The first independent prosecutor in the Whitewater investigation said that he had quickly uncovered "serious crimes" and was ready to indict top Arkansas figures — based on testimony from a key witness against former President Bill Clinton — before he was abruptly replaced by a panel of federal judges.
"I was angry, frustrated and above all disappointed that I was not going to be able to carry through and finish bringing the indictments," writes Robert Fiske, a former U.S. attorney who was appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno in 1994 to investigate the land deal, in his forthcoming book, "Prosecutor Defender Counselor."
Fiske, now 83 and a partner in the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, told Yahoo News this week that his removal ultimately caused the Whitewater probe against Bill and Hillary Clinton to drag on for longer than necessary under Kenneth Starr.
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2 comments:
bill and hill; lies, lies and more lies. anything to get ahead, get more money, and win. the core is rotten.
OMG are we going to have to go through this same crap again?
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