For months it has been obvious that somebody has been feeding information to the press which was defamatory to president Clinton. All these quotes were not for attribution. Starr's violations are so obvious that in a normal non-political situation he would without doubt be disbarred and subject to criminal prosecution. So far, however, in spite of the widespread public outrage against Ken Starr, nobody has been willing to take action against him because of the politically sensitive nature of the case. Everybody is remembering what happened after Nixon fired Archibald Cox.
Nobody wants a repeat of that scenario.