The Starr Report as analyzed by the staff of The Washington Post

The entire sequence of events :

• The OIC's delay in requesting jurisdiction
• The OIC's pressure on reporters to withhold public disclosure of the matter,
  ( Stephen Brill, "Pressgate" in Brill's Content ( Aug. 1998 ) at 127( "Isikoff says that when he talked to Starr Deputy Jackie Bennett Jr. trying to call Jordon, the White House or Lewinsky about his story Isikoff says he agreed to hold off in exchange for getting a full report on how the stings had gone" )
• The OIC's unwillingness to permit Ms.Lewinsky to contact her lawyer
• The OIC's dispatch of Ms.Tripp to brief the Jones Lawyers about the fruits of her illegal taping the day before they were to depose the President

Suggests An Intention by the OIC to ensure that the expansion of jurisdiction was kept a secret until the President and Ms.Lewinsky had given testimony under oath and ( if Ms.Lewinsky could be so persuaded ) she had been enlisted to do surreptitious taping.

IN  OTHER  WORDS

Rather than taking steps to defer or avoid any possible interference with the Jones Case, The OIC did everything in its power - and some things outside its authority : TO  SET  UP  A  CASE  AGAINST  THE  PRESIDENT.