Starr OKs Giving Panel Records Tied to Whitewater Case

The Whitewater prosecutor is allowing the FBI to give a Senate panel information on legal records found in the White House, including whether fingerprints from the Clintons or their aides were found.

An FBI analysis is said to show First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fingerprints on the 1985-86 billing records from her former law firm. The Republican-led Senate Whitewater Committee recently subpoenaed independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr for that analysis.

A May 23 exchange of letters between Starr’s deputy and a Republican counsel for the Senate panel shows that Starr objected to giving the committee the analysis itself but agreed that the FBI could provide certain related information. Copies of the letters were obtained Friday.

That information includes whether the FBI has identified the fingerprints of 25 named people on the billing records: The president and Hillary Clinton, former Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster, who committed suicide in 1993, and 22 other people, most of them current and former White House aides.

The billing records detail Hillary Clinton’s work at the Rose Law Firm for Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, the failed Little Rock thrift owned by James B. McDougal, the Clintons’ partner in the Whitewater real estate venture.