Before you skip to the dirty parts of the Starr report (THE SCRAPBOOK assumes that, thanks to Al Gore's "information superhighway," you have a personal copy by now), there is a fascinating bit in the introduction called "current status of the investigation." It makes clear that last week's report on possible impeachable offenses by the president is hardly the end of the independent counsel's work.
"Additional events" are under investigation, including "possible perjury and obstruction of justice relating to former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey" as well as "the possible misuse of the personnel records of Pentagon employee Linda Tripp." Hmmm. Last summer, the Pentagon inspector general's investigation on the illegal release of Tripp's confidential files to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer by Defense spokesman Ken Bacon and his then-deputy Cliff Bernath was mysteriously side-tracked. Maybe Starr's prosecutors are about to fry some bacon.