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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (15961)	11/25/1998 2:21:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

On that subject, we have: In Interview, Starr Says Control of Tripp Was Lax nytimes.com Duh. Why, exactly, Starr and the OIC should have had any control over Tripp in the first place is a question one might ask. Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel who has recommended that Congress impeach President Clinton, has acknowledged that his investigators should have kept closer watch on Linda Tripp, the government employee whose furtive tape recordings precipitated the criminal investigation of the president. "I think we could have had better control of her," Starr declared in an interview with ABC News to be broadcast Wednesday night. While yielding to second-guessing over his control of Ms. Tripp, his main witness, Starr repeated his insistence, made before Congress, that his office "had no indication whatsoever" that Ms. Tripp, following her interview with prosecutors, would immediately brief lawyers for Paula Corbin Jones about Monica Lewinsky's taped accounts of a sexual affair with the president. No idea at all. No sir. I bet Starr would say he has no idea who Richard Scaife Mellon is, too. So what if the Jones/Lewinsky affair was all that Starr could come up with on Clinton after 4 years. It was a totally random coincidence that Tripp went off to Jones' lawyers right away. The president's flat denial of misconduct with Ms. Lewinsky in the Jones suit triggered Starr's investigation and eventual recommendation that the president be impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton's defenders suspect collusion between the Jones lawyers in the civil case and the independent counsel's office. Nah. Now "Who killed Vince Foster", there's some real collusion there. Everybody but Richard Scaife Mellon and a few select objective types here gave up on that one a while ago, but everybody except them is stupid, too. In denying this, Starr, his impeachment recommendation against the president aside, said he found Clinton to be "extraordinarily talented, wonderfully empathetic." "I think he inspires just tremendous affection and loyalty by, you know, a wide range of people," said Starr, whose investigators have spent 10 months vetting many of Clinton's loyalists in trying to build a case against the president. A lost generation of loyalists, all contributing to the decline of the west. They all deserved whatever gentle handling they got from the Grand Inquisitor's agents. Cheers, Dan.