Washington - In a vote of 2 to 1, the US Court of Appeals has voted to let independent counsel Mr Kenneth Starr continue the Whitewater investigation of President Bill Clinton that led to his impeachment over the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Senior appellate Judge Peter Fay and US Circuit Judge David Sentelle said Mr Starr's investigation has been "unusually productive, having resulted . . . in the impeachment of a President", 24 indictments and 16 convictions. Judge Richard Cudahy, appointed by Mr Jimmy Carter in 1979, noted that the President had already been impeached and acquitted.
