STARR A TESTAMENT TO EVASION, STONEWALLING AND FALSIFICATION.(Editorial)(Column)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: November 25, 1998 | Copyright information

Kenneth Starr was a smooth witness, a seeming straight arrow. But when you look at what he actually said - look at his answers to questions - he was as straight as a corkscrew.

-- Monica Lewinsky was confronted by Starr's agents in a hotel last Jan. 16. Wasn't it their purpose, he was asked in the House Judiciary Committee hearing, to get her to wear a wire and record Vernon Jordan or the president?

``It was not,'' Starr said. Then he obfuscated that seemingly flat denial by saying: ``We said one of the things that a cooperating witness can do is assist us in consensual ...

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