Starr's Wars, Episode II.

• Author: Shimansky, Reba
• Position: Letters

I was outraged that the editors of The Washington Monthly assigned Michael Isikoff to review Benjamin Wittes's book about Ken Starr ("Starr's War," May). Have you already forgotten that Isikoff was an all too willing ally of the loathsome Lucianne Goldberg in her effort to destroy President Clinton and his presidency? Isikoff writes that Starr was never a rabid partisan. At the time of his appointment as special prosecutor, Starr may not have had a reputation as a partisan, but that does not change the fact that he was one: He was a member of the right-wing legal group, the Federalist Society, and an advocate for Paula Jones. I first saw him on the "MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour" defending Jones's right to sue Clinton. The intensity of his hatred toward the president left an indelible...