Actually, Starr never should have been investigating that to start with. He was appointed to investigate the Whitewater Land deal. Period. Full fucking stop.
Independent Counsels are cool, eh?
Actually, no.
The problem with IC"s in general is that they are going to damn well find someone guilty of something.
We saw that with Lawrence Walsh, who couldn't get Reagan or Bush on anything related to Iran-Contra (because they hadn't actually broken any laws), but he went after Cap Weinberger for perjury because he said he hadn't kept a diary, but he did submit meeting notes to the national archive. And Cap was the guy in the room who had the good sense to say selling weapons to the Iranians was probably a terrible idea.
We saw that with Patrick Fitzgerald, who didn't go after the anti-war Circle Jerk of Armitage-Novak-Wilson for outing Wilson's wife... But he went after Scooter Libby for not remembering a conversation with Tim Russert the same way Tim remembered it.
And yes, we saw that with Ken Starr, who was supposed to be investigating a land deal and ended up investigating Clinton's sex life.
Now that said, I do think we need a reformed IC statue, but one where they are ONLY focused on the thing they are supposed to be investigating... not process crimes or side issues.
We saw that with Lawrence Walsh,
Yeah, he was a twat.