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Clinton May Face Perjury Charges After Leaving Office
(The Washington Times <http://www.washingtontimes.com/>) Is there some chance that President Clinton, after leaving office, will be indicted for committing perjury before a federal grand jury? Gary L. McDowell, director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, thinks that may be the reason why a three-judge panel, on a 2-to-1 vote, decided to keep independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr in business.
"Lying under oath before a federal grand jury is certainly as serious a matter as lying under oath in a deposition in a pending civil suit. And if Mr. Starr is going to tie up his long investigation with no loose ends, an indictment against the president for the multiple counts of perjury alleged by both the independent counsel and David Schippers, the chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings, would be properly brought," Mr. McDowell writes in the Wall Street Journal.
Mr. McDowell points out that a number of Senate Democrats, in refusing to vote for the president's ouster, noted that Mr. Clinton could face criminal charges after leaving office.
The Journal, in a separate article, even quoted such Democrats as California Sen. Barbara Boxer as saying during the Senate trial that Mr. Clinton's supposed crimes would be best judged by the court system.
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