As the plot thickens, Starr has some explaining to do

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: October 18, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

WASHINGTON - Before taking away another chunk of Kenneth Starr's depleted credibility, it helps to remember what happened to his predecessor.

Robert Fiske was dumped four years ago by the three-judge panel charged with overseeing independent counsels solely because he had been originally selected for his work by Attorney General Janet Reno.

Fiske had started as a special prosecutor for the Whitewater real estate affair because the independent counsel statute -- detested by conservatives and now detested by nearly everybody -- had expired. When a Democratic Congress finally got a new law ...

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