1.   Starr believes Willey but lacked the evidence to include the incident in his impeachment referral.

2.   The text of the impeachment referral by the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, slipped noticeably.

3.   The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, was positively gleeful after Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr sent his impeachment referral to Congress last September.

4.   Three days after making that argument, Starr secretly petitioned a different panel of federal judges for permission to file an impeachment referral to Congress.

5.   Three days after making that argument, Starr secretly filed a motion with a different court asking for permission to make an impeachment referral to Congress.

6.   When Starr filed his impeachment referral last month with Congress, he disclosed the secret motion.

7.   While the impeachment referral inflicted considerable political damage, it also had the practical effect of clearing a number of Clinton aides of committing crimes.