Ken Starr, prosecutor in Clinton Whitewater probe, dies at 76
Source: CNBC
Ken Starr, who led the Whitewater investigation into former President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday at 76, his family said in a statement.
Starr died in Houston of complications from surgery, the statement said.
Starr was nominated by former President Ronald Reagan for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., and he served as U.S. solicitor general under then-President George H.W. Bush.
But he is best known for leading Whitewater, the expansive investigation that began as a probe of real estate investments by then-President Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton, but branched out to encompass numerous other areas including the notorious Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
That scandal involved the presidents extramarital affair with Lewinsky, which started when she was a 24-year-old White House intern.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/13/ken-starr-prosecutor-in-clinton-whitewater-probe-dies-at-76.html
underpants
(182,803 posts)Not our finest.
wnylib
(21,465 posts)Trump was impeached.
Some people leave the world a better place by the things they do while alive.
Others leave the world a better place just by leaving.
electric_blue68
(14,896 posts)rubbersole
(6,690 posts)DenaliDemocrat
(1,476 posts)Here on earth
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)2live is 2fly
(336 posts)murielm99
(30,741 posts)I wonder what kind of surgery.
wnylib
(21,465 posts)his body rejected it as too foreign.
peppertree
(21,635 posts)That pedophile bastard is the real reason we ended up with 8 years of the Bush regime - and all the calamities therefrom.
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)MEH.
Polybius
(15,414 posts)Didn't know that, but will research it. Thanks!
niyad
(113,304 posts)catbyte
(34,386 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,200 posts)RoccoRyg
(260 posts)But then Bills died from eating Saddam Hussein's poison burger.
TheBlackAdder
(28,200 posts).
If that's the case, let's send Ash after him. He works for cheap.
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Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)One should only speak good of the dead. Ken Starr is dead, good.
Starr spoke against Trump's impeachment after pushing for Clinton's impeachment for a consensual blow job.
Starr's original purpose was to investigate the Whitewater land deal which turned out to be a big nothing-burger.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)"We should only speak good of the dead. Xxxxx Yyyyy is dead - good."
Thanks.
CarlYasutomo
(53 posts)Response to CarlYasutomo (Reply #92)
LompocDem This message was self-deleted by its author.
Polybius
(15,414 posts)A true classic.
wnylib
(21,465 posts)investigating Whitewater. It was actually to smear Clinton and the Democrats in preparation for 2000.
Even then, Republicans could not "win" without cheating in various locations and then getting a SC appointment of Bush.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)gay texan
(2,448 posts)Fuck that guy.
AZ8theist
(5,461 posts)intheflow
(28,473 posts)I read this headline and thought, "Good!" Talk about wasting taxpayer money!
AwakeAtLast
(14,125 posts)mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)barbtries
(28,794 posts)the fucking perverted asshole hypocritical republican.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)he's nothing but a grandstanding piece of shit
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)ironflange
(7,781 posts)Gymbo
(133 posts)To send his surgeon a thank you note?
wnylib
(21,465 posts)Aristus
(66,369 posts)Hope you're prepared for the warmer weather where you'll be headed...
llmart
(15,539 posts)He can go join the other rat bastard, Limpballs, in hell.
onetexan
(13,041 posts)AllyCat
(16,187 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 13, 2022, 06:20 PM - Edit history (1)
But this man wasted a lot of our time and money smearing a guy over infidelity that republicans typically prize.
harumph
(1,900 posts)AllyCat
(16,187 posts)Amazing that those with means can find people like Starr.
calimary
(81,267 posts)And fuck you very much.
Probably went to his death a very sad and frustrated individual, because he couldnt persecute the Clintons any further. Too damn bad.
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CanonRay
(14,101 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,928 posts)grockri
(19 posts)A corrupt right wing idiot, who went way passed his duties in Whitewater. Just to attack the Democratic President. All in public view. This POS will not be missed. Good riddance. To the dust bin of history.
