STARR MEMOIR RECOUNTS LEWINSKY AFFAIR

Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation led to president Bill Clinton’s impeachment, writes in his upcoming book that if Monica Lewinsky had co-operated with his probe from the start, “the country would not have been dragged through an eight-month ordeal.”

Starr contends that the former White House intern who had a sexual relationship with the president carried “fierce but misguided loyalty” and “allowed herself to become a tragic figure of late twentieth-century America.”

“She carries with her forever the living reality of the Clintons’ victim-strewn path to power, the most visible casualty of the Clintons’ contempt,” Starr writes in Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation.