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...came last week. In the fraud-and-conspiracy trial brought by Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, a jury in Little Rock returned 24 guilty verdicts against Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton's former partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim and Susan McDougal. After nine weeks of dry courtroom exposition, the jury essentially concluded that the defendants had used McDougal's savings and loan as a private cookie jar, dipping into it for bogus loans to bankroll their many business schemes. Clinton wasn't a defendant in the case (merely a witness for the defense), and most jurors...
Instead of giving Clinton the hoped-for acquittal--which could have buried the issue and discredited Starr--the jurors handed the G.O.P. a bright flag to plant in the Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because...
...James Carney says the McDougals' convictions brought on an abrupt about-face from the Administration. "The White House was feeling pretty cocky about these various scandals until this week, and was playing hardball the Oversight Committee." The Committee's findings will be closely watched by Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, whose authority was expanded a couple of months ago to include the travel office affair. Nobody expects today's move to end the Travelgate issue, but by releasing the documents the White House avoids the spectacle of a full House contempt vote against Jack Quinn; David Watkins, the former official...
...simple answer is that a scandal gestating as long as Whitewater is bound to generate fresh subscandals to feed the ever growing appetite for drama. So convoluted is the scandal business that ethicsmeister Starr has hired his own ethics counselor, Sam Dash, which has in turn created its own spin-off controversy. The price for Dash's lingering aura of rectitude from his days as Watergate counsel--$3,200 weekly for eight hours of work--is almost as inflated as the $42,550 for 12 of Jackie O.'s ashtrays. Under questioning, Dash conceded that some of Starr's activities...
...Friday, a week after the anniversary, the specter of militiamen poised for violence returned. Federal agents raided a suspected bombmaking site in central Georgia, arresting two members of a right-wing paramilitary group on bomb-conspiracy charges. The agents seized enough material to make 40 pipe bombs. Robert Edward Starr III, 34, an electrician, and William James McCranie Jr., 30, a plumber, were said to be stockpiling the arsenal in preparation for an upcoming "war" against the government. Starr and McCranie, who were taken into custody by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, are allegedly members of an organization...