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Whitewater's Kenneth Starr is the independent counsel Democrats love to hate. But Smaltz has the distinction of making even the most neutral lawyers argue that Attorney General Janet Reno should think twice before triggering any more such appointments. Smaltz was asked to determine whether former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy took favors from companies, including chicken-processing giant Tyson Foods, that had business before his department. But after spending more than $9 million, Smaltz has compiled a record that shows the perils of prosecutorial passion. Last week he suffered his most serious rebuke, when a federal judge granted...
...tried to get her to testify against her husband despite the long-standing marital-privilege doctrine. He says they also hauled the aide's son out of college midterms, sent him before a grand jury and threatened him with perjury to pressure his father into a plea bargain. Starr has had to tell Smaltz to back off from delving into issues involving Clinton. Some FBI agents and several attorneys have left the investigation because of what they considered its excesses. Two former Smaltz staff members have told TIME the counsel took liberties with government resources by regularly asking employees...
Here's hoping it's out of Paul McCartney's system. The three Beatles Anthology albums, which came out in 1995-96, were an exhaustive, exhausting exploration of the Fab Four's musical past, featuring the reunion of surviving Beatles McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison with the one late Beatle, John Lennon, on a beyond-the-grave ballad, Free as a Bird, and the release of obscure tracks such as the fifth take of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band and the seventh take of Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! By now, it seems...
WASHINGTON: Aggressively taking on Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr, President and Mrs. Clinton's private attorney accused the special prosecutor of violating grand jury secrecy rules for the purpose of launching a smear campaign against the First Lady. Responding to a New York Times Magazine article in which unnamed Whitewater prosecutors commented on the investigation, Kendall wrote to Starr that the prosecutor's office engaged in a public relations attack inconsistent with its legal responsibilities. "The comments of you and persons in your office directly and indirectly quoted in the magazine article flout all these obligations," he said. "Grand jury secrecy...
...KENNETH STARR What's in a name? High court rebuffs his desire to be called "the United States" in suit...