I agree with you. I heard Rush start with this the other day. Then, a caller actually brought up the hypocrisy, to which Rush responded. He even put his response on his website. But I found it very weak. I didn't think Rush answered the question sufficiently at all. As I recall, Ken Starr started out investigating a real estate deal?? By the time it was all over, it was perjury in reference to a harassment suit or something. I don't even know how it got from one to the other, but folks were happy to find any offense they could pin on the slick one. They'd have hung him for a parking ticket if that's all they could find. So yes, until someone splains what I'm missing, this looks like GOP hypocrisy.
Starr found prejury -- and that was no mere technicality. Clinton perjured himself in a lawsuit in which he was charged with sexual harassment. Suddenly, the liberals -- who had previously claimed that sexual harassment was a huge issue -- said, in effect, it was OK to cover up sex harassment through perjury. A despicable double standard. I was outraged by their double standard - - and by Clinton's perjury. IF conservatives now show a double standard on perjury (As Rush seems to be playing with, to judge by his comments this morning), then I'll be outraged by that too. I'm a conservative of the old school who believes that respect for law is a conservative principle.
Starr was given the other areas of investigation, FBI file, Lewinsky, etc. by Reno.