In an interview with Peter Jennings of ABC News, former President Bill Clinton lashed out at Ken Starr and the media for thier conduct during the
investigation of the Whitewater scandal and the Impeachment proceedings.
(11-19) 15:55 PST LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) --
In a prime-time television outburst, Bill Clinton ripped old nemesis Kenneth Starr and what the former president portrayed as a gullible media eager
to report every "sleazy thing" leaked from a prosecutor bent on bringing him down.
The exchange came in an interview with ABC news anchor Peter Jennings that aired Thursday night, hours after Clinton opened his $165 million
presidential library. Clinton blasted Starr and spoke disdainfully of a national media that he suggested was complicit in a scheme to ruin his
presidency.
"No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said. "No one ever had to try to save people from ethnic cleansing in the
Balkans, and people in Haiti from a military dictator that was murdering them, and all the other problems I dealt with, while every day an entire
apparatus was devoted to destroying him."
The former president said he would go to his grave at peace that, while he had personal failings, he never lied to the American people about his job
as president. Clinton added that he doesn't care about what his detractors think about him. Jennings then said it seemed to him that Clinton did
care.
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Former President Clinton remains convinced that he was the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy during the Whitewater investigation by Special
Prosecutor Kenneth Starr and the impeachment proceedings stemming from his conduct with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton insisted that he had made a public personal mistake and that he had paid dearly for it and that he didn't care what others thought. When
Jennings challenged Clinton about his feelings, Clinton became agitated and told Jennings that it was a matter Jennings would be better off not
pursuing. Then the former President accused the media of complicity with the Starr investigation.
Mr. Clinton, its seems, is not willing to deal directly with his personal conduct during that difficult period of his adminstration and is quick to
attack others to deflect attention from his actions.
Mr. Clinton had a similar outburst with a British journalist during an interview earlier this year.
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wow, that's some high opinion of the multi-million $ funded failure!) 
