The longer Ken Starr chases Bill Clinton, the more the independent counsel comes to resemble his quarry. Like the President, Starr is developing a tendency to get a little momentum going, then do something to trip himself up. Last February, for instance, he told a federal judge that he had received important new information from the Clintons' former business partner Jim McDougal on a key portion of the investigation. Nine days later, Starr announced that he was abandoning the Whitewater probe to become a California law-school dean. (A chorus of jeers forced him to reconsider.) And in a major victory last...
HAS STARR GONE TOO FAR?
THE THREE-YEAR, $30 MILLION PROBE OF A SMALL-TIME ARKANSAS LAND DEAL HAS TAKEN SOME TROUBLING TURNS
Subscriber content preview.
or
Log-In
To continue reading:
or
Log-In