Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ken Starr has been negotiating with a former senior Justice Department official to conduct an internal investigation into allegations about the credibility of Whitewater witness David Hale, Neil Lewis at the NEW YORK TIMES is now reporting for Tuesday editions. Starr is considering hiring Michael Shaheen, the former head of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, according to Lewis, to conduct the investigation of the investigation. The news breaks as Clinton lawyer David Kendall's letter to Starr, stating that Starr could not investigate his own witness impartially, picks up media steam Kendall wrote: "It is difficult to imagine how you could credibly lead an investigation into possible improper payments from an individual who is helping to finance your future activities." Referring to the White House's Richard Mellon Scaife/Starr/Pepperdine scenario. -------------------------- ARKANSAS FED JUDGE POPS SEN. FAIRCLOTH FOR INTIMIDATION BEFORE WHITEWATER RULING, ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION A federal judge in Arkansas has taken the rare step of publicly complaining about political pressure he says he received during a Whitewater case! Judge Henry Woods now says Sen. Lauch Faircloth [R-N.C.] tried to intimidate him before he made a key 1995 ruling in the Whitewater court case. Judge Woods has requested an investigation of why Faircloth's chief staffer requested the judge's financial disclosure forms two weeks before that ruling -- which Woods said was Faircloth's way of sending a harassing message. -- Two rules in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. 2. Subscribe/Unsubscribe, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the message enter: subscribe/unsubscribe law-issues
