hour ordeal in which she was confronted by fbi agents and lawyers working for independent council, ken starr long complained she was mistreated, dissuaded from contacting her lawyer by the fed's heavy handedness. and we learned a federal review of the incident concluded she was right. ken gore amly is the author of "the death of the american virtue: clinton versus starr" and he interviewed lewinski, bill clinton and ken starr and joins us from pittsburgh. of what significance is this new review, this new report. i shouldn't say new, but newly coming to light? >> well, michael, it was one of the remaining mysteries of this whole thing, because it was kept under seal. and this report is significant, because i think it vindicates monica lewinsky, and it shows that her account of the events in terms of how she was treated by the office of independent counsel and the fbi during that sting was accurate. and that there really were mistakes made. >> dean gormly when they confront her in the mall, she says f-you or f yourself. and they say if you call that lawyer we're not going to be as forthcoming

way before ken starr on that.of '72. nixon resigns in august of '74. shortly before he resigned there was big question who owns the presidential materials, tapes and papers and all that. in the early '70s, who is just dying to be part of the nixon administration but antonin scalia. he gets hired. he is in the office of legal counsel and he is, he comes in trying to remember exactly the timing. but it's, he writes, he is working in the ford administration which of course gerald ford was nixon's vice president. he takes over in august of 1974. can't remember the exact date that scalia comes into the office of legal counsel. that is very important part of the justice department. he was assistant attorney general for that division. and he is asked, by president ford and his people, what constitutional, constitutionally who owns these papers? what has the tradition been? justice scalia writes an opinion as a lawyer in the justice department saying that the papers belong to president nixon or any president and congress,

so everybody who's listening knows of ken starr as a former solicitor general. they know him mostly for the monica lewinsky report during president bill clinton's impeachment. >> host: and a president of baylor, right? >> guest: yes. is that what comes to peoples my first? no. it is also solicitor general of the united states and people forget that because all the starr report and the monica whiskey. he is president of baylor, but back in 1981, he was an assistant in the justice department who was tasked going to visit arizona and to visit this woman had never heard of, sandra day o'connor come to see could she possibly be material for the u.s. supreme court? he goes out there with another guy, jonathan rose, who still an active lawyer in town, and they go to her house in scottsdale -- >> host: paradise valley. >> guest: paradise valley. i could remember which suburb. how could i forget paradise valley? and she has, this is something interesting, jewish is recovering from major surgery. she's recovering from major surgery during this incident. she's someone who

"the washington post" has uncovered a report from 2000, commissioned by ken starr's successor to investigatened in that interrogation. the report found that the prosecutor who confronted lewinsky, quote, exercised poor judgment and made mistakes in his analysis, planning and execution of the approach. that through the investigation, lewinsky was crying, sobbing, regaining her composure, screaming, and that she tried in various ways to contact her lawyer, but was advised not to consult with anyone. faith, did prosecutors go too far threatening miss lewinsky? >> well, first, if someone asks for their lawyer and you're a prosecutor questioning them, that's when you fall back. you fall back and call their lawyer into the room. at this point, they know they're dealing with a young woman who is very impressionable. who obviously made some mistakes with her life, but they are now threatening her with the rest of her life, spending it in prison. so they took a very hard and, in my opinion, cruel approach. in the way they questioned and treated monica lewinsky. a lot of people did, unfortunately. >>

the report commissioned by ken starr's successor says a prosecutor who threatened lewinsky with jailistakes in his analysis, planning and execution of the approach. it goes on to say the matter could have been handled better. lewinsky was pressed by fbi agents, immediately agreeing to wear a wire against the president. she was in a hotel room with these guys. even as she tearfully asked to have a lawyer or her parents during the 12-hour grilling. >> this woman was used and abused by powerful men mainly but powerful men, powerful women, powerful everybody. republicans, democrats. you name it. her life's been destroyed over the past 20 years. >> she was raked over the coals in the press which she talked about, but meanwhile, this was going on behind the scenes. >> traumatized. made stupid and immature decisions as a young woman and is paying for her entire life. everything she does. she's probably not gotten job because of it. >> oh, definitely. >> all right, the "los angeles times," facebook has not been allowed in china for years. a visit with college students, founder mark zuckerber