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They built it--The New School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, sometimes known as Baywatch U for its Malibu setting--and he will come. Not in August, as he promised, but as soon as independent counsel Kenneth Starr can get rid of the pesky job of investigating the President and First Lady...
With his departure delayed until the Whitewater investigation is "substantially complete," Starr went back to work as if nothing had changed. But so much has. This latest incident leaves no doubts about Starr's ties to the far right. The school he will head was founded with a $1.1 million grant from Richard Mellon Scaife, the Pittsburgh newspaper publisher and heir to the Mellon fortune who funds some of the most virulent anti-Clinton organizations. Although former counsel Robert Fiske, the coroner and the FBI found that Vince Foster's death was a suicide, Starr reopened that investigation. Scaife...
...Starr admits he knew of Scaife's ties to Pepperdine and groups interested in the outcome of his Whitewater probe but insists nonetheless that there's no conflict. Starr's deputy John Bates says, "It's not political but legal judgment that matters, and Starr's remains impeccable." At the very least, as Joseph DiGenova, a former independent counsel and U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration, points out, "It's another unfortunate circumstance which is unnecessarily distracting." DiGenova faults Starr too for continuing his $1-million-a-year law practice, which includes tobacco clients, and for speaking at Clinton-basher...
Then, just as that deduction was sinking in, Starr reversed himself and decided to stay on as counsel indefinitely. "I think there was a fairly broad-based sense that I had made a mistake," Starr said by way of explanation. But the damage had already been done. "He spilt the milk," said former federal prosecutor Joseph DiGenova. "He's picking...
...that, as the proverb suggests, is almost impossible. Starr may yet bring indictments against Clinton aides who participated in a possible cover-up during the first term or perjured themselves in sworn testimony. But attention is shifting--from a scandal based partly on the hard-to-believe idea that Clinton tried to enrich himself to the easy-to-believe idea that he wanted to get re-elected. Clinton, everyone knows, cares little about making money. But when it comes to winning, he takes no prisoners...