KENDALL: In your testimony today, you indicated you had exonerated the president with regard to the travel office, if I heard you correctly. Is that correct?
    STARR: Yes, what I indicated was we had no information that related to his involvement, although I also made it clear that that investigation is continuing, and we hope to announce decisions or actions very soon.

    KENDALL: The travel office firings which you are investigating occurred in 1993, is that correct?
    STARR: Yes, the firings were in 1993.

    KENDALL: Also, if I heard you correctly this morning, you indicated you had exonerated the president with respect to the FBI files matter which had arisen in 1996. Is that correct?
    STARR: Yes, that jurisdiction did come to us in 1996 from the attorney general. And yes, we have found, as I indicated, no evidence of any wrongdoing by anyone who is relevant to -- I believe at least, in my assessment, I can't speak for the committee -- that would be relevant to the committee's assessment of our referral.

    KENDALL: Mr. Starr, when did you come to those conclusions?
    STARR: With respect to the travel office, I would frankly have to search my recollection to see exactly where we were and when we were there.
As I indicated with respect to the travel office, we have, in fact, had to put part off the travel office investigation -- and I'm now talking about the travel office -- I'll come to the FBI files --
we had, in fact, had to put part of the travel office investigation on hold, as it were, because of issuing over privileged litigation, which we did not prevail in the Supreme Court.
And there are other matters that we are presently examining, and which I can't talk about -- talk about here.

    KENDALL: But were the two exonerations you announced today -- did you come to those conclusions before or after Nov. 1, 1998?
    STARR: Before Nov. 1 of this year? Well, I would say that we have not had information that would guide us to the view that we should be concerned about the president in respect of those two matters, and that's why, of course, there's no mention of either of those matters in the referral.
But both matters were, in fact, continuing and no final prosecutorial decisions had been made with respect to either the travel office matter or now to address the FBI files matter.
With respect to that there is, as I have indicated, an unresolved question with respect to one individual.