Ken Starr Needs Three Tries To "Speak Freely"

I wanted to follow up on the Ken Starr story at Baylor that I had a post on few days ago.  As you may remember, Starr was the special prosecutor in the Whitewater investigation of Bill Clinton which ended up being a witch-hunt into Clinton’s private life and infidelities. Numerous reports of sexual abuse on campus finally forced the administration into an internal investigation that showed an incredible failures by the school administration, especially when it came to accusations against members of the football team. After initially just being transitioned from President to Chancellor of Baylor University in response to that report, Starr decided to step down from that post last Wednesday so he could speak more freely about the need for transparency with regard to the accusations of sexual assaults on the Baylor campus.  As of now, Starr still remains as a professor at Baylor Law School.

Starr has always maintained that he was “behind a veil of ignorance” when it came to understanding the depth of the problems at the university.  Unfortunately for Starr, an email from a former student claiming she was raped and sent directly to Starr and other Baylor administration officials has been uncovered by ESPN’s Outside The Lines program. That kind of rips apart the “veil of ignorance” argument. And, when confronted with this email in an interview with KWTX television, Starr also displayed problems “speaking freely”. Take a look at the interview:

Now it’s not quite as bad as Bill Clinton’s “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”. But it certainly looks like he is using some pretty evasive language in his three(!) attempts to answer a rather straightforward question. The incredible irony of this happening to Ken Starr is hard not to notice.  But, as I mentioned in the prior post, the real tragedy is the many victims of sexual abuse who were considered as merely the price to pay for a football program that brought in millions of dollars for Baylor University. And that is something we don’t need a Starr-like investigation to see.