>Personally, I just can't believe the millions of dollars Ken Starr has >spent (and he is being investigated also for leaking info to the press, >you know, which violates the oaths of HIS office). What the Clinton apologists fail to recognize is that his own AG, Janet Reno, is the only person who can request an Independent Counsel appointment, and has approved, along with the Special Division (that august panel of three federal appellate court judges -- they're the ones that hand-picked Starr), the expansions of Starr's investigation into Clinton's misdeeds (the least of which is his alleged subornation of perjury in the Lewinsky debacle). If she ever felt her chief was being unduely persecuted, she could have Starr removed (assuming she could come up with a "good reason"). Of course, none of this is to say that the Office of the Independent Counsel is constitutional. Read all about it at <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/counsel/office/>, one of many sites devoted to the OIC. With that said, I must state that this entire freak show breaks my libertarian heart. I love to see any politician sweat (I hate 'em all equally), but I find it greatly dismaying that people are so easily distracted from the real abridgements and usurpations that happen daily on Capitol Hill by something so relatively insignificant. But none of this is new in any way (actually, that's the way it supposed to work). George Washington warned us about the dangers of faction. Oh, well. As long as our economy is "booming" and we're well-entertained (bread and circuses for the masses)... �--**-****---- Paul Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaparral.los-angeles.ca.us/ "For any person to become aware of how little he knows -- not a very difficult attainment -- is a sure way to reduce the number of authoritarians by one. Who knows? The awareness might even catch on. And, if it did? Millions of us would forsake society's most corrosive pastime -- meddling in the affairs of others -- meddling not only through political apparatus, but personally. Millions of us could then concentrate on the wholly rewarding venture of freeing ourselves from our own fears, our own superstitions, our own imperfections, our own ignorance. The individual human spirit, neglected while we play the futile and authoritarian game of imposing our wills on others, cries out for its freedom." - Leonard E. Read, 1962 ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
