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Thursday, July 9, 1998
Starr to examine Secret Service agents
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
WASHINGTON, July 8: Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr has scored a big victory with an appeals court ruling supporting his effort to question three Secret Service agents about President Bill Clinton's relationship with former intern Monica Lewinsky.The unanimous ruling yesterday upheld a lower court decision that in this specific case, the service could not prove its agents should be exempt from testifying. ``The Secret Service has failed to carry its heavy burden of establishing the need for the protective function privilege it sought to assert in this case,'' the court said in its 11-page opinion.``Ensuring the physical safety of the president is a public good of utmost importance,'' the court said.But it rejected secret service arguments that it could not do its job if the president distanced himself from agents he felt he could not trust. Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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