 Leach did not think that the crimes surrounding the failure of the Whitewater-tied S&L should have been considered in an impeachment framework.Like many in Congress, he was surprised that the Justice Department chose to refer certain sex-related charges to Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, and even more so when Starr chose subsequently to refer certain of them to the Congress.But in what he described as a close judgment call, Leach voted for the article of impeachment that related to felonious lying under oath.