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Subject: The Starr Detractors

			The Starr Detractors        

			 by J. Orlin Grabbe

	Clinton, who previously sent a private, threatening 
note to Kenneth Starr, was interviewed on "The News 
Hour with Jim Lehrer."  Clinton said there's "a lot of 
evidence to support" the notion Starr is out to get him.  
(Does this mean Starr is doing his job?)

	But Clinton cited his ex-lover Susan McDougal to 
the effect that Whitewater prosecutors promised to go easy 
on her if she would testify against both him and his wife.  
"They wanted her to say something bad about us, whether 
it was the truth or not. And if it was false, it would still be 
perfectly all right," Clinton said.   

	Well, Clinton is just squirming in his chair and 
starting to crack.  Susan McDougal is in jail for contempt 
of court for refusing to answer the questions of a grand 
jury--not for anything Starr said or did.

	Susan McDougal is, of course, the convicted felon 
who was recently seen on TV promoting a new trend in 
women's fashion:  Prison Chic.

	She gave an interview from her jail cell saying that 
under no circumstances would she bargain with dat bad ol' 
Kenneth Starr.  But behind the scenes she has been 
begging to do just that.  Starr, however, has no reason to 
talk to her.  What should he?  She won't answer the grand 
jury's questions, and has moreover appeared on the Larry 
King Live show lying about what happened, making up a 
supposed deal which never in fact existed.  Her 
explanations regarding that money embezzled from 
conductor Zubin Mehta are likely to be equally fanciful.

	Then there are all those blind purveyors of 
censored news who tell us they have "sources" who say 
there will be no more indictments before the November 
election.  These sources are, of course, just setting Starr up 
for the charge he is "playing politics" when he announces 
his indictments.  In other words, these "sources" want to 
play politics and deny voters the information they need to 
make an informed decision in November.  But Starr has no 
intention of waiting until the November election to 
announce more indictments.  

	You can add Reuter's news service to the list I 
cited in "Five Indictments of the Mass Media":

	Monday September 23

	WASHINGTON (Reuter) - With six 
	weeks to go before the election, 
	President Clinton may avoid what some 
	of his political advisers once feared most 
	-- new damaging charges involving his 
	Whitewater dealings.

	Sources who have closely followed the 
	probe by Whitewater independent 
	counsel Kenneth Starr said they do not 
	expect him to seek any major 
	indictments against top Clinton 
	administration officials before the Nov. 
	5 election.

	Finally, the ever idiotic USA Today goes along 
with the charade that says Clinton has the power to pardon 
fellow co-conspirators.  (This subject has been well 
researched, and Clinton no such power.  Both Clinton and 
the Justice Department have been informed of this fact.)
	
	President Clinton said Monday he hasn't 
	ruled out granting pardons to convicted 
	Whitewater felons Jim Guy Tucker and 
	Jim and Susan McDougal.

	"I have regular meetings on (pardons) 
	and I review those cases as they come 
	up and after there's an evaluation done 
	by the Justice Department," Clinton said 
	in an interview on The News Hour with 
	Jim Lehrer Monday. "That's how I think 
	it should be handled."

Uh huh.  And then the fabricated, but obligatory, no-
indictment claim:

	Whitewater prosecutors continue to 
	indicate there will be no major 
	indictments before the November 
	presidential election. That is being 
	interpreted to mean no indictments of 
	Clinton or first lady Hillary Rodham 
	Clinton.

Finally, drawing a leaf from Susan McDougal's cry-baby 
coloring book, USA Today comes up with a new 
Conspiracy Theory.

	The pressure on Susan McDougal is a 
	calculated tactic by prosecutors to build 
	a case against the Clintons by first 
	obtaining oral evidence from both 
	McDougals and others in Little Rock.

	Once sufficient oral evidence has been 
	collected, the Whitewater staff will try 
	and corroborate it with documents. The 
	strategy was settled on during a secret 
	summit meeting in Washington Aug. 21-
	23 among Starr and his top prosecutors.

Imagine that:  a prosecutor collecting oral and written 
evidence.  

	Well, I hear Starr has another secret strategy.  He's 
going to convict some criminals and put them all in jail.  
Let the indictments begin.  

September 24, 1996
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