At 8:11 PM -0700 9/12/98, Duncan Frissell wrote:
At 07:18 PM 9/12/98 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I've seen several Cypherpunks express the opinion that can be summarized as "We paid $40 million for _this_?" And "Ken Starr is on a witch hunt."
Ken Starr is investigating 5 separate Clinton criminal conspiracies. Walsh took 7 years and $60megs to investigate Iran/Contra (two criminal conspiracies).
I like it when the rulers are consumed by their own creations.
DCF
Extra credit awarded for naming Starr's 5 investigations.
Let's see: -- Whitewater and Madison Guarantee (may be 2 separate investigations) -- Filegate (White House had 1100 FBI files, overseen by Craig the Bar Bouncer) -- Travelgate (replacing the old staff is kosher, but accusing them of crimes is not) -- Cigargate And of course there were and are investigations of Ron Brown, Hazel O'Leary, Ron Espe, Henry Cisneros, and nearly every one of the "rainbow coalition" he installed...seems only the honkies are not being investigated, which says either there's a coincidence, or the honkies are getting a pass, or the minorities he put in were your basic political graft appointees. I'd say that a President who lives by the sword will die by the sword, but this might get me a visit by one of his pimps, er, Secret Service stooges. They grep for "President" and "die" in the same paragraph and have no understanding of allusions. --Tim May (This space left blank pending determ. of acceptability to the gov't.) ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.