CLINTON/STARR SCRAMBLED Wed Aug 12 1998 23:34:51 UTC-- An extraordinary communications security blanket will be in place for President Clinton's grand jury showdown on Monday. One of the hottest telecasts in American history will be scrambled with the latest encryption technology and put on a special fiber-optic line from the White House to the courtroom, the DALLAS MORNING NEWS reports in Thursday editions. Hacker beware: Intercepting the president's testimony could fall under wiretapping statutes as a felony, reports the paper. Tech workers, claiming to be from a Virginia cable company, visited the federal courthouse early week. One court watcher explains that the cover didn't work: "It was obvious that the guys were not with 'Virginia Cable' but were from the FBI or some other government agency... setting it all up." Starr is expected to personally question Clinton during the session... "[T]errorists are the only true avant-garde artists because they're the only ones who are still capable of really surprising people." (Delillo q.v. Laurie Anderson 1994: 222)