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)I hope he burns.
I was going to say exactly the same thing.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)marieo1
(1,402 posts)Glad he's gone...............I hated that man!!
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)Thats the nicest thing I can say about him.
Fritz67
(353 posts)...that the guy who chased Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife...
...cheated on his wife.
The guy who sanctimoniously went after Bill Clinton for lying about extramarital sex, turns out to be a wife cheater, himself, as well as an enabler of Jeffrey Epsteins pedophilia and a whitewasher of Brett Kavanaughs abusive behavior. Thats not counting Ken Starrs support for Donald Trump.
Starrs former mistress, Judi Hershman, wrote an in-depth Medium post about how her affair with Starr (begun during a 2009 bike trip in Tuscany, while their spouses were at dinner elsewhere) and how Starrs fraudulent sanctimony greased the wheels for Epstein, Kavanaugh and Trump. Its now too much for her to keep quiet.
Starrs excusal of Brett Kavanaughs abusive and threatening behavior toward her when the three of them were working on the Clinton investigation seems to be the beginning of Hershmans awakening. She describes Kavanaughs abusive behavior as terrifying: He began berating me and invading my personal space in a deranged fury that sent me into flight around the table. Starr refused to demand an apology from Kavanaugh and said he was destined for great things, according to Hershman.
Twenty years later, after Kavanaughs temper tantrum during his confirmation process, Hershman submitted a statement to two Democratic and two Republican senators about her own experience. She also contacted Starr, who did nothing. She did not contact the FBI, assuming theyd be investigating more serious accusations. Spoiler alert: they didnt.
oasis
(49,386 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,097 posts)ZERTErYNOthe
(199 posts)I'm sure you know this verse, and at times like this, it reminds me that we all end up the same, from the greatest to the least of us:
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
I'm not sure which master he served on earth, but in the end he is dead. He could have helped his fellow people, society, the world that God gave us to take care of. Instead he chose to serve a few powerful politicians, to engage in hypocrisy, gossip, and bearing false witness. All in order to further his masters goals. In the end he is just as dead as all of us will be.
I do not mourn his death. I mourn his choices in life, and the damage and evil he has inflicted on our world.
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)His fixation with blow jobs and oral-anal is finally over
niyad
(113,304 posts)history. May he receive everything he deserves.
MLAA
(17,289 posts)wysi
(1,512 posts)It should be very satisfying.
LT Barclay
(2,603 posts)I think Fox loved parading him out front to continue to subtely knock the Clintons. He didn't even have to mention them, just his presence was enough of a reminder for that crowd.
wnylib
(21,465 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,167 posts)Martin68
(22,801 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)During the Lewinsky mess, I remember an interview with his college roommates. They said he didn't date, but when they did, he wanted all the details. Not just whether or not they had sex, but as they said, ALL the details. His problems & fascination with other people's sex lives obviously went WAY back.
randr
(12,412 posts)Where will the public urinal be located?
ShazzieB
(16,398 posts)I found two.
DinahMoeHum
(21,788 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I do prefer to be nice about people dying but sometimes it simply cant be done honestly.
oasis
(49,386 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)a long time for what he did to this country. He is up there with James Comey. I HATE them both with passion. Their unnecessary political actions resulted in terrible politics which has inflicted harm to this country from the top down. Their actions have caused millions of Americans to suffer hardships in small and and large ways. They shaped this country for the worse...THE WORSE! Their actions should be remembered by historians for the true anti-American politicians they are. Selfish, greedy, treasonous bastards must be punished in their lifetime. Starr should have suffered justice and perhaps he wouldn't have committed more crimes after Clinton. He is a thorough evil piece of shit and I dance on his grave.
I have my dancing shoes out and pouring a double whiskey as I celebrate his death 25 years after he should have died. If a just God existed this anti-democracy fucking asshole would have been struck with a long and painful illness back in 1999. He caused so much pain indirectly to this country and he is a 100% pure anti-American pig, just like all the GQP today. He set the road map for all the shit that has happened since the late 90s. Comey should suffer in pain for the same reasons.
