Ken Starr, poodle, and other matters.

We have long suspected Ken Starr of deliberate misdirection for pursuing Bill Clinton's cavortations with Monica Lewinsky and ignoring the really bone chilling abuses perpetrated by Bill, Hillary, and Craig Livingstone.

The "investigation" into the death of Vince Foster was nothing less than a scramble to overlook and misinterpret evidence that he did not die by his own hand.

Whatever Starr was investigating it seemed to have little to do with the objective of getting to the bottom of "Clintongate," which was a far more sinister phenomenon than the moniker suggests. A White House lawyer dies, a close associate of his is gunned down afterwards in Arkansas, a Little Rock lawyer with video of Clinton visiting Jennifer Flowers is severely beaten, Chinese with mob and Chicom intelligence connections dispense money in and around the White House and first Clinton presidential campaign, and women of his acquaintance, shall we say, are, for example, "threatened, their pets killed, and nails driven into their car tires."

There was much, much more. If you're interested, start here: The Clinton Scandals and America's Dreyfus Affair. The Case of the Death of Vince Foster.

A piece by Roger Aronoff reminded us of our fascination with the way things went down in the Glory Days of the Clinton presidency. The Official Verdict appears to be that all that is history of the most ancient sort. Probably the establishment and MSM dedication to that proposition has much to do with the fact that Clinton's modus operandi focused too much attention on how other luminaries go about their business.

Similarly, the half life of the 1989 Craig Spence call boy scandal in Washington, you will recall, was about two weeks, given the bipartisan, universal, All Union, blessed-by-the-Pope, three-alarm rush to hush the involvement of high, high officials and the clear evidence of involvement of the Japanese LDP in a probable blackmail operation targeting the American political elite.

Ah, yes. It all points out the amazing thermal layer between the Official Version of history and Persistent Inconvenient Memory below in the murk of the notion ocean.

Anyhoo . . . Mr. Aronoff touches on the strange, strange misdirection aspect of the investigation of Clinton:

That so-called conspiracy impeached Clinton for the wrong reasons. There were far worse crimes than lying under oath and obstructing justice in the Lewinsky case. Charges could have included abuses of power such as Filegate (the unlawful acquisition and misuse of FBI files of his political opponents), Travelgate (the use of the IRS and FBI to harass and prosecute innocent people in order to put his cronies in the White House Travel Office), and paying hush money to Webb Hubbell, his associate attorney general who went to jail and was willing to "roll over one more time" after collecting $700,000 in fees that he didn't earn.

"Rupert and Hillary." By Roger Aronoff, Accuracy in Media Media Monitor, 6/6/06.