In his civil deposition, to support his false statement about the sexual relationship, President Clinton also lied under oath about being alone with Ms. Lewinsky and about the many gifts exchanged between Ms. Lewinsky and him.7. President Clinton endeavored to obstruct justice by helping Ms. Lewinsky obtain a job in New York at a time when she would have been a witness harmful to him were she to tell the truth in the Jones case.8. Starr spent over six years on the Whitewater investigation, which eventually led to Clinton's impeachment for lying under oath, and billed taxpayers more than $70 million. * JULY 25: Starr subpoenas Clinton.<* APRIL 30: A federal judge rules there is no immunity for Secret Service agents. “And the ball is Russia.”By contrast, Mueller has run a tight ship, clamping down on leaks coming from his investigation and staying in the background even as the Trump Administration leaks profusely. September 21, 1998: Clinton's grand jury videotape is televised. After more than four years of investigation, Starr filed the Starr Report, which alleged that Bill Clinton lied about the existence of the affair during a sworn deposition. “Whereas Ken Starr was tempted into that space, Bob Mueller, I think having the wiser head about things like that, was not.”But Mueller’s own motives haven’t been impugned by as many neutral observers the way that Starr’s were.“If Bob Mueller has a strong partisan streak or ideological streak, he keeps it to himself,” says Barbara Perry, University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, who spoke to TIME as part of a new presidential-history partnership between TIME History and the Miller Center.“We don’t want it to be spread out,” says Solomon Wisenberg, who was second-in-command in the Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation. Kenneth Starr led the investigation of President Clinton in the 1990s.
Newly-appointed House of Representatives leader Bob Livingston announces he will step down because of Hustler magazine's revelations that he had had extramarital affairs. “If something isn’t fruitful and isn’t producing, he’s going to move on.”Plus, Perry muses, “Don’t we think Bob Mueller … is going to be especially careful that things don’t get out and get into social media, especially when the very president he’s investigating is a tweeter?”While Starr’s probe shifted focus from real estate deals to the president’s infidelity, Mueller’s has stayed methodically focused on Russia. Meanwhile, on a trip to Tokyo, Mr Clinton is harangued on Japanese television for his infidelity by a Japanese housewife.Mr Clinton resists calls to resign, pledging to fight to remain in the White House until "the last hour of the last day of my term".There remains complete disagreement on the procedure that will follow. Here’s a look at how he’s avoided three mistakes that hurt his predecessor.“If you leak, it gives ammunition to political opponents who can then try and attack you,” says Zeidenberg. This whole thing is terrible, for all of us.”“Mueller is a former prosecutor and a former investigator, and he is going to stay focused and keep his eye on the ball,” says Peter Zeidenberg, former deputy special counsel in the Scooter Libby case who worked with Mueller at the Justice Department. EXAMINER GRAPHICS / EXAMINER NEWS SERVICES. The lesson from the Starr investigation is that the political makeup of independent investigations does matter — as do the checks and balances … During the Jones case, the President obstructed justice and had an understanding with Ms. Lewinsky to jointly conceal the truth of their relationship from the judicial process by a scheme that included the following means: (i) Both the President and Ms. Lewinsky understood that they would lie under oath in the Jones case about their sexual relationship; (ii) the President suggested to Ms. Lewinsky that she prepare an affidavit that, for the President's purposes, would memorialize her testimony under oath and could be used to prevent questioning of both of them about their relationship; (iii) Ms. Lewinsky signed and filed the false affidavit; (iv) the President used Ms. Lewinsky's false affidavit at his deposition in an attempt to head off questions about Ms. Lewinsky; and (v) when that failed, the President lied under oath at his civil deposition about the relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.There is substantial and credible information supporting the following eleven possible grounds for impeachment:3.
The shift in focus of the investigation was sensational and polarizing.And experts say that moving quickly could help avoid the first trap of getting bogged down or veering off topic. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with the former independent counsel about Robert Mueller's investigation of President Trump. STARR INVESTIGATION TIMELINE. President Clinton lied under oath to the grand jury about his sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.6. Aug. 7, 1998: A federal appeals court lets an investigation of alleged news leaks from Ken Starr's office continue. In December 1997, Starr shut down the Whitewater investigation because of insufficient evidence. Starr spent over six years on the Whitewater investigation, which eventually led to Clinton's impeachment for lying under oath, and billed taxpayers more than $70 million.