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To: American Spirit who wrote (8491)	5/16/2006 2:18:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 71588

Clinton should never have been put on the stand and asked about his sex life. The law perhaps should not have been passed, but Clinton signed the law himself. If it was good enough for everyone else it was good enough for Clinton. --- "This is a key aspect of the impeachment saga that was unaccountably ignored at the time. The amazing fact is that Clinton got into trouble by lying under oath in response to questions that could only be asked of him because of a law that he had signed. As Jeffrey Rosen details in The Unwanted Gaze (2000), in 1994 Clinton signed a crime bill containing amendments to the rules of evidence that permitted prosecutors and plaintiffs in sexual assault cases to question defendants about their sexual history in order to find possible previous offenses. While the new rules were mainly intended to assist in rape cases, the definition of sexual assault was so broad – “contact, without consent, between any part of the defendant's body or an object and the genitals or anus of another person” – that they would inevitably be used in cases that fell far short of rape. According to Rosen, legal experts warned Clinton and his feminist allies that the definition of assault was too broad, that the new rules would warrant an unprecedented intrusion into a defendant's privacy (as well as the privacy of women in the defendant's background), and likely result in the introduction of graphic sexual testimony. But for Clinton and the advocates of women's rights, such considerations could not be allowed to stand in the way." frontpagemag.com ---

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