So where did you hear this? Can't find anything like it regarding Vince Foster, but people do feel that way about Ken Starr.
DAVIS: I think Ken Starr's primary fatal defect was a loss of perspective and proportionality, and that there was literally no limit on what ultimately was a sexual relationship investigation, and there was no limit, including calling a mother, including calling someone from the White House to ask what he was saying to the press about his fellow prosecutors. He lost perspective, and I think that's what's significant about the title of the book.
[WOLF] BLITZER: Did he lose perspective? Did he go too far in pursuing this case?
WEISSKOPF: Starr admits that he made some bone-headed choices, including calling the Monica Lewinsky's mother, that a man who was reputed to be so engaged in first amendment causes would make a mistake like that. But his idea of truth at any cost was that the system is based on rule of law and that until we get to the facts of the case, rule of law is not vindicated.
~ CNN Late Edition, Aired May 7, 2000 - 12:00 p.m. ET
Lanny Davis is the former White House special counsel for President Clinton.
Michael Weisskopf is the senior correspondent for "Time" magazine and he's the co-author of the book: "Truth At Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/07/le.00.htmlWhen the Independent Counsel Act was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1988, Justice Antonin Scalia presciently wrote in dissent, "The institutional design of the Independent Counsel is designed to heighten, not to check, all of the institutional dangers of the dedicated prosecutor; the danger of too narrow a focus, of the loss of perspective, or preoccupation with one alleged suspect to the exclusion of other interests."
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