Ken Starr
Ken Starr
Kenneth Winston "Ken" Starris an American lawyer who has also been a federal judge and U.S. Solicitor General. He is the former President and Chancellor of Baylor University, and currently holds the Louise L. Morrison Chair of Constitutional Law at Baylor University Law School. He carried out a controversial investigation of members of the Clinton administration...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth21 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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The grand jury is trying to get facts, evaluate facts. I can't comment on whether a privilege has been invoked but a privilege is a legal right that may be subject of litigation if one is invoked,
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Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
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I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.
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In late 1997, we considered whether this evidence justified a referral to Congress, ... We drafted a report. But we concluded that it would be inconsistent with the statutory standard because of the difficulty of establishing the truth with a sufficient degree of confidence.
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To reduce the unfortunate personalization of the process in particular in the wake of the inherently divisive impeachment proceedings, the wiser course, I believe, is for another individual to head the investigation.
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Either Monica Lewinsky lied to the grand jury, or President Clinton lied ... under any rational view of the evidence, the president lied,
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extraordinarily important and that I failed to fully take that into account in terms of what I view and still do as essentially as a legal process and judicial process.
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We try to carry on this investigation in a most professional way,
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We contacted Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder within 48 hours after Ms. Tripp provided us information ... About Ms. Tripp's tapes and the questions concerning their legality under state law. About the consensual FBI recording of Ms. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky. About the indications that Vernon Jordan was providing employment assistance to a witness who had the potential to harm the president ... We discussed jurisdiction. We noted that it is in everyone's interest to avoid time-consuming jurisdictional challenges.
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moving very quickly and we've made very significant progress.
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no one is entitled to lie under oath simply because he or she does not like the questions or because he believes the case is frivolous or financially motivated or politically motivated.
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On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts. He touched her genitals ... bringing her to orgasm on two occasions,
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Since your last appearance before the grand jury in September 1996 we have been able to obtain a copy of this check and confirm it's your handwriting on the check. You signed this check, correct?
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Major decisions during the Lewinsky investigation have not been easy. And given the hurricane force winds swirling about us, we were well aware that no matter what decision we made, criticism would come from somewhere.