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Capitol Hill Blue
Clinton Calls Starr Probe 'Bogus'
January 26, 2000
By ANNE GEARAN
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the eve of his last State of the Union
address, President Clinton said Wednesday the independent counsel
investigation that shadowed most of his presidency was ``bogus,''
but he apologized anew for the Monica Lewinsky debacle.
``First of all, I made one mistake. I apologized for it, I paid a
high price for it and I've done my best to atone for it by being
a good president,'' Clinton said in a television interview.
``But I believe we also endured what history will clearly record
was a bogus investigation, where there was nothing to Whitewater
or these other charges.''
Clinton asserted that Republicans in Congress used the six-year
Whitewater investigation as a political cudgel, even when they
knew neither Clinton nor first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had
done anything wrong.
``They knew it was a bunch of bull. They had no evidence,''
Clinton said in an interview with PBS host Jim Lehrer. The
interview was taped at the White House Wednesday afternoon and
broadcast Wednesday evening.
Without naming names, Clinton said one Republican senator
admitted as much in a private conversation during the Whitewater
hearings begun in 1995 by then-New York Republican Sen. Alfonse
D'Amato.
``He said, 'Of course you didn't do anything wrong. That's not
the purpose of this,''' Clinton said.
The president contended that a little distance from the Kenneth
Starr investigation has borne out his side of the argument.
``Now rational retrospectives are beginning to come out where
people that have no connection to me (are) talking about what an
abuse of power it was and what a threat to the American system it
was,'' Clinton said.
After speaking hopefully of his record of economic expansion and
smaller advances in health care and other areas, Clinton said he
ultimately cannot control how his presidency is recorded for
history.
And in an awkward exchange, Clinton said he does not know whether
he might have avoided impeachment had he been more forthcoming
with Lehrer once before.
Lehrer interviewed Clinton two years ago, just as the Lewinsky
scandal was breaking. In his first public remarks on the scandal,
Clinton then roundly denied any improper relationship with Ms.
Lewinsky, a former White House intern whose story of White House
sexual encounters with Clinton ultimately led to his impeachment
in the House and acquittal in the Senate last year.
``The thing I regret most - except for doing the wrong thing - is
misleading the American people about it,'' Clinton said. ``I do
not regret the fact that I fought the independent counsel.''
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