Ken Starr; Still A Douche-bag

I have to say that Ken Starr is even sicker than we thought.

Someone who has this much hatred and animosity toward anyone should not be allowed to prosecute (nor persecute) that person. Ken Starr is clearly over the line.

He is a sick man.


WASHINGTON - Ken Starr says he could have "dumped on" Hillary Rodham Clinton for her dealings with Vince Foster but chose not to - provoking sharp new questions about the conduct of the controversial Whitewater independent counsel. In "My Way," a biography of the former first lady written by two New York Times reporters, Starr hints he uncovered new details about her interactions with Foster, who was helping with her response to the Whitewater probe in 1993.

"I could have dumped on her," said Starr, who found no evidence of wrongdoing in connection with Foster's July 20, 1993 suicide. Starr's predecessor, Robert Fiske, reached the same conclusion. Starr didn't reveal any new information about Foster to the authors.

"Two independent counsels investigated this and completely cleared both Clintons," said Lanny Davis, who led White House damage control during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. "For Ken Starr to talk to reporters after announcing he cleared them [the Clintons], with the innuendo that he could have done something else, is a reckless abuse of prosecutorial power."Calls to Starr, now a dean at Pepperdine School of Law, weren't returned last night.

Davis and other Clinton supporters were incensed by footnotes indicating that co-author Jeff Gerth was given details of Starr's investigation by independent counsel "prosecutors" and "officials" from 1997 to 1999."

The footnotes prove what I know with direct personal knowledge, and that is that Ken Starr's prosecutors were consistently whispering in reporters' ears, but always with anonymity," Davis said. "They didn't have the guts to be held accountable."

Starr's comments are legal, said St. John's University law school professor John Barrett, but go against prosecutors' unwritten code to "button their lip" if a probe doesn't result in a prosecution. "I'm of the old school: that a prosecutor brings, or doesn't bring, an indictment and then goes out of business," said Barrett, who worked with independent counsel Lawrence Walsh on the Iran/Contra investigation. "I think it's better practice, in the interest of credibility, to wear the white hat."


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