For now though...FUCK YOU KENNY...ROT in Hell!
niyad
(113,304 posts)flying_wahini
(6,594 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)ET Awful
(24,753 posts)that's nice!
DENVERPOPS
(8,820 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)You must say something good about the dead.
My turn: Ken Starr is dead. Good.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)...let's go out for drinks!
trof
(54,256 posts)cilla4progress
(24,733 posts)Part of the long march to psychosis in the R party and thus country, as a whole.
czarjak
(11,277 posts)patphil
(6,176 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)assuming I had the financial means to travel which I probably never will unfortunately.
Pinback
(12,155 posts)What a waste of protoplasm.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)I hope the MFer is frying in hell tonight.
What he did to President Clinton was bs.
wolfie001
(2,231 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,530 posts)They chained Susan McDougal to a toilet
ROBERT SCHEER
May 14, 1998
PRISON - or the threat of it - hangs over those who won't incriminate the president. She has been held mostly in solitary confinement, denied exercise as well as a Bible. On several occasions, she has been chained to a toilet for hours at a time. She was "housed on the same row with murderers, molesters, abusers and psychotic prisoners, one of whom attempted to stab her with a sharpened pencil," according to a brief filed by her attorney last week.
Doctors report that a precondition of scoliosis has degenerated to the point where parts of her vertebrae are fused. She is in constant back pain, exacerbated by sleeping on mattresses on concrete floors and spending many hours forced to sit upright in holding cells. She is Susan McDougal. Her constant degradation is outlined in a motion filed last week by her attorney, Mark Geragos, to reduce her sentence. It cries out for a full-scale civil rights investigation.
Maybe then we will learn the facts of her prison condition. But to know that something very wrong is afoot, observe those photos of McDougal, manacled with heavy shackles, as she moves through Kenneth Starr's never-ending inquisition. This barbarous treatment, unprecedented for a civil contempt prisoner, was not intended to prevent escape.
The plan to break her spirit and force a denunciation of the president is obvious with each turn of the screw. She served 18 months for civil contempt, and now, in the last hours of the Little Rock grand jury, Starr piled on the more serious charge of criminal contempt.
More:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/They-chained-Susan-McDougal-to-a-toilet-3090256.php
StevieM
(10,500 posts)It is sad that people don't remember how evil the Whitewater investigation was.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)No disrespect to the family, but Monica is probably having a good day too.
wnylib
(21,465 posts)celebrating more than the rest of us combined.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)I should have said "The Clintons are having some people over tonight to mourn in private" LOL
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,242 posts)TeamProg
(6,131 posts)evolves
(5,401 posts)yankee87
(2,173 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,628 posts)2live is 2fly
(336 posts)hope they bury you in your cowboy hat right after someone takes a shit in it!
OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)Life can be so brootal Kenny . .
Skittles
(153,160 posts)yes INDEED
tonekat
(1,815 posts)A mouthpiece for evil.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,331 posts)The damage has been done.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,689 posts)TeamProg
(6,131 posts)Good riddance to OLD TRASH!!
TeamProg
(6,131 posts)FUCKING ASSHOLE!!
Linda Ed
(493 posts)Ken Starr was an evil, cherub-faced man who defended the likes of Blackwater mercenaries, anti-LGBTQ Prop 8 advocates, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump. He also represented and covered up for alleged child sexual abusers and rapists.
One of his protégées is Brett Kavanaugh.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)In a refrigerator.
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)..you came to the right place.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Now I need to know where he is buried so I can dance on his grave
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)in jail for 18 months because she wouldn't lie under oath for him. Suborning perjury was one of the reasons he was prosecuting Bill Clinton's penis. Not a good man by any measure.
Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)Ken Starr is dead.
Good.
Hekate
(90,686 posts)denbot
(9,899 posts)Rot in your grave bastard.