> The only thing worse than liking Clinton's politics is the main
> practical effect MoveOn has so far had -- the death of the
> Independent Council law that came out of Watergate.
Let me get this straight:
(1) The independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation, Robert Fiske, was ready to exonerate the Clintons of any wrongdoing in the Whitewater non-event. (We now know indisputably that there WAS NOTHING THERE, that in fact the Clintons had lost money on the deal, etc. But perhaps this little detail isn't important to Michael "The Facts Don't Matter" Dawson?)
(2) The panel of judges in charge of the independent counsel turns around and removes Fiske, replacing him with Kenneth Starr. The lead judge on the panel happens to be a Jesse Helms Republican.
(3) Starr himself can't find fuck-all to nail the Clintons with on the Whitewater nonsense, so he goes on a fishing expedition, looking for anyone who had passing contact with a twelfth cousin of the Clintons on the pseudo-legal rationale that these people would know something about Whitewater (which -- though I know it doesn't matter to Michael Dawson -- turns out to have been a non-event).
(4) Starr uses this rationale to expand the probe into the Lewinsky affair.
(5) Clinton says he didn't bang Lewinsky as any sensible person would have said in a similar situation, given that Starr had no business asking in the first place. Clinton is subsequently impeached for perjury and then acquitted after it becomes clear that the public (with the usual supermajorities among African-Americans and other segments of the population who actually understand the way the world works) rejects the whole thing and thinks it a farce.
>From this, Michael Dawson concludes that it was Clinton's defenders who
killed the independent counsel system. Got any more Scaife talking points
for us, Michael?
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