The Daily Telegraph Article RatingKenneth Starr, lawyer who led the drive to impeach President Clinton over the 'Zippergate' affair - obituary
Sep 14, 2022 View Original Article
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| "In 1996, a month before the presidential election, he appeared with Pat Robertson, the Christian-Right leader and Clinton-baiter, at a celebration of the 10th aiversary of the founding of Robertson's law school." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "At Sam Houston High School he acquired a new passion - politics - and distributed campaign literature for Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "At Sam Houston High School he acquired a new passion - politics - and distributed campaign literature for Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "He spent a year as a clerk at the Supreme Court with the conservative Republican Chief Justice William Burger, and was about to be made a partner at Gibson in 1980 when his mentor, William French Smith, was appointed attorney general to Ronald Reagan; Starr followed him to Washington." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Nor did his investigation please the Clinton-baiters." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In addition, he allegedly leaked confidential grand jury testimony to reporters; pushed for the videotaping of Clinton's interrogation, virtually assuring that it would become public even though grand jury testimony is normally held in camera; and sent a report to Congress omitting Monica Lewinsky's statement that the president had never asked her to lie and that she was not promised a job in exchange for her silence." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Originally assigned to examine the Clintons' property dealings, he began investigating the president's relationship with Monica LewinskyKeeth Starr, who has died aged 76, was the independent counsel whose investigations into the extramarital relationships of President Bill Clinton, the so-called Zippergate affair, outlined no fewer than 11 grounds for impeachment, including obstruction of justice, abuse of power and perjury." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "He later expanded the inquiry into other areas, including the extramarital affair that Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "As such the Starr Report did not on its own provide the basis on which the Congress could make a judgment about Clinton, and the fact that it consisted largely of Lewinsky-related allegations, much of it hearsay from witnesses whose motives were often suspect, enabled Clinton's allies to present the report as a hatchet job designed to humiliate the president, and Starr as a deranged puritan with an obsessive and prurient interest in the president's sex life." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "As such the Starr Report did not on its own provide the basis on which the Congress could make a judgment about Clinton, and the fact that it consisted largely of Lewinsky-related allegations, much of it hearsay from witnesses whose motives were often suspect, enabled Clinton's allies to present the report as a hatchet job designed to humiliate the president, and Starr as a deranged puritan with an obsessive and prurient interest in the president's sex life." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Acosta - who resigned in 2019 as labor secretary under Donald Trump over criticism of the deal, after Epstein was arrested again on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors - claimed he had agreed because he had been told that Epstein belonged to intelligence." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Whitewater, and other scandals which had sustained an entire Clinton conspiracy theory industry for years, ended by producing no charges whatsoever." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "There was probably some truth in all the motivations ascribed to Starr - that he disliked Clinton, felt a civic and religious duty, was bored by his job and had trouble saying no." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In 1998 Starr filed what became known as the Starr Report, in which he alleged that Clinton had lied about the existence of the affair during a sworn deposition and dwelt at length on the excruciatingly embarrassing details of how he satisfied his sexual urges in the shadowy recesses of the White House." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "In fact the decision to extend the investigation had not been taken by Starr but by a three-judge panel appointed to oversee independent-counsel law, adopted after the Watergate scandal in 1974, in consultation with the attorney general Janet Reno, a Clinton appointee." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Starr's allegations forced Clinton to admit his sins on national television and opened the door for his impeachment in 1998 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Twenty-four years earlier, when Leon Jaworski, the special counsel in the Watergate inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon, had presented his evidence, he provided no analysis and no conclusions." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "In January 2020 Starr was part of the legal team that successfully defended President Donald Trump in impeachment proceedings, apparently bearing no grudge against the man who in 1999, during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, had described him variously as a lunatic, a disaster, a total wacko and totally off his rocker." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In January 2020 Starr was part of the legal team that successfully defended President Donald Trump in impeachment proceedings, apparently bearing no grudge against the man who in 1999, during the Clinton impeachment proceedings, had described him variously as a lunatic, a disaster, a total wacko and totally off his rocker." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
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