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Joseph Kennedy originally down-played the brewing controversy over his brother's actions, but as a criminal probe began, questions arose regarding the representative's actions upon learning about the allegations...
...stonewalling. Last week, after TIME reported that the White House had been waging a covert campaign to discredit Starr's deputies, perhaps with the help of private investigators, the prosecutor prepared to respond with some hardball of his own. But by subpoenaing White House spinmeister Sidney Blumenthal to probe his contacts with the press, Starr succeeded in undermining himself in ways the White House could have only dreamed...
...McCurry had been trying to extract himself from a misleading statement he had made over the weekend based on information provided to him by the White House counsel's office. Specifically, McCurry had flatly denied that anyone connected with the White House had hired or authorized private investigators to probe the background of prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A day later, on Monday, longtime Democratic operative Terry Lenzner acknowledged that his detective agency was indeed working for Clinton's lawyers and told the Washington Post that he found "nothing inappropriate" about investigating the prosecutors. So McCurry was left...
WASHINGTON: Message from the Lunar Prospector: There's water in them there craters. Or to be more precise, ice. The $65 million NASA probe thinks it has found between 10 and 100 million tons of the stuff, buried in polar craters -- enough to fill a lake two miles square and 35 feet deep. That kind of quantity, presumably deposited by comets and asteroids, could help us build oxygen-breathing lunar colonies and interplanetary refueling stations -- in the long...
...affair just as he had obtained Webb Hubbell's silence over Whitewater. If Jordan offers the slightest hint of a concerted effort to keep the former intern quiet, all well and good for Starr. If he sticks to the line given in his first public statement, the grand jury probe becomes more of an uphill struggle...