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The Starr Report: Grounds for Impeachment? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT |
| Author: David C. Slade |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,930 Words, 14,605 Characters |
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House Document 105--310 may or may not lead to the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, but it will most certainly affect the legal, political, and social fabric of this country for years to come. Although most Americans would like the whole thing to go away and let the country move on, it isn't quite so simple.vbcrlf By submitting his report to Congress, Independent Counsel Starr has activated the constitutional impeachment machinery, which is difficult to stop once started. Officially titled the Referral From Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in Conformity With the Requirements of Title 28, United States Code, Section 595(c), it certainly contains "substantial and credible information" of scandalous and punishable behavior ...
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...Independent Counsel Act, improve upon the framers of the Constitution? Or should the act just be scrapped altogether? Has the Starr report set the media standard for private-life scrutiny of candidates for public office? Where do we go from here? Certainly this is much more than was bargained for when the investigation of an Arkansas land deal known as Whitewater was started four years ago. vbcrlf
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