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THE WEEK, Page 13NATIONThe Search Goes On
A special prosecutor will probe the Clinton passport caper
Someone told Elizabeth Tamposi to search through Bill
Clinton's passport files last fall. That at least will be the
working hypothesis of the special prosecutor, named at the urging
of Attorney General William Barr, to investigate lingering
questions about a campaign caper that threatens to involve
officials in the outgoing Bush White House. Chief of staff James
Baker and his aides insist they didn't. But their statements
contain troubling omissions and inconsistencies. Other evidence
suggests that top Bush aides were desperate to confirm -- and
publicize -- a rumor (false as it turned out) that the youthful
Clinton had taken steps to renounce his American citizenship to
avoid the draft.
A three-judge panel of the federal appeals bench named
former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova to conduct the probe of
senior Bush aides who have admitted they knew of the searches
as they were occurring and did nothing to stop them. DiGenova
must determine whether the Bush staff members in fact lied to
State Department Inspector General Sherman Funk or violated
Clinton's privacy with leaks. Regardless of the outcome, the
tawdry passport affair will cloud Bush's last days, and perhaps
someone's future.