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...independent counsel act, the law that permits Kenneth Starr to conduct dragnet investigations into private lives, taking as much time as he wants, spending as much money as he wants, inquiring into whatever excites his prurient curiosity--and all without visible accountability. Starr usurped congressional prerogatives when instead of following Leon Jaworski's Watergate precedent of submitting his findings in a neutral form and allowing the House of Representatives to make its own judgment, he shaped them into a demand for impeachment. From compliant judges he obtained rulings that turn White House lawyers, aides and even Secret Service personnel into...
While the genetic dragnet cast over Lawrence has not yet yielded any arrests, it has led to controversy. Over the past decade, as anybody who followed the O.J. Simpson trial can attest, DNA profiling has become almost as important a part of crime fighting as fingerprinting. But even as technology pushes forensic science forward, the Constitution has worried it back. The Fourth Amendment guarantees citizens protection from unreasonable searches and seizures, and although the Founding Fathers didn't contemplate strands of DNA when drafting the Bill of Rights, what search could be more invasive than an assay of our very...
MIKE ESPY Survives $17 million dragnet over free tickets and gifts. Your tax dollars at work...
Forget about habeas corpus. The FBI plans to charge Eric Robert Rudolph with the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, even though he's eluded their dragnet for almost nine months without straying far from his backyard. Rudolph is also wanted for an attack on an Alabama abortion clinic in which an off-duty policeman was killed, but the feds hope the new charges will smoke him out of his North Carolina mountain hideout. "Investigators hope that the new charges will make any antiabortion fanatics who may be helping Rudolph back off," says TIME Atlanta bureau reporter Tim Roche...
...President Clinton and Paula Jones are in the midst of cutting a deal over her sexual harassment suit -- nearly six months after an Arkansas judge dismissed it, nine months after it sparked off the Monica Lewinsky investigation, and one month after the President angrily denounced the "politically motivated" sex dragnet in his grand jury testimony. Although neither the White House nor pugnacious personal Clinton attorney Bob Bennett would discuss the details, the Times reports that Jones' lawyers have asked for $1 million and that Clinton's have countered with $500,000 -- roughly equal to Paula Jones' legal costs. Mercifully, Jones...