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...Lewinsky-related. Jordan is not answering questions on the Webster Hubbell matter, for which he is also still under Starr's microscope. The current White House staff is playing the danger of Jordan's evidence for all it's worth. But Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel, told CNN: "I've not heard anything that suggests he would testify in a way that would be damaging to the President." When all is said and done, Jordan is unlikely to do any harm to his old friend Bill Clinton...
...that Starr's efforts are anywhere near exhausted. According to the L.A. Times, he's subpoenaed the legal effects of Lewinsky's former lawyer, Francis Carter. According to CNN, he's dragging Betty Currie and Bruce Lindsey back before the jury Thursday. Maybe after those repeat performances, Starr will feel inclined to finally call Monica herself -- and get this salacious media event over with...
...estimated 200 million people in countries and territories around the world were tuned to CNN as what was supposed to be the Administration's Donahue-style talk show suddenly lurched into an updated version of a Vietnam-era teach-in. The selling of Operation Desert Thunder had become a public relations debacle. But it wasn't just the noisy minority doing what comes naturally to university students, or the obvious discomfort among the TV people on the floor. What really damaged the sales pitch of Washington's three amigos was the questions from scholars, veterans and other upstanding citizens...
...famous Town Meeting that CNN broadcast from Columbus, Ohio, last Wednesday, when an unhappy trio of Administration foreign-policy advisers squirmed while cranks and crackpots fumed and bellowed, was by any measure a disaster--catastrophic as diplomacy, unlucky as public relations and worthless as a means of preparing the country for war. That's too bad, of course, but look on the bright side: the Ohio calamity may do away with "national town meetings" once...
TOMAHAWK CRUISE MISSILE In 1991 a stunned CNN newsman watched a ship-launched Tomahawk navigate past his Baghdad hotel room toward its last stop. We used 288 last time Cost: $750,000 each...