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...tactics against him, bringing up the workplace and sexual histories of the prosecutors who themselves were dredging up the workplace and sexual history of the President. And it seemed to be working: just as the probe was supposed to be heating up, two of Starr's top lieutenants, Bruce Udolf and Michael Emmick, were being kept busy just defending themselves from charges of legal and other misconduct--and Starr surely had to appreciate this irony, didn't he?--resulting from a carefully orchestrated campaign of damaging leaks...
Exhibit A is Udolf, a career federal prosecutor in the Justice Department's Miami office on loan to Starr in Washington. It was Udolf who helped negotiate the immunity deal with Monica Lewinsky that Starr has backed away from. But it was Udolf's role in a 1987 Georgia case that had Starr's office in confusion last week. In that case, he was found to have violated a defendant's civil rights when he was Georgia state prosecutor. The defendant, Ronald Reeves, was arrested on a weapons offense, held for several days in jail without being charged...
...White House, the get-Starr strategy is not without risk. After Clinton met early Saturday morning with Harold Ickes, a now outside adviser helping him through the Monica mess, officials sought to distance the President from the covert attacks on Starr's operation. They even hinted that Udolf and Emmick, who just hours before were the targets of a mad round of telephone calls to reporters from Clinton allies, were actually more reasonable than others on the Starr payroll. A White House official watching it all said privately that he was careful to avoid any discussion of the counsel...
...will remain front and center. Democratic lawmakers are poised to turn up the heat on Attorney General Janet Reno this week, urging her to launch a probe into alleged leaks from Starr's office. Meanwhile, lawyers for Lewinsky have asked Reno to conduct lie-detector tests on Starr, Emmick, Udolf, Jackie Bennett and another trusted aide, Bob Bittman, to see if they have leaked privileged information to reporters. "These guys don't play by the rules," said a defense attorney. But in the unholy war between Starr and Clinton, there are no rules...
There's a more subtle game being played out here -- an endgame, in fact, between Starr and the White House. Someone did leak information to the press about prosecutors Bruce Udolf and Mike Emmick's previous records of riding roughshod over defendants' rights. Blumenthal, a master of White House spin, is a plausible suspect. But by bringing his accusation out into the open, Starr risks losing even more public sympathy and congressional support...