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

To: Ish who wrote (23484)	12/21/1998 11:29:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

it a court martial offence to criticize the CIC So let me get this straight. Now you are saying that the military and state department launched attacks that they did not plan or advocate and are now cowering in fear of a court marshal? When McArthur was dismissed for speaking out in disagreement with Truman's policy he was not sent to Levenworth. Was he the last soldier of integrity? TP

To: Ish who wrote (23484)	12/21/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

Ken Starr passed up chance to trap Clinton in devastating lie WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (AFP) - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr had, but declined, a chance to trap Bill Clinton in such a stark lie that it could have destroyed the president overnight, Time magazine reports this week. In its annual "Man of the Year" issue -- this year presenting the honor to men of the year Starr and Clinton -- the prosecutor told the magazine he passed up the chance because it seemed like the "right thing to do." Before Clinton testified to the grand jury, Starr had received the results of DNA tests on the infamous stains from Monica Lewinsky's blue dress but was not legally obligated to inform the president he had them. The prosecutors had a choice: "keep secret the results of the DNA analysis until after the president's testimony, or ... tip off the president before he swore his oath," Time said. Instead of setting the trap, which could have led Clinton to continue to deny his relationship with Monica Lewinsky under oath, Starr immediately asked the White House for a presidential blood sample, saying he had a "substantial" precise factual basis for the request, Time said. Starr told the magazine in an interview that he tipped off the president to the test results because it was "in everyone's interest to get to the bottom of this." In its men of the year story on Starr, Time contends that much of the criticism of Starr -- that he mistreated Lewinsky and colluded with Linda Tripp and Paula Jones' lawyers to entrap the president -- has "little basis in fact." An official from the public integrity unit of the Justice Department monitored Starr's investigation. He was there to say "watch out for this, or watch out for that," Starr told Time. The prosecutor, whom Time Managing Editor Walter Issacson compared to "Captain Ahab in his relentless pursuit of Moby Dick," told the magazine he was not aware that Congress was going to publicly release the entire contents of his sexually explicit report. In addition, Starr conceded to the magazine that his report should have directly quoted Lewinsky as saying no one at the White House had ever told her to lie about her relationship with Clinton. "It cannot fairly be said we were trying to hide that, but it did give (the other side) a nice debating point," Starr said.