By Joe Conason 7/17/00 12:00am

Reversal of Fortune for Starr’s Spokesman

Whatever he now feels about his former role as spokesman for the Office of Independent Counsel, Charles Bakaly III surely has fresh appreciation of what it means to undertake a “thankless task.” Having entered the O.I.C.’s service in 1998 to improve the dismal image of Kenneth W. Starr and his prosecutors, poor Mr. Bakaly now Read More

By Joe Conason 3/20/00 12:00am

File This ‘-Gate’ Under ‘Dead’

If news reports are to be believed, we are now close to the conclusion of that long-running political hoax known as “Filegate.” According to a story in The New York Times on March 13-which ran on an inside page, of course-the Office of Independent Counsel is about to release its final report on the 900 Read More