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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**Breaking** Ken Starr (Former Independent Counsel investigated Clinton) has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/politics/ken-starr-dead.htmlKen Starr, Independent Counsel in Clinton Investigation, Dies at 76
Mr. Starrs family said he died of complications from surgery.
WASHINGTON Ken Starr, the independent counsel whose investigation uncovered President Bill Clintons affair with a White House intern and led to his impeachment for lying under oath and obstructing justice, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Texas. He was 76.
Mr. Starrs family said in a statement that he died of complications from surgery at Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center in Houston but gave no further details.
More to follow, but posted without further comment...
CNN"s take:
Baylor President Linda Livingstone said in a statement Tuesday that Judge Starr was a dedicated public servant and ardent supporter of religious freedom that allows faith-based institutions such as Baylor to flourish.
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A conservative Republican, Starrs investigations into Clinton began when he was appointed by a federal appeals panel in 1994 as an independent counsel in the probe of the then-President and Hillary Clintons involvement in the Whitewater real estate scandal. The Clintons ultimately were not prosecuted in that case, but Starrs investigation in the Clintons dealings later expanded to include Paula Jones allegations of sexual harassment, and that inquiry led to Starr leading the investigation into the Presidents affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The Lewinsky affair ultimately resulted in Clinton being impeached on two charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice, though he was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999 and served out the remainder of his term.
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Starr rejected accusations that his pursuit of Clinton was politically motivated.
I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed in this (Paula Jones) sexual harassment lawsuit, Starr said at the time. The whole idea of equal justice under law means that youve got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
He stepped down from independent counsel position in October 1999, citing the intense politicization of the independent counsel process.
Starr is survived by his wife, Alice, whom he married in 1970, and three children.
azlatina
(60 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts).
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BradAllison
(1,879 posts)Hope he suffered.
EYESORE 9001
(25,811 posts)It was the gates of hell swinging open to receive a very special minion.
montanacowboy
(6,052 posts)One less bastard GOPer
mikeysnot
(4,755 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)Montauk6
(8,045 posts)................
dem4decades
(11,241 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)I doubt it. In what way is this "breaking" news to which one would expect there to be further information? It's not like they are looking for the person who did it.
He's dead. That's it. It's over. It is not "breaking".
ItsjustMe
(11,166 posts)The world is a better place without him.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,375 posts)but for helping Beer-Bong Brett Kavanaugh and Jeffrey Epstein.
I also think he was involved in one of those cases against a student suspended for protesting in favor of legal weed despite doing it on their own time and ignored abuse at Baylor, but can't find it right now, every search result for several pages is a link to his death or Whitewater bs.
Fuck him, I hope he rots in hell.
kskiska
(27,040 posts)jalan48
(13,797 posts)ms liberty
(8,478 posts)Goodheart
(5,264 posts)303squadron
(519 posts)"That's when they finally put you in the ground
I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down"
MagickMuffin
(15,886 posts)
Court filing claims Starr and other Baylor leaders helped student accused of sexual misconduct
A motion filed this week in an ongoing federal lawsuit against Baylor University alleges that high-ranking officials including former president and chancellor Ken Starr helped a student they knew had been accused of sexual harassment.
The accused student, the motion claims, had a close relationship with Starr and other Baylor leaders, and was employed on campus in a capacity where he oversaw female students and worked on Title IX initiatives.
The motion was filed Tuesday evening by former Democratic state Rep. Jim Dunnam and Houston attorney Chad Dunn, who are representing several anonymous women who have sued Baylor on the grounds that the school has failed to comply with Title IX, the federal statute that bans discrimination against women on campus.
Starr could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday. He was president of the university from 2010 until last year, when he resigned under pressure in the fallout of a scandal over how the university handled allegations of sexual assault among students.
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/20/court-filing-claims-starr-and-other-baylor-leaders-helped-student-accu/
I guess one gets to cherry pick which sexual misconducts one finds worthy of investigating!
TheRealNorth
(9,435 posts)IOKIYAR
Pacifist Patriot
(24,647 posts)"so what" and "myeh" commentary.
belpejic
(720 posts)I'll check back in when Ted Olson passes.
hlthe2b
(101,701 posts)His work in support of Gay Marriage, support of DACA, and refusal to defend Trump--among his more recent "accomplishments."
Yes, I won't forget Bush v Gore, but he's certainly more redeemable than Starr.
Breaking democracy seems pretty irredeemable, but what do I know.
hlthe2b
(101,701 posts)Prevailing in Obergefell v Hodges with David Boies was masterful.
Maybe read ab it about it here:
https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-supreme-courts-marriage-equality-ruling-the-most-consequential-ruling-in-our-lifetimes
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)His fixation with blow jobs and oral-anal is finally over
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)..."A 1998 memo released on Monday as part of a Freedom of Information Act request from the nonprofit group Fix the Court shows just how much specific, intimate detail Kavanaugh sought to elicit from Clinton about his extramarital affair.
In the memo to Starr, Kavanaugh revealed significant hostility towards Clinton regarding his behavior with Lewinsky and recommended that Starr play hardball when he eventually interviewed Clinton. Kavanaugh wrote:"
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(I will spare further details, but it is all at the link)
dchill
(38,315 posts)* any
JHB
(37,128 posts)That intense politicization was the only reason he was made SC to the Whitewater investigation. By design, and he knew it before he ever took the job.
He got the job because his predecessor, Robert Fiske, had investigated and had not come up with the "right" answer. So conservative operative judges in the courts (loooooooong before Trump) replaced him with someone more amenable to conservative propaganda needs, namely the starry-eyed Starr.
Aristus
(66,075 posts)that he would turn red in the face and foam at the mouth if you mentioned Bill Clinton's name.
I know that's not an exaggeration, because I actually knew a guy who did the exact same thing. Imagine having nothing better to do with one's life than hate someone so uselessly.
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Bye, Kenny-Boy.
Fuck you.
NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)as im sure many can understand, my thoughts about ken starr bring up complicated feelings but of more importance, is that i imagine its a painful loss for those who love him.
5:45 PM · Sep 13, 2022 ·Twitter for iPhone
Link to tweet
hlthe2b
(101,701 posts)I can't quite muster the same, but I do recognize that he had people who cared.
madaboutharry
(40,148 posts)Maybe time does heal.
hatrack
(59,439 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,145 posts)yardwork
(61,408 posts)Takket
(21,421 posts)Fuck that guy all the way to hell.
Moms aren't always right
liberal N proud
(60,298 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,916 posts)niyad
(112,424 posts)mcar
(42,206 posts)Chicken and pasta salad here.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The country just got a little better.
ZonkerHarris
(24,155 posts)PS: Fuck that corrupt asshole.
walkingman
(7,505 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,489 posts)mackdaddy
(1,520 posts)Hope they don't mind if it passes through the kidneys first.
Botany
(70,281 posts)having an affair @ the time he was going after President Clinton, and he hid rapes and sexual
violence by football players @ Baylor.
BTW he might have very well have stopped President Clinton from getting bin Laden and stopped
am Al Gore Presidency too.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,644 posts)won't miss ya
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,998 posts)hlthe2b
(101,701 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)RobinA
(9,874 posts)Not HIM.