Monday, November 16, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Nation/World
Starr to face Congress' scrutiny
Prosecutor's tactics draw critics' protests
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For the first time in his four-year investigation, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr publicly will lay out his case against President Clinton — in a congressional forum riven with partisan politics.
Starr's motives and tactics, as much as the president's actions, will be the focus of the House Judi-
Clary Committee hearing set for Thursday.
Democrats plan to portray the independent counsel as a right-wing prosecutor on a rampage against Clinton in concert with the pres
ident's political opponents. For Republicans, the hearing represents the best opportunity for Starr to make his case forcefully against Clinton.
Starr: Will go before a congressional panel.
In his impeachment report to the House, Starr accused the president
of 11 offenses that he considers impeachable and said there was a pattern of lies by Clinton and his loyalists in the Monica Lewinsky case.
"I think his actions deserve all the scrutiny he's getting, but I'm not at all sure Starr won't do well," said former Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh, a strong critic of Starr for pursuing the Lewinsky allegations.
Starr is no stranger to tough questions in a tense environment. As President Bush's solicitor general, he took them for years from Supreme Court justices. Nonetheless, he is considered vulnerable on several points:
— He investigated the Lewinsky matter before getting authorization from the Justice Department, having Lewinsky's friend, Linda Tripp, wear a body wire Jan. 13 to record a conversation with the former intern. Starr could defend the action as within his discretion as a prosecutor, even though Attorney General Janet Reno didn't approve an expansion until Jan. 16.
— When Starr's prosecutors confronted Lewinsky Jan. 16, she asked to speak to her lawyer. Fearful that targets of their probe might be tipped off, Starr's investigators told Lewinsky that any deal for immunity from prosecution would
be null and void if she called her attorney. Justice Department regulations say a person's lawyer must be present for discussions involving an immunity deal.
Tripp, the prosecutor's star witness, who triggered the Lewinsky probe by secretly taping the former intern's admissions of a presidential affair, is herself under scrutiny. Starr is probing whether her tapes were tampered with and whether Tripp lied about them when she testified the tapes she turned over to prosecutors were originals. The FBI has concluded some of the tapes are duplicates.
— After working with Starr's office, Tripp provided specifics about Lewinsky's relationship with Clinton to Paula Jones' lawyers, who then caught the president off guard with detailed questions when he testified in the lawsuit Jan. 17. Democrats wonder why Starr's office didn't stop Tripn from talking to outsiders. Some Democratic critics have suggested Starr may have tried to entrap the president.
Clinton: Iraq must accept inspections
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Iraq narrowly avoided punishing military strikes by dropping its defiance of the United Nations, but it now must cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors, without conditions, President Clinton said yesterday.
"Iraq has backed down, but that is not enough. Now Iraq must live up to its obligations," Clinton said in a morning appearance in the White House briefing room yesterday.
If Saddam Hussein's government fails to keep its word, overwhelming force remains an option, the president
warned. "We remain ready to act," he said.
"The return of the inspectors ... is the best outcome, because they have been and they remain the most effective tool to uncover, destroy and prevent Iraq from
The president said that Iraq must allow inspectors "unfettered access" to view any site they wish; it must turn over all relevant documents on chemical and biological weapons production; it must not interfere with the inspectors themselves.
rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them," Clinton said.
Clinton: Said Iraq must comply unconditionally.
Clinton acknowledged that deep skepticism surrounds Saddam's promises, but he argued that holding back from a military strike is the best long-term strategy.
"If we take military action, we can significantly degrade Saddam Hussein's ability to develop weapons of mass destruction and to deliver them," Clinton said. "But that would also mark the end of UNSCOM," the inspection team.
Clinton said that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan shares his understanding of Iraq's obligations.
At the United Nations, Annan said that Clinton's response "will be welcomed by the international community."
Iraq's first offer, which Berger rebuffed Saturday as unacceptable, was "perfectly unclear," Berger said. But after the rejection, he said, Saddam's government sent two additional letters that were very clearly written and dropped all conditions to weapons inspections. Iraq averted attack by mere hours.
He said that the U.S. military will "maintain a steady force" in the region "that is more than adequate to deal with Saddam Hussein."
Before Clinton's announcement, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoon, said Iraq will cooperate fully with U.N. inspectors.
Hamdoon said that Hussein had stopped his government's cooperation with the inspectors out of frustration about U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq, but the resulting international pressure forced a change of strategy.
"We can now move ahead," said U.N. weapons inspections chief Richard Butter, interviewed on CNN. The team that departed Iraq last week remains in Bahrain and would be able to return to work within 24 hours, he said.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair consulted for hours with Clinton and U.N. officials.
By Thanksgiving, more than 4,000 additional Army troops, an aircraft-carrier battle group and a Marine amphibious task force are scheduled to arrive in the Persian Gulfregion.
The carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and 22 other vessels already are there. The number of aircraft is to rise to almost 400 and the number of troops to nearly 45,000 men and women.
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