Give It Up, Ken: Law’s Against You

The campaign bookkeeping for next year’s New York Senate race

is already looking complicated, thanks to Kenneth Starr. According to published

reports, the independent counsel plans to stay in business long enough to issue

a “blistering” report about Hillary Rodham Clinton. For Republican election

lawyers, the ticklish question will be whether they must include Read More

Dash Bashed Me, but I Was Right

Remember Sam Dash, the former “ethics counsel” to the independent counsel? Back in April 1996, he publicly excoriated me for quoting him (inaccurately, as he later claimed untruthfully) about his role in restraining the overzealous impulses of the prosecutors working for Kenneth Starr. I quoted him saying: “If I weren’t there and I wouldn’t have Read More