By Joe Conason 4/20/99 12:00am

Ditch Ken Starr, Not the Office

It is tempting to agree with Kenneth Starr that the Independent Counsel Act should be allowed to expire this summer. That is what he told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee the other day, as the committee members pondered whether to reauthorize the act, and he should certainly know. Aside from being a respected constitutional lawyer, Read More

By Joe Conason 3/08/99 12:00am

Starr’s Abuses Show Flaws in Counsel Law

The past year’s carnival of national scandal-with all its noisy displays of lechery and hypocrisy, leaking and lying-left few public figures with their dignity intact. Particularly in the nation’s capital, there aren’t many who today seem wiser rather than more foolish. But now, as Congress considers what to do about the statute that created this Read More