Special prosecutor

As the arguments surrounding the special prosecutor flair up it is time to look back at what happened when Bill Clinton was investigated. It started with special prosecutor Fiske was praised by all. He was looking into Whitewater and in six months he wrapped up the case and said there was no crime committed. The republicans said Fiske did not do a proper job and reauthorized a second prosecutor Ken Starr and within a month he concluded that there was no evidence of a crime. Then Linda Tripp came forth with her taped conversations with Monica Lewinski and Starr shifted the investigation to the Monica affair. This led to the smoking gun, (blue dress) and Clinton was charged with lying under oath and the impeachment went forward. There was considerable collateral damage done during this episode. Larry Flynt the publisher of Hustler magazine offered a million dollars to anyone who could prove improper sexual behavior and the first to fall was Congressman Henry Hyde the guy in charge of the impeachment proceedings. He was 74 and it was revealed he had an affair 33 years earlier. Next came Congressman Bob Livingston and his past affairs brought him down. In today’s case special prosecutor Mueller started out looking at the Trump-Russia connection and has moved on to obstruction of justice and now looking at the Clinton Foundation, the justice department and the FBI. This will probably go on for years and who knows where it will lead or how many congressmen will bite the dust. All this just confirms in the minds of many people that Washington is a mess.