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Salon Magazine Report Reveals the "Unsavory" Political Roots of the Starr Investigation SAN FRANCISCO, CA, FEBRUARY 23, 1998 | Independent counsel Kenneth Starr's interminable investigation of President Clinton began as a political dirty trick cooked up in the George Bush White House in an 11th-hour attempt to defeat Clinton in the 1992 election. This political scheme involved generating a bogus criminal referral that charged the Clintons with financial crimes in the Whitewater affair, then improperly using the power of the presidency to get the Justice Department and the Resolution Trust Corporation to act on the referral. The evidence shows further that, since his first days as Whitewater independent counsel in 1994, Kenneth Starr has been using his position to cover up the improper and possibly illegal actions of high Bush administration officials, while relentlessly widening his investigation of President Clinton. These are among the key findings in a SALON Magazine cover story published Monday evening on the Web site's home page (www.salonmagazine.com). "The facts clearly show that the investigation of Clinton, which has dragged on for over four years and has now culminated in the sordid Monica Lewinsky allegations, was from the very beginning politically motivated," writes Washington journalist Mollie Dickenson in the article. "The real scandal," charges Dickenson, "is how the nation's elite media have failed to explore the unsavory political underpinnings of the Whitewater investigation, swallowing unskeptically whatever Starr's office leaks to them." Dickenson, who is writing a book on the Whitewater affair, has written articles for the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Miami Herald and other publications. She is the author of "Thumbs Up," a biography of wounded Reagan press secretary James Brady. SALON is an interactive magazine of books, arts, travel and ideas. SALON features original writing by respected thinkers on topics ranging from literature and entertainment to technology and politics. SALON's Table Talk reader forum is the second most popular forum on the Internet. SALON syndicates its content to newspapers through United Feature Syndicate. SALON Magazine also be accessed via AOL keyword SALON Magazine. - - - - - - - - - - - -
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