Ken Starr Quotes
Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
Starr, Kenneth W. Testimony. Impeachment Inquiry: William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Presentation by Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr, November 19, 1998. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.
His charge was to investigate leaks of the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. The Chief of Staff to the Vice President, Scooter Libby, had in Fitzgerald’s view, lied to the grand jury, and was therefore indicted.
it is ironic that the witnesses swear to tell the entire truth but the prosecutors, attorneys, and judges are not so bound. Most in actuality often do not reveal aspects of the truth that might undermine their case or with judges, the personal view of judicial administration. Often judges do not tell defendants in criminal trials all their options about protesting the judges actions in the trial for example.
Deseret was the “state” that had been established by the Mormons in Utah. What is particularly interesting about this quotation is that pioneers traveling to California and Washington and passing through the Mormon territory availed themselves of the Mormon Civil Court system.
Some democratic cultures are very distrustful of government bureaucracies and prefer to resolve conflicts through the courts where the process in in general much more transparent. The U. S. is not the only example. Israel is even more litigious.
In the first real code of laws of the first American Coony in Virginia,, lying under oath was a capital offense.
Kenneth Winston Starr is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge and 39th solicitor general of the United States. He is best known for heading an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy.
