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USA Today says that while papering Washington and elsewhere with subpoenas, Kenneth Starr was working to persuade Monica Lewinsky to testify against President Clinton.
For fear of subpoenas and legal bills, the press secretary simply can't talk to the president about Flytrap.
Judiciary will probably, the papers report, vote on party lines to issue subpoenas today bearing on prior Dept. of Justice investigations into Clinton's 1996 fund-raising.
Arlen Specter's remark yesterday on CNN that with the latest flap, the White House "may have crossed the line of obstruction of justice" is quoted by USAT and the WP . The Post points out that such tapes were ostensibly covered by congressional committee subpoenas going back to last January, while the WSJ adds that Senate investigators had previously been told that no such tapes existed.
Rehnquist, who handles emergency matters for the Washington federal courts (and who, the papers note, is coming into town from Innsbruck, Austria, where he was teaching a summer course) is getting the case of what to do about subpoenas issued by Kenneth Starr to several members of President Clinton's Secret Service protective detail because yesterday a federal appeals court unanimously refused to quash them.