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Inside: A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI. by I.C. Smith (Nelson Current, 376 pages, $26.99) Historians sympathetic to Bill Clinton often say that the final chapter on his life hasn't been written, implying that Clinton's life will appear more impressive over time. What's far more likely is that it will appear more buffoonish and corrupt than even critics during his lifetime realized. In Inside: A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies and Bureaucratic Bungling Inside the FBI, I.C. Smith provides historians with more testimony on Clinton's astonishing carnival of fakery. The FBI dispatched Smith as...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- In a prime-time television outburst, Bill Clinton ripped old nemesis Kenneth Starr and what the former president portrayed as a gullible media eager to report every ''sleazy thing" leaked from a prosecutor bent on bringing him down. The exchange came in an interview with ABC news anchorman Peter Jennings that aired Thursday night, hours after Clinton opened his $165 million presidential library. Clinton blasted Starr and spoke disdainfully of a media that he suggested was complicit in a scheme to ruin his presidency. ''No other president ever had to endure someone like Ken Starr," Clinton said....