Robert William Ray (born April 4, 1960) is an American lawyer practicing in the New York office of the Dallas-based law firm of Thompson & Knight, LLP, as the successor to Ken Starr, as the head of the Office of the Independent Counsel (1999 to 2002) he investigated and issued the final reports on the White House FBI files controversy of the Clinton Administration, often referred to as which term, arose in June 1996 around improper access in 1993 and 1994 to FBI security-clearance documents?