Remember the last time a Special Counsel was appointed?
A brand new Clinton scandal had been popping up weekly and they came in every type and flavor. All the women, BCCI, Whitewater, Webster Hubbell, PROMIS Software, Mena, and even Tyson chicken were scandals bubbling to the surface. It was all too massive to investigated by a Senate sub-committee so they appointed a Special Counsel.
But Ken Starr was only to work on these major scandals part time, he kept his day job. Huge red flag #1.
And over time many earth shattering scandals drifted into the background only to be replaced by tiny nothings that didn't amount to a hill of beans. Instead of headlines screaming about an international banking scandal that put the Justice Department and former Mossad agents squarely in the crosshairs they dialed up something custom made for daytime drama - an intern named Monica Lewinski. Huge red flag #2.
Although this slight of hand shifted the focus of the American public away from major scandals that could have filled our prisons there were even more tactics within the Clinton Playbook yet to be employed. A full out frontal attack was waged against Ken Starr, thousands of documents would need to go missing, and private detectives would need to be hired to apply attitude adjustments to key witnesses. Some of those witnesses would go missing as well. Michael Jackson provided a bit of temporary relief for the Clintons when he dangled his baby from a hotel balcony. This sucked up all the media attention for a few weeks and acted as a sort of relief valve for the White House. Once the Jackson circus died down it was back to the Special Counsel, but with a twist. The pre-Jackson stories about the mounting number of Clinton scandals quietly faded away, never to be heard from again. Huge red flag #3.
So I wouldn't get too excited about today's headlines since things will twist and turn a hundred different directions before they find a landing spot. It will get ten kinds of ugly and don't be surprised if Kim Kardashian's butt factors into the melodrama somewhere down the line.
