Government Misconduct

As the big-time television pundits grabbed a few hours of sleep before the big-time morning shows, the armchair pundits took over as chief analysts of the presidential apology. They hadn't been prepped, or fed, or feted in the "green room." They hadn't spent time in make-up. From their homes or their tire store or a bar in Boise, Idaho, they called in to talk-radio programs around the country. And they kept calling, all night long. Some like Jim--who phoned a Washington, D.C.

You are old, father William the young man said and your hair has grown very white and yet you incessantly stand on your head-- Do you think, at your age, it is right? --Lewis Carroll Whaddaya think? Whaddaya think? --Larry King on CNN Monday night * Whew! What you just heard was a collective sigh of relief following months of agonizing root canal.

For years, whenever a woman surfaced with a story that threatened the boss, the Clinton team had the same response: Assume attack mode and assail her credibility. Gennifer Flowers, the cabaret singer who sold her story of a long affair with Gov. Clinton to a supermarket tabloid, had traded "tabloid trash for cash." Paula Corbin Jones, the former Arkansas state employee who charged sexual harassment, was said to be doing the bidding of the president's conservative enemies. And Kathleen E.

A federal judge has concluded that independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr or his prosecutors may have violated grand jury secrecy rules by leaking information to the media about the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, according to court papers released Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals here ordered further investigation by the court of Chief U.S.

More than six months after allegations of an extramarital affair and obstruction of justice first threatened to topple the presidency, Monica S. Lewinsky is expected to enter the U.S. Courthouse today to tell her story under a grant of full immunity from prosecution. The former White House intern is expected to tell grand jurors what she already has told independent counsel Kenneth W.

Five days after issuing a subpoena for President Clinton's testimony, independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr moved quickly to obtain Monica S. Lewinsky's full cooperation by arranging a pair of secret meetings in private homes that led to the former White House intern receiving a grant of full immunity from prosecution, her attorneys said in interviews Saturday. Veteran defense lawyers Plato Cacheris and Jacob A.

The latest effort by the White House to block longtime Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey from answering investigators' questions about the Monica S. Lewinsky matter met with almost instant rebuke Monday from an appellate court. The White House had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here to delay enforcing its earlier ruling that the attorney-client privilege does not shield Lindsey, a deputy counsel, from testifying fully about his conversations with the president.

When the allegations involving her husband and former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky arose seven months ago, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton attributed the investigation to a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Now, she is blaming her husband's legal difficulties on anti-Arkansas bias as well. "I think a lot of this is prejudice against our state," the first lady said in a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published Tuesday.

The county will pay the final $23,485 in attorney bills for former Budget Director Ronald S. Rubino, bringing to $631,263 the cost for defending him against criminal charges resulting from the county's bankruptcy. Rubino pleaded no contest in 1996 to a single felony count of altering public records, which was reduced to a misdemeanor by a judge and eventually stricken from his record.

Cavorting with a stripper. Putting a mistress on the public payroll. Having sex on the Capitol steps. Attempting sodomy in a men's room. Soliciting prostitutes. Seducing teenagers. As these well-documented cases of past misbehavior by federal lawmakers suggest, Congress does not exactly have a clean slate on the subject of sexual conduct. And though little-discussed of late, this sordid history looms as a volatile dynamic when independent counsel Kenneth W.