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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Now he tells us. Kenneth Starr says another independent counsel should have led the Monica Lewinsky investigation that resulted in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. He told a California newspaper he should only have focused on Clinton's role in the failed Arkansas land deal known as Whitewater and left the Lewinsky matter to someone else. "There was a sense on the part of the country that my [Lewinsky] effort was an effort somehow to expand the [Whitewater] investigation, when it was separate," he told the Santa Barbara News-Press. The former independent counsel, now dean...

"Proving that his whacked out theories have no end, Michael Moore has professed a new cause of 9/11 that even the 9/11 Commission could not find - Kenneth Starr. Speaking to delegates and members of the press yesterday, Michael Moore, who had originally promised not to attend the Democratic National Convention, and claims to be an independent voter was quoted saying, "You know at one time during the Lewinsky and Whitewater scandal there were more than 100 FBI agents working on some aspect of the cases. Why hasn't anyone asked the question. 'What would have happened if those 100 FBI...

From the rabidly pro-Clinton Arkansas Times - Fond farewell The Office of the Independent Counsel in the Whitewater investigation sent out its last press release this week, announcing that the office had, finally, "terminated all operations." What interested us most was seeing the names of Kenneth Starr's favorite journalistic cheerleaders on the list of recipients. At the very top, and deservedly so, was Sue Schmidt of the Washington Post, known as "The Stenographer" for her practice of repeating verbatim everything Starr's people told her. And there were the too-familiar others: Pete Yost of the Associated Press, Mike Isikoff of Newsweek,...

In the fall of 1998, just as the House impeachment hearings on Clinton were gearing up, White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was contacted by Jeffrey Toobin, a former colleague from The New Yorker. Toobin was trolling for sexual dirt on House Judiciary Committee chair Henry Hyde. As it happened, Blumenthal didn't have much. But he confided that his mother had once worked in a secretarial pool in Chicago in the 1940s, and Hyde, then a Chicago area lawyer, had had a "reputation"—apparently, all the women had "avoided his office." The details of this "reputation" didn't become known until a few...

<p>Kenneth W. Starr's credentials for examining the U.S. Supreme Court are matchless. He earned kudos as solicitor general of the United States, as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit, and as independent counsel in the Whitewater-Monicagate investigation. Mr. Starr further gained a bird's-eye view of the High Court as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger. And his style is refreshingly felicitous.</p>

Don't blame me. I'm just posting the B.S. here. Freep the author at: http://www.theopinion.com/engine/article.asp?id=1254 _______________ BAD WILL HUNTING by Len Hart April 22, 2002 The Republican obsession with Bill Clinton has reached absurd and neurotic proportions. The durability of Bill Clinton as a Republican scapegoat is one of the marvels of our age. Republicans felt acute separation anxiety when Clinton's term ended, but their fears proved groundless: He may have left the White House, but he had not left the front page or the consciousness of those who regarded him as the model of what not to be. Mary McGrory,...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) --  Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel, will lead the court challenge seeking to overturn large parts of the campaign finance bill passed by Congress.</p> <p>Sen. Mitch McConnell, expected to be the lead plaintiff in the case, said Thursday that his legal team would be led by Starr, who gained national prominence in his pursuit of former President Clinton over the Whitewater land deal and the Monica Lewinsky case, and by First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams.</p>