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
facts telling
We must know that thewitness is telling the truth. Give us transparency. Give us the facts.
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a great gentleman, a real Southern gentleman and throughout our dealings with him he was always gracious and kind, and I think in these later years he wanted to end on a high moral note and end by telling the truth ... so we miss him.
duty proper
I think it was proper what I did. I think I had a duty to do what I did.
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It isn't in the interest of the First Amendment for distortions, lies about career civil servants to be spread about. We don't know who is spreading them about. But lies and distortions have no place in our First Amendment universe.
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I think he inspires just tremendous affection and loyalty by ... a wide range of people,
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I would say it is utterly incomplete and grossly misleading,
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I think it is fair to say that the Act has been a worthwhile experiment. Like most experiments that are professionally conducted, it has yielded significant results, ... The results, I believe, support this conclusion: Jurisdiction and authority over these cases ought to be returned to the Justice Department. And who will oversee them? The Congress, the press and the public.
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My people have assured me ... that they had no indication whatsoever of any involvement (between Tripp and Jones' attorneys,)
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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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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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We were guided by Sam Dash, who had very strong views on that.
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Unfortunately, we have seen already that a duly appointed career prosecutor, a career prosecutor, has already come under criticism and I think that's very unfortunate, ... Let's depoliticize it. Let's say that is now in the hands of very distinguished career prosecutor, Bob Ray.
partisan vulnerable
With no institutional defender, independent counsels are especially vulnerable to partisan attack,
further gathered information ongoing
further information gathered as part of your ongoing investigation.