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Subject: The Other Starr Detractors

		The Other Starr Detractors        

		   by J. Orlin Grabbe

	What do Bill Clinton, Susan McDougal, Ambrose 
Evans-Pritchard, and Chris Ruddy have in common?  A 
ready, self-righteous proclivity to dump on the Special 
Prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
     
	Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Chris Ruddy 
paraded out a pet witness to the disposal of Vince Foster's 
body and demanded Starr drop everything and devote 
maximum attention to their journalistic side show.  But 
when Starr didn't jump to the bark of these mighty 
reporters, Ruddy slammed Starr with the comments of an 
un-named senator:

	Starr's possible passivity with the Foster 
	case seems to have taken some notice on 
	Capitol Hill. A leading Republican 
	member of the Senate's "Whitewater" 
	Banking Committee said Thursday night 
	that he was "disappointed" with Starr's 
	work so far. The senator, previously 
	believed to have been a supporter of 
	Starr's, said Starr's work was 
	"embarrassing" on the Foster case.  The 
	senator suggested that Starr is motivated 
	by a desire to be on the Supreme Court. 
	He added, however, that any notion of 
	Starr getting on the court "is finished." 
	("Park witness to appear before Starr 
	grand jury in Foster investigation", 
	Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,  Oct. 29, 
	1995.) 

	I've consistently defended Chris Ruddy from the 
likes of 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace, and will continue to 
reserve judgment.  But British journalist Ambrose Evans-
Pritchard (AEP) is another matter.  

	According to him, us colonials need to be lectured 
about our news standards, and it's up to the British press to 
tell us about the CIA and Mena and Bill Clinton's cocaine 
habits.  
	
	Really?  I seem to recall that Roger Morris did a 
pretty fine treatment of the Mena coke-for-arms scene in 
Partners in Power. I also recall writing something about 
Bill Clinton's cocaine habits myself--based on current 
sources, not years-old Arkansas trooper statements. And 
the San Jose Mercury seems to be doing a pretty good job 
of taking on the CIA's involvement in the drug trade--
without any help from the British press.

	In fact, there is a whole alternative news industry in 
America that has probed the CIA's drug dealing, not to 
mention the Internet, which is hardly the province of the 
British press.
	
	And, yes, you'll find AEP quite willing to discuss 
money-laundering in Arkansas.  But you won't find him 
discussing money-laundering at the London Metals  Exchange. 
Or asking questions about how much gold the Bank of England 
has had to turn over to Korea in the Korean arms scandal.  
Or documenting the amount of drug money that branches of 
British banks have taken in, in the Caribbean.

	Instead, you will find AEP, who has strong MI6 
connections, off gathering information on U.S. militia 
members.  Who is he turning this information over to?

	You will find AEP blasting away about the 
changing colors of the supposed "suicide" gun of Vince 
Foster, but strangely mute about the NSA notebooks that 
Deborah Gorham put in Vince Foster's safe.  You'll find 
him out dumping on the real Vince Foster story as told by 
Jim Norman and myself, and saying that the Angel of 
Death--one of Starr's chief sources for evidence--has no 
credibility.  

	You won't find AEP retracting that disinformation 
he got from Clarence Harp, or explaining why he insists a 
Swiss bank account number found in the trunk of Barry 
Seal's car is an aircraft number.

	For the bottom line is that AEP is a propagandist 
with a foreign agenda who likes to bitch about what is 
wrong with America.  But the last thing he wants to see is 
someone like Kenneth Starr who is actually dealing with 
the problems. 

	When Kenneth Starr indicts Hillary Clinton and 
goes after Bill, and leaves Susan sitting in the slammer, 
don't expect to hear any apologies from  AEP and Chris 
Ruddy.

September 25, 1996
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