SENATOR HATCH ON 'MEET THE PRESS': IF CLINTON LIED, HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
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Sunday June 7 1998 10:55 AM EDT
Sunday June 7 10:55 AM EDT
Hatch: Prez stonewalling until election
WASHINGTON, June 7 (UPI) - Senate Judiciary Commitee chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says President Clinton is blatantly stonewalling independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation so his findings will not harm Democrats in the November elections.
Hatch, speaking this morning on NBC's ''Meet the Press,'' also said even if the investigation only reveals that Clinton lied about his sex life under oath, that should be grounds for his impeachment, even if he did not suborn perjury.
Hatch also said he resents ongoing attacks against Starr for the length and scope of his investigation. Hatch said the investigation would have been over long ago, but ''it does look at this time as though the president, and the people who are advising him, are stonewalling for one reason _ they want to bet through the November election....and possibly through the 2000 presidential election.''
Hatch added, ''I think starting to dawn on the American people that what's been happening, the stonewalling, the lack confirmation, that all of that is really the president's fault.''
Even if Starr's investigation reveals only that the president lied under oath about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky or others, Hatch said the offense would still be perjury. But, he said, Starr is ''going to have to have awfully strong facts in order for impeachment trial to go forward.''
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