STARR MEMOIR RECOUNTS LEWINSKY AFFAIR
WASHINGTON 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.