit have to do with a quite legitimate investigation into criminal wrongdoing in an real estate matter? Was the Independent Prosecutor's role to find evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the execution or cover-up of a land deal, or to dredge up dirt on the president?