Starr immediately ordered an investigation of the Resolution Trust officials who sued his firm to determine whether they had obstructed justice in the Whitewater case. All just a coincidence, Starr says. His partners neglected to tell him that his firm was accused by the government of helping cheat the American taxpayers out of more than a million dollars, so he took the prosecutor's job unaware of the potential for abusing his power for his law firm's gain. But that conflict is almost beside the point. The more glaring and indefensible is the personal animus toward the president.
Prosecutors are prosecutors, but they are supposed to bring impartial judgment to the task.
Starr made no secret of his wish to bring down the president, who cost him his job as solicitor general of the United States and probably a Supreme Court appointment. He tried to help in the sexual harassment suit against Clinton by Paula Jones, and he has continued to spend most of his time, at fat retainers, representing all kinds of groups that are out to destroy the president, from right-wing foundations to the tobacco companies. James Carville told the New Yorker writer about enduring a tirade from Starr about Clinton in an airport lounge shortly before his appointment. Limbaugh might have been more circumspect.