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Kenneth Starr says he shouldn't have been involved; In the Lewinsky Case
Topic Started: Dec 2 2004, 04:59 PM (181 Views)
gvok
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Kenneth Starr says he shouldn't have been involved in Lewinsky case

The Associated Press
Last Updated 12:17 pm PST Thursday, December 2, 2004

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Kenneth Starr says he never should have led the investigation that resulted in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.
The former independent counsel, now dean of the Pepperdine University law school, says "the most fundamental thing that could have been done differently" was for somebody else to have investigated Clinton's statements under oath denying he had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Starr said his role in a yearslong investigation of Clinton should have focused instead on Clinton's role in the failed Arkansas land deal known as Whitewater.

"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 following a speech on Wednesday.

Clinton has accused Starr of running a partisan, Republican effort to ruin his presidency. Starr, however, defended the integrity of the investigation.

"It reinforced the proposition that all of us are subject to the law, no matter how high our station," he said. "The facts are the facts."

At his 1999 impeachment trial, Clinton was acquitted by the Senate of perjury and obstruction of justice. The Whitewater case ended with the conviction of Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and two of Clinton's former business partners for fraud and conspiracy. Clinton was never charged.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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"It reinforced the proposition that all of us are subject to the law, no matter how high our station," he said. "The facts are the facts."


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At his 1999 impeachment trial, Clinton was acquitted by the Senate of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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But he was still IMPEACHED.

At 1:22 P.M., the House of Representatives approved, 228 to 206, the first article of impeachment, accusing Mr. Clinton of perjury for misleading a Federal grand jury last Aug. 17 about the nature of his relationship with a White House intern, Monica S. Lewinsky. Roll call, page 36.

A second article of impeachment, charging Mr. Clinton with obstruction of justice, passed on a narrower vote of 221 to 212. It accused him of inducing others to lie in order to conceal his affair with Ms. Lewinsky.
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gvok
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To impeach means to accuse. He was aquitted of what he was accused of.
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Can’t you two go five minutes without turning a thread into a circus?

Freakin' A!

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Kenneth Starr says he never should have led the investigation that resulted in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton.

That is the most sensible thing I have ever heard that man say. For the most part I thought he was acting in an above board manner, but there were times when I got the impression that he was not (that he had ulterior motives in going after Clinton). The end result was I thought his actions were personally motivated instead of professionally motivated. Who knows though. :shrug:

If there were ever one story that I wish I could put into a cannon and shoot it to the moon...the whole Clinton scandal would be it. It is long over with, but it continues to divide this country.
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Gvok - you made your point about AB. No need to make it 500 times, you are not making any friends here with that attitude.

Both of you - discuss the damn article or go away. You are driving everyone else up a wall with your childish, petty feud.
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ANOVA
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Not me. I'm mildly entertained.

Of course, I still get hours of enjoyment out of the box a present came in and am easily distracted by bright shiny objects.

Once again Clinton was a piece of human excrement disguised as a real human being.

Ken Starr did what was asked of him by congress and Ok'd by Janet Reno.

Gvok:

So those votes at the impeachment trial weren't for his guilt? we were just voting on whether or not to accuse him? I learnt something new.

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Dec 2 2004, 07:22 PM
Gvok:

So those votes at the impeachment trial weren't for his guilt? we were just voting on whether or not to accuse him? I learnt something new.

That's right. A dictionary can help solve these sorts of things in the future.
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Coda
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Dean of Pepperdine U. ? I can't think of a more liberal University. LOL !
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I have to agree with Starr here. An investigation into Clinton's perjury about inappropriate actions with an employee of the federal government during working hours in the White House should have been handled by a different person.

Of course, Clinton could have then claimed that the "world plus one" was out to get him instead of just claiming "everyone was out to get him" for having sex with a person half his age who worked for him in his office whenever he felt like it "just because he could". It would have made the paranoia so much more dramatic. :drama: ;)

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