Ken Starr Reflects on ‘Prom Night’

NPR runs an excerpt from Ken Starr’s Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation.

“Our team dubbed the operation ‘Prom Night.’ Fresh from the gym, wearing purple sweats, Monica arrived. After Monica and Linda had chatted for a short time in the lobby, by predesign Steve Irons and several other FBI agents swept in. Identifying themselves, they did not place Monica under arrest, but simply invited her and Tripp to accompany them.”

“Our team of prosecutors awaited the women’s arrival in two adjoining hotel rooms on the tenth floor. I was standing by in my office. When they arrived upstairs, Monica turned on Tripp in a fury. She realized she’d been set up.”