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Growg,luan anxious congress and restless public waiting, the independent counsel's office turned into a 24-hour operation. >> the last few days before the report was getting ready to go up are just a blur. we were all working around the clock. it did not let up. and there wasn't a lot of free time. so we made our own social life in the office. >> debate raged inside the office about just how graphic the report should be. >> to be honest, we struggled about the level of detail, and we did not want there to be anything gratuitous. >> certainly, that was something that individuals in the office k...

Up the elevator and loading it in and going away. >> and it was then up to the political process -- our 435 representative our 100 senators -- to decide, "what do we do with the truth?" >> on the next episode of "scandalous"... >> ken starr's office has finally delivered a report to congress, a report that could pose the most serious impeachment threat to a president since the days of watergate. >> the entire media establishment was on red alert constantly. what would this report say? >> the 455-page report reads more like something you'd find inpenthousemagazine than a grand jury investigatio...

>> the report was being focused around 11 counts of alleged wrongdoing by the president. >> every person was encouraged, "master the facts. those are the facts. now here's the law. do we believe that impeachable offenses may have been committed?" and every single person said, "yes." >> each of the counts detailed allegations that the president obstructed justice by committing perjury and trying to cover up evidence of his affair.

Decide. >> the report ended up laying out grounds for impeachment -- perjury in the deposition with respect to sexual conduct, perjury in his grand jury testimony, obstruction of justice, and the most controversial count, abuse of executive power. >> we set a very high informal working standard, and so that's why the referral went into the elaborate detail that it did -- airtight. and to my knowledge, to this day, not one sentence in the referral has been drawn into question in terms of its truthfulness. >> with the delivery of "the sta report" looming, tensions on capitol hill were at an all-...

Including 12 americans, and 4,500 more were seriously wounded. >> we will do whatever we can to bring the murderers to justice. >> it would be the first time many americans would hear the names "al-qaeda" and "osama bin laden." >> when the fbi was focused on examining monica lewinsky's dress, guess what -- there were a couple of dozen residents of saudi arabia and other gulf states learning how to take off in an airplane but not to land. shouldn't we, with the benefit of hindsight, say to ourselves, "what's important?" >> throughout the summer of 1998, ken starr's prosecutors were under immens...