Volume 45, Number 4 · March 5, 1998
Kenneth Starr and the Independent Counsel Act
By Lawrence E. Walsh
Some observers have been shocked by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's prosecutorial intrusion into the private life of President Clinton at a critical moment of our international affairs. They deplore his use of his powers in order to pursue possible misstatements in an ongoing private civil lawsuit. Such disapproving observers divide between those who blame Starr himself, those who blame the Independent Counsel Act, and those who blame both. How are we to assess such claims?
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