[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 152 (Thursday, November 12, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S12996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       INDEPENDENT COUNSEL LAW AND KENNETH STARR'S INVESTIGATION

 Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, on October 8th I made a statement on 
the Senate floor regarding the independent counsel law and Kenneth 
Starr's investigation of President Clinton. I want to take the 
opportunity today to clarify one aspect of that statement to ensure 
that my words and their import are accurate.
  I stated on October 8th that the so-called Starr Report failed to 
mention Ms. Lewinsky's testimony ``that when she asked President 
Clinton whether she should get rid of his gifts to her in light of the 
Jones subpoena, his response was `I don't know' '' and her testimony 
that the President said he didn't want to see Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit 
when she offered to show it to him. The reference in my statement 
should have been to Mr. Starr's analysis of the evidence which is the 
key part of his report instead of the overall report. Mr. Starr did 
make reference to such testimony in the part of the report where he 
summarized the evidence. My criticism of Mr. Starr's report is that he 
left such exculpatory evidence out of or dismissed it in the key part 
of his report which analyzes the evidence and explains why he believes 
the evidence ``may constitute grounds for impeachment.''
  Otherwise it was the imbalanced analysis of the evidence where Mr. 
Starr failed to address the significance or relevance of exculpatory 
facts such as these which is so disturbing.

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