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...this one soon. It's the closing act of the William Ginsburg phase of her case. Ginsburg, who is now her former attorney, loved the camera even more than Lewinsky does. For months he was easier to find on TV than the weather report, all the while alienating Kenneth Starr by his public denunciations of the independent counsel's tactics. Given that his client was trying to deny a sexual involvement with the President, he also had an unhelpful way of describing her. Not long after he told TIME that he had kissed the infant Lewinsky's inner thighs--"those...
Stein, 73, is a former special prosecutor whose 1984 investigation of Ed Meese, then Ronald Reagan's Attorney General-designate, was wrapped up, in contrast to Starr's, with a minimum of time and expense. As for Cacheris, 68, during the Iran-contra scandal he got immunity for Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall. He also got CIA spy Aldrich Ames spared from the death penalty...
...deal if they can. If they strike the deal that Ginsburg could not, one that gives Lewinsky immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, it could mean trouble for the White House. On the whole, Ginsburg wasn't entirely bad for Bill Clinton. The lawyer's attacks on Starr did nothing to hasten the day when his client could enter an agreement to offer testimony that might put the President in a bind. By contrast, just minutes after they signed up to be Lewinsky's new team, Cacheris and Stein paid a courtesy call on Starr, with whom Stein...
...Starr has been struggling to make a case out of circumstantial evidence. If Lewinsky tells his grand jury that she and the President did indeed have sex--or better still, that he attempted to get her to lie about it in her sworn statement to the lawyers for Paula Jones--it would be the automatic centerpiece of Starr's report to Congress, his best evidence not only of perjury but also of Clinton's obstructing justice. She could also make life very difficult for Vernon Jordan, whose job-hunting assistance for Lewinsky could be made to look like an attempt...
...same, a deal is not a foregone conclusion. Earlier Whitewater targets have complained that Starr and his prosecutors demand very specific testimony in exchange for immunity. Just as Susan McDougal and Webb Hubbell have done, Lewinsky and her lawyers may decide he wants more than they can reasonably--or truthfully--give him. "Starr's record has been to try to persuade and pressure witnesses to tell them what he needs," says former presidential aide Lanny Davis. "These two [lawyers] will not put up with that...