Ken Starr Appointment as Baylor President Blasted by Starr Grand Jury Witness Robert Weiner as Horrible Lesson for Students; Weiner Was Forced to Testify in Lewinsky-Whitewater Case

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert Weiner, a Ken Starr Grand Jury witness and Clinton White House staffer subpoenaed and forced by Starr to testify in the Lewinsky-Whitewater case, issued the following statement today:

It is astounding that Kenneth W. Starr has been appointed President of Baylor University, which until now has had a good reputation. It's a horrible lesson for students at Baylor and elsewhere.  Just think of what he brings as a classroom model.

Apparently students at Baylor will learn from the top that it is all right to investigate consensual sex when no one complains, to tape friends' conversations without permission, to force legal-age young people to testify about their friends' consenting sexual lives, to make mothers testify against their daughters when no crime is committed, to subpoena records of books bought at bookstores about legal subjects, to secretly subpoena home phone records of innocent witnesses and force them to testify in front of grand juries about private conversations with friends, to write titillating reports you know will be used fully in the press, to urge prosecutors to abuse their discretion and waste tax dollars by investigating consensual sex, and to claim you are doing all this for the good of the nation despite virtually all precedents protecting privacy and First Amendment rights which you are demolishing.

And they'll apparently learn that it's OK to spend $60 million of tax dollars over six years in proving someone has a private consenting relationship with no complaining party.

As one of the over 100 Clinton staff and friends whose lives were interrupted by Mr. Starr, who insisted we testify in front of his grand jury investigating the president's consensual relationship, I can say that his distorted view of the law is not one which should ever be disseminated to students as a model of what is right.  And this is not a partisan issue.  Republicans and Democrats alike detested how he violated personal privacy of physical relationships. 

(The writer was Director of Public Affairs for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy 1995-2001.  He now is President of an issues strategies group in Washington, DC.)

Contact: Bob Weiner 301-283-0821 or 202-306-1200

SOURCE Robert Weiner Associates

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