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Skullduggery

Buried Treasure: The Starr Report

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.02K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

After speaking with former independent counsel Ken Starr on the last Skullduggery, co-hosts Michael Isikoff and Dan Klaidman revisit the release of the Starr Report on this episode of Buried Treasure. The report was released almost 20 years ago, on September 11, 1998, and everyone was feverishly downloading it on their computers or running to get a copy. Isikoff and Klaidman discuss where they were and what they thought when they first read it. They also wonder if special counsel Mueller will release a report like the Starr Report when the Russia investigation is done.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

0:07.6

Welcome to another edition of Skull Duggery's Very Treasure, where we turn back the clock

0:13.0

to look at some scandal from the past that Shed's light on the scandals of today.

0:17.8

And I'm here with my co-host, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Russian

0:24.4

Roulette, Michael Isakov.

0:27.9

And hey, so...

0:28.9

Thanks for the plug, by the way.

0:29.9

Well, you know, it's just kind of like, it's automatic at this point.

0:33.0

I got you trained.

0:34.3

So, in our last episode of the podcast, we interviewed Ken Star, who of course was the

0:42.8

independent council and the Monica Lewinsky investigation.

0:46.0

And quite the treat it was.

0:48.2

And you know, when he talked about the Mueller investigation, and a lot of interesting things

0:54.2

to say, we asked him, among other things, about the report that he wrote.

1:00.8

That became basically the premise for impeachment proceedings.

1:04.5

It was a very aggressive kind of piece of legal advocacy.

1:09.6

And it was also this kind of weird combination of, you know, like a porn novel and a tabloid

1:15.2

report with all this legal ease mixed into it.

1:18.8

And it had every detail of every incident of sexual contact between Monica Lewinsky and

1:26.3

Bill.

1:27.3

And I looked at some of the report and I kind of blushed reading it, you know, I mean,

1:32.2

it's unbelievable.

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