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"Judgment day is getting closer and closer," Pat Buchanan warns ( McLaughlin Group ). Buchanan and McLaughlin identify Clinton's political victory in the week (Starr looked like a partisan bully) and his legal defeat (what Starr pulled from Monica's mom is another nail in the coffin).
Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until "our investigation" (whatever that consisted of).
Yet Morris did amazingly little to try to nail it down.
A federal judge threw out Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's tax evasion case against Webster Hubbell . Judge James Robertson ruled that 1) prosecutors unconstitutionally forced Hubbell to incriminate himself (by using documents they got from him under a grant of immunity) and 2) Starr exceeded his authority by going "six degrees of relationship" beyond the Whitewater S & L case to nail Hubbell on the far more recent tax charge.
During Flytrap, many Republicans conveniently abandoned their objections to wide-ranging sex harassment litigation, endorsing broad discovery in order to nail Clinton.