>>No, the 3 Federal Judge panel decided where he could route his investigations.
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>I haven't seen their mandate, but you say "could" not "must."
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When some tangent came up, he presented the information to the judges. The Judges either approved or disapproved investigations into these other avenues. There is no other way to procede any differently since Starr was the investigator with the information. So Starr was only going wherever the information lead him, which, I believe, how any investigator works.

>>One of the news reports I just heard this morning was that the billing was at $400 per hour, with Starr being paid $87 per hour out of that. This is about average for Belt-way bandit lawyers.
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>$87 bucks? Is that all? Heck, some of us make more than that. :)

yeah, but that was before taxes, social security, insurance, etc. :)