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Ted Kennedy
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Date Posted: 18:56:12 05/29/02 Wed
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The Cornerstone of our Legal system. :) Veeckster
's message, "Kenny, like MOST Repsters, is Unfamiliar with the concept, INOCENT TILL PROVEN GUILTY" on 09:56:03 05/29/02 Wed
I never would've gotten those millions for that Dr. Suess statue!
>>It always worked for me!
>
>
>See Kenny, talking that way is what led to you
>Repsters to waste $40 million dollars of taxpayer
>money harassing Bubba for a fictitious crime! And, uh,
>$65 Million harassing Bubba's Cabinet!@!! When are
>yew guys reimbursing us, BTW??
>
>
>Check this out!
>
>Washington Post, April 1, 1999
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/c
>linton/stories/counsel040199.htm
>
>Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr spent $6.2
>million during the six months last year when he was
>deposing former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky
>and concluding his impeachment case against President
>Clinton, according to the General Accounting Office.
>
>From April through September, Starr's spending on
>salaries, travel, rent, supplies and private outside
>contractors--along with special services from the FBI,
>Internal Revenue Service and other agencies of the
>government--increased more than 50 percent over the
>previous six months.
>
>With the latest figures, Starr is closing in on the
>record for spending by an independent counsel: the
>$47.4 million spent by Lawrence Walsh on the
>eight-year investigation of Reagan administration
>officials involved in the Iran-contra affair. Starr
>commenced his investigation of Whitewater and related
>matters in August 1994. Since then, he has spent $39.2
>million probing Whitewater and President Clinton's
>affair with Lewinsky. Before Starr's appointment, a
>special counsel appointed by Attorney General Janet
>Reno had spent $6 million on a probe of Whitewater.
>
>Responding to the report, a Starr spokesman said: "The
>monumental effort required to conduct the
>investigation of Monica Lewinsky and others required
>an unusual commitment of resources."
>
>In addition to Starr, five other independent counsels
>are currently conducting investigations. Four of those
>focus on the Clinton administration. The combined
>costs of those four inquiries and the Starr probe now
>comes to $69.4 million.
>
>A four-year investigation of Henry Cisneros, former
>secretary of housing and urban development, is
>scheduled to culminate in a trial of the former
>Clinton administration official in July on charges
>related to statements he made about payments to a
>mistress.
>
>Independent counsel David M. Barrett spent $1.4
>million from April through September last year on the
>probe, which has cost $8.7 million so far.
>
>An investigation of Clinton's former agriculture
>secretary, Mike Espy, who was acquitted by a jury last
>year, has cost $19.2 million.
>
>Two newer investigations--of Interior Secretary Bruce
>Babbitt and Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman--have
>cost less than $2 million. A probe of the late
>commerce secretary Ronald H. Brown, a victim of a 1996
>airplane crash, was terminated after expenditures of
>$3 million.
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