"The Talking Points," Lewinsky, &c. . . . Jack Gillis, where are you???

As Starr pops his head in and out of recent news, I'm reminded of course, of what we did in '98.

I just wrote about it once again (below).

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A graduate student at the time, Jack Gillis (now Dr. Jack Gillis), and I spent several months contesting that "The Talking Points" Starr used to extend his authority from Whitewater to "the Lewinsky affair," was not written by the President or the President's men, as Starr contended, but was probably written by Linda Tripp and then fed over the phone to Lewinsky to type up and give back to Tripp (who was wearing a wire for Starr at the time).

The real point, here, is that Starr knew the Talking Points document was bogus (because of irrefutable evidence Gillis and I pointed out such as it directly contradicted statements in Clinton's sealed deposition) and yet he continued to use them. He even would parry the arguments we would make to the press (CNN, large newspapers, columnists like Oliphant and Conason) week by week, delaying his report to Congress for several weeks until the dress blew everything out of the water.

As a Special Prosecutor, a high public official charged with upholding the law, he was LYING. And continues to lie.

I've never take his word on anything.