Ray’s Getting Ready to Smear First Lady

Anybody who remains unconvinced at this late date that the Whitewater prosecution is strictly a partisan production need only turn their gaze toward New York, where the final act of this long-running legal farce is about to be staged.

The action will resume when a press release on the stationery of the Office of Independent Read More

Ray Can’t Find Words to Exonerate Hillary

On June 22, the fax machine spit out a press release of slightly less than two pages from the Office of the Independent Counsel regarding the long-delayed conclusion of the investigation “commonly known as the Travel Office matter.” It was a statement from independent counsel Robert W. Ray, the successor to Kenneth W. Starr, informing Read More

Vengeance Is Mine, Says Starr’s Successor

The other day Robert Ray-the prosecutor appointed to succeed former independent counsel Kenneth Starr in the six-year-old Whitewater-Foster suicide-Travel Office-F.B.I. files-Rose Law Firm files-Monica Lewinsky-Kathleen Willey investigation-announced that he may seek to indict Bill Clinton after the President leaves office next January. Evidently he is in no hurry to complete the legally required reports about Read More

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

Eliot Spitzer Nearly Gave Hillary $2,000, but Changed His Mind

In late October, State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer joined many other top state Democrats as an honorary co-chair of the “Broadway for Hillary” birthday bash for First Lady Hillary Clinton. Mr. Spitzer, a wealthy real estate heir who bankrolled his successful campaign to the tune of $9 million, pledged $2,000 for Mrs. Clinton’s prospective Senate Read More

His Reputation Soiled, Starr Finally Departs

At long last, Kenneth Starr has returned to private life, but not without a few final gestures of contempt for the public. He is leaving, but his political inquisition lives on.

To complete his appointed tasks as independent counsel, including a report on his five-year investigation of the President, Mr. Starr has installed an associate Read More