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Ken Starr, the independent counsel in the 1990s who investigated President Clinton, died this week in Houston at age 76, and the history to understand is that what Democrats blame him for was ultimately Mr. Clinton’s doing. Starr was a formidable lawyer: an appellate judge, a U.S. Solicitor General, a credible contender for a Supreme Court seat.
In 1994 he accepted the no-win job of independent counsel on the Whitewater investigation into the Clintons’ real-estate dealings. The same year, Paula Jones sued Mr. Clinton for sexual harassment. Eventually a judicial panel and Attorney General Janet Reno agreed to expand Starr’s remit. “I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general,” he said in 1998, “and that was to find out whether crimes were committed in this sexual harassment lawsuit.”
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