Here’s the open line. And, for old times sake, a New York Times story Friday on the release of a long-secret report on leaking done by Kenneth Starr’s, Whitewater prosecution team in the bad old days. The point is, whether they broke the law by leaking Grand Jury information or not, the Starr team leaked to press friends throughout their six years of work. Unlike Robert Mueller, who’s run a tight shp.

The report is here. It concludes that the Starr team, during the Lewinsky blowup, might not have leaked Grand Jury information (plenty of Clinton enemies who orchestrated the Linda Tripp-Lewinsky matter had access to some of the information), but they nonetheless did a lot of talking to reporters — John Bates, now a federal judge, and the bullying Jackie Bennett among them. The report just now released brought no specific mention of Starr acolyte Brett Kavanaugh, as some had hoped. But he was in the thick of pushing to disclose every X-rated detail.

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All the while during his persecution,  Starr people would talk to no local reporters. They insisted they didn’t do such a thing, ever. Of course they did. The Starr team even posed for a New York Times photograph at one point, the Times and Post having been carrying Starr’s freight throughout. Mueller is playing no favorities.

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