Originally posted by vraiblonde
Search the web and find out who appoints a special prosecutor and who authorizes them to do an investigation.
I shall await your return with baited breath.
Ok Vrai -- here is why I believe Kenn Star was biased... this may take a while for you to read through but I await in baited breath your take on this analaysis
House Rules Chairman Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.) (a Republican) drafted a resolution that established the rules for handling independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation. Another Republican Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) allowed Solomon, not the Judiciary Committee, to set the rules for the investigation. Smell anything fishy??
He was not acting as an independent counsel but one of the Right Wing ¡V whose philosopy was don¡¦t mind the log in my eye as I¡¦m judging the specks in yours.
Kenneth Starr conducted a witch hunt on Clinton while hiding skeleton¡¦s in his own closet. Congress allowed the contravention of the statute to go on, in order to pursue their own political plans.
Here are some more facts that leads one to believe ¡V Mr. Starr himself was indeed going after Clinton and a republican ¡V for pete sake his firm and he at one time represented the Republican National Convention ¡V here is some more facts --
1. If Mr. Bush had remained president, Mr. Starr would have retained an important Washington position (Solicitor General); reportedly, Mr. Starr was to be recommended for a Supreme Court appointment.
2. Mr. Starr is a tobacco company lawyer [Phillip Morris and Brown & Williamson], and what better way to blunt the thrust of an anti-tobacco president than this? (and yes, I am a smoker.
3. Mr. Starr, almost immediately after being appointed Special Prosecutor indulged himself in what most people would see as a little conflict-of-interest. His Kirkland & Ellis law firm, from which he did not severe ties, was being sued by the RTC (Resolution Trust Corporation) for its connection to a failed bank.
„h The president of the thrift, who was later convicted of multiple fraud charges, arranged for nearly a million dollars listed on the thrift's ledger as deferred income tax payments to be pocketed instead by certain directors and stockholders.
„h Mr. Starr's firm knew the money wasn't going for income taxes, and the RTC said the lawyers had fiduciary liability and ought to make up the loss to the American taxpayers.
As one of his first acts after being appointed, Starr started using his unparalleled powers as a special prosecutor to begin investigating the activities of the same RTC officials who were involved in the decision to sue his law firm.
„h The RTC officials were looking into the conduct of Jean Lewis, the aggressive Republican bookkeeper at the RTC who was pressing for charges to be filed against the Arkansas Democrats before the 1992 election and sending tips to reporters and Republicans in congress. Starr opened a grand jury investigation of the RTC officials who were reviewing Lewis' conduct. Oops. Isn't it a coincidence that they just happened to be the people suing Starr's firm.
Starr's law firm settled out of court in January of 1996 for $325,000.00 -- $700,000.00 less than the RTC had predicted it could have gotten in a trial. Starr said that he did not know about the case -- which the RTC had filed in May of 1993 -- until October 1995, even though he served on the firm's management committee (as someone else said: "Yeah, his secretary forgot to tell him that there was a one million dollar lawsuit against his company."). This from the same man that threatened imprisonment to people because they could not remember details from a single afternoon twenty years in the past. [Source: The Nation March 18, 1996; New Yorker April 22, 1996, The Arkansas Writers' Project 1997]
4. Mr. Starr represents right-wing groups that bankrolled the virulent attacks on Clinton - one being the Bradley Foundation, which funnels money into anti-Clinton groups like the American Spectator. [Ernest Dumas, The Arkansas Writers' Project; other sources]
5. Mr. Starr represents the Republican National Committee.
6. Mr. Starr contradicted himself on whether he had tried to block a two-year-old investigation and prosection of his star witness against Gov. Jim Guy Tucker (he finally admitted to having done so).
„h Judge David L. Hale was being investigated on numerous charges, ranging from embezzlement through framing one of his employees that was about to come forward with incriminating details. There were many serious charges involved and Judge Hale knew that he was in trouble. Consequently, he arranged to testify for Kenneth Starr's grand jury in exchange for a light sentence. The IC strongarmed the prosecution into dropping its case against Hale. Details can be found in my Other Voices area.
7. It has been found by Judge G. Thomas Eisele that there is at least a prima facie case that Starr had a grave conflict of interest in seeking indictments against President Clinton and the First Lady. Starr at one time had accepted the deanship of a California law school and public policy foundation that owe their existence to the philanthropy of Richard Mellon Scaife, the multimillionaire who funds anti-Clinton organizations. Francis T. Mandanici, a Connecticut public defender suggests that Starr has helped Scaife's enterprises and Clinton's Republican enemies by dragging out the Whitewater investigation for years and that the California jobs were a hidden reward. [Ernest Dumas, September 26, 1997 The Arkansas Writer's Project]
8. Mr. Starr, who claims that he is only pursuing the matter to determine whether there was perjury or evidence of suborning perjury has already been found guilty of both. The courts have determined that Mr. Starr deliberately leaked information about his investigation. He then denied having done so, and apparently instructed his attorneys and investigators to lie about it also. Some examples of the leaks:
„h First Lady Fingerprints found on billing records. However, fingerprints can last up to 20 years, so it is unclear when the First Lady handled these documents [Newsweek, May 5, 1996]
„h GOP Senator on Whitewater Committee used Foster briefcase as prop. On the first day of the Republican Senate Whitewater hearings, Senator Frank Murkowski used the late Vince Foster's briefcase as a prop. The briefcase was obtained from Starr's office.
„h Top Official in Starr's office described odds of First Lady indictment as "at least fifty-fifty." In an April 1996 article, "a top official with the investigation" described the odds in favor of indicting First Lady Hillary Clinton as "at least fifty-fifty". [New Yorker April 22, 1996]
„h And more... (see part 2 of this post)
as I have yet to see you post anything that I agree with you on.
I knew I was born with this!!
