KENDALL: Let me return to a
question asked by Congressman Wexler this afternoon about a witness called Julie
Hiatt Steele. Have your investigators investigated
the adoption of her 8-year-old child she adopted from a Romanian
orphanage?
STARR: Mr. Kendall, my investigators work very hard and diligently to find relevant evidence. I
believe that the question is, and I have conducted no specific investigation, and you just spent a good deal of time establishing that I don't go with
my FBI agents on every single interview.
KENDALL: Mr. Starr, I
don't think it's unfair to try to find out
the fact because there has been considerable publicity about Miss
Steele's claim that that is, in fact, what your investigators have been doing. I was
simply asking to clarify the record.
STARR: Well,
in respect to some of her claims, some of her claims, and I am going to
say this, even though there is an active part of our investigation under way, utterly
without merit and utterly without foundation, utterly without factual foundation.
KENDALL: Is this one of those claims?
STARR: No, I did not say that Mr. Kendall. ...
Mr. Kendall, if there is an issue with respect to the treatment of the witness, let's
take it to court and have the court resolve it in an orderly way just as the Supreme Court of the United States said
that this particular individual is entitled to an orderly disposition of her claims.
