Starr, Clinton Counterattacks

Your Feb. 26 editorial concerning Kenneth Starr’s activities, good or bad, makes me ask one question: What can Starr do to “check” the assault campaign the White House started when the president brought back spinmasters to reform his “bimbo eruption squad”?

This country is a land of laws, not personalities. If the president or any of his aides have broken any laws, they must stand before the bar of justice.

If the president hopes to make Starr the bad guy and try to save his legacy, he is wrong. The president’s legacy started when his campaign staff in 1991 formed the “bimbo eruption squad.” We survived Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon. We found out the Constitution worked rather well, and it will work again, despite the spin pouring forth from both sides every day.

DENNIS MARTIN

Whittier

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Re “Starr Subpoena Sharpens Clash With Clinton,” Feb. 25: Now we have Starr investigating by way of a grand jury whether or not criticism from the White House is false or even criminal. Everyone here in America should be concerned with the abuses of power Starr is using against the president. If he has the power to subject the president to such an abuse of his powers, without the federal courts stepping in to put a stop to it, then we the public do not have a prayer.

SAMUEL S. WALKER

Long Beach

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If Starr wishes to investigate his critics, rather than investigate crimes, he should do it on his own time with his own money. By using the power of his office, his unlimited access to the FBI and his personal grand jury to harass and intimidate those who criticize his actions, he has exceeded constitutional powers on a number of fronts, including the 1st, 4th, 5th (which establishes the grand jury itself, among its other more famous clauses) and 6th amendments.

The only word to describe Starr’s actions is “criminal.” Since Starr cannot be removed by any other means, he must be subject to the impeachment clause (Article II, Section 4) and the House should begin proceedings immediately.

KEITH PRICE

Los Angeles

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Susan McDougal and Monica Lewinsky are both victims of Starr’s inability to deal with a democracy. He has mistreated both women with his Nazi disposition while spending millions of dollars to further his hatred not only for these two women but for the world. He should be removed immediately.

SALLY MONROE

Los Angeles

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Re “Confessions of a Right-Wing Conspirator,” Column Right, Feb. 24: David Horowitz drums up the name of Joe McCarthy to smear the Clinton White House and its effort to defend itself. As I remember the history of McCarthy and his times, he ignited a firestorm in the conservative community. Before it ended, many people’s lives were damaged and very few of them were conservative.

We are now into the seventh year of a firestorm of whispers and shouts from the conservative talk show circuit smearing the Clintons. Horowitz now claims a McCarthy-style threat against the right wing. Is there nothing that he will not stoop to? Does this man have any shame?

DAVID L. EASTMAN

Costa Mesa

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No one in his or her right mind actually believes in a “right-wing conspiracy” to unravel the Clinton administration. The president is doing a good job of that himself. His only real hope now is that blithering idiots like Horowitz will attack him and claim to be under attack themselves. This incredible logic will once more ensure to the public that as bad and as naughty as Clinton can be and has been, the alternative is much worse.

CHARLES REILLY

Manhattan Beach

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Horowitz says that the Clinton crew is using conspiracy charges to target political opponents. On the same Commentary page, Robert Scheer says, “Starr is a political activist who is using the independent counsel’s powers to accomplish what his right-wing allies failed to do in the presidential election.”

If Scheer is correct, and there seems to be a lot of evidence that he is, then conspiracy or no conspiracy, it is wrong. It is a blow to our justice system and does not serve our country well.

FRANK S. MORRIS

Westminster

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I do not expect my president, or anyone, to be above temptation, only to have the strength of character to resist.

PATRICIA FRETER

Yucca Valley