I’m getting a lot of e-mail from people saying, “How dare you criticize Fitzgerald when you said nothing about Ken Starr!” For the record: I opposed the appointment of an independent counsel in the Whitewater case — even considering that Clinton himself asked for one — and the day after the Monica Lewinsky revelations, I wrote an editorial for the New York Post stating flatly that Clinton would never be removed from office for a sexual pecadillo. I later elaborated on this point to say that if Starr could not demonstrate there had been a quid pro quo — a job at Revlon for Monica’s silence — the whole prosecution would be misbegotten. So you can all go soak your heads.