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>From WaPo:
> Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who investigated whether
> senior Bush administration officials illegally leaked the name of a
> CIA operative for political payback, has spent $1.4 million in his
> probe over the past three years, his office reported yesterday — a
> figure that establishes him as remarkably frugal in the ranks of
> recent special investigators.
>
> Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr’s investigations of President
> Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica S. Lewinsky and his ties to the
> failed Whitewater land investment cost $71.5 million and took eight
> years. Independent Counsel David M. Barrett’s examination of Clinton
> housing secretary Henry G. Cisneros over an extramarital affair and
> potential illegal payments cost $21 million and lasted 10 years.
--ravi
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