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On April 9 Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote to Kenneth Starr recommending an investigation of the bait-shop allegations. Starr appointed the former Justice Department official Michael Shaheen to look into the matter. The decision meant that the Spectator, already barely able to pay its bills, would have to hire a lawyer to defend it in an open-ended probe.

Is it much of a stretch from this to say that the Clinton Administration used the Justice Department to put a publication critical of it out of business?

[an amused spectator]

Is it much of a stretch from this to say that the Clinton Administration used the Justice Department to put a publication critical of it out of business?

Is it much of a stretch to say that the Clinton Administration used certain national newspapers to try to put a website critical of it out of business? ;-)

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Is it much of a stretch from this to say that the Clinton Administration used the Justice Department to put a publication critical of it out of business?

That's what I got out of the facts of the article, too. TAS wasn't destroyed by hubris, it was destroyed by Clinton and his barking seals at Salon.com.