Editing Starr Report (section)

==Summary==
The long-awaited report cited 11 possible grounds for [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] in four categories: [[perjury]], [[obstruction of justice]], [[witness tampering]] and [[abuse of power]].<ref name=LinderUMKCSL/><ref name="CNN-starr-report">{{cite web| title=Explosive Starr report outlines case for impeachment| website=cnn.com | date=September 11, 1998| url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/11/starr.report/| access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref> These allegations all arose from President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.<ref>{{cite news| title=Starr Finds a Case for Impeachment in Perjury, Obstruction, Tampering| date=September 12, 1998| work=The New York Times| url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/091298clinton-rdp.html| access-date=May 16, 2019| via=New York Times print archives}}</ref>

In the report's introduction, Starr asserted that Clinton had lied under oath during a sworn deposition on January 17, 1998, while he was a "defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit" and "to a grand jury." He additionally alleged that Clinton had "attempted to influence the testimony of a grand jury witness who had direct knowledge of facts that would reveal the falsity of his deposition testimony; attempted to obstruct justice by facilitating a witness' plan to refuse to comply with a subpoena; attempted to obstruct justice by encouraging a witness to file an affidavit that the president knew would be false ... ; lied to potential grand jury witnesses, knowing that then they would repeat those lies before the grand jury; and engaged in a pattern on conduct that was inconsistent with his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws."<ref name="CNN-starr-report"/>

Starr included a detailed timeline of Lewinsky's various sexual encounters with Clinton during her White House internship. He concluded the report with a section entitled "Grounds," where he provided supporting evidence to each of the 11 grounds for potential impeachment of Clinton—including [[physical evidence]] such as the [[Genetic testing|DNA test]] results of a semen stain on a dress owned by Lewinsky which matched Clinton's blood sample. Starr also alleged that Clinton had conversations with witnesses during his investigation which he ascribed as "witness-tampering and obstruction of justice by hiding evidence and giving misleading accounts to lawyers for Paula Jones."<ref name="CNN-starr-report"/>