Lee
pees way off the lows....usual typical overreaction...
cant wait for the morning
is there a site that gives you the
142.41 quote...I dont want to have to try to convert and everything i see gives the .70 quote
"The Sept yen is tanking also, down 136 to 0.7022 or about
142.41 on the $."
been awhile since we had a post about Clinton's debacle
so I thought I would remind you all
To: +Al Gordon (14418 ) (Trial Member)
From: +goldsnow
Sunday, Jul 12 1998 9:12PM ET
Reply # of 14426
Who needs meeting/golf more now Hashimoto?
Hatch: Clinton must testify about Lewinsky
03:40 p.m Jul 12, 1998 Eastern
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch
said Sunday any refusal by President Clinton to tesify about his ties
with Monica Lewinsky could constitute an impeachable offense.
The Utah Republican said Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr should indict
Lewinsky, a former White House intern, if he could not get her testimony
voluntarily and should name Clinton as an ''unindicted co-conspirator if
that's what it comes down to.''
''The story I get is that the reason why (Starr is) pursuing the
Lewinsky matter is because he has other evidence and other indications
that she doesn't want to tell the full truth on it,'' he said, referring
to her relationship with Clinton.
Starr has been investigating, as an add-on to the Whitewater real estate
tangle, whether Clinton had an affair with Lewinsky and encouraged her
to lie about it. Clinton and Lewinsky have denied the allegations.
Speaking on the NBC program ''Meet the Press,'' Hatch said he was ''not
necessarily'' opposed to the start of the impeachment process in the
House of Representatives if Clinton defied a subpoena to testify in the
criminal investigation.
Once subpoenaed, ''if he doesn't come in...tell the truth about what has
happened, then I think that's a very serious problem,'' Hatch said.
He added he favored being ''very, very tight'' on what constitutes
grounds for impeachment, the start of a process that could -- but seems
highly unlikely at this point -- to lead to Clinton's removal from
office.
Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Republican who appeared alongside
Hatch, suggested that this meant Hatch did not think defiance of a
subpeona alone would be enough to justify impeachment.
''Not necessarily, not necessarily,'' the Utah lawmaker shot back.
The U.S. constitution provides that the president be removed from office
''on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high
crimes and misdemeanors.''
The House has authority to bring articles of impeachment; the Senate
turns itself into a court to try the case and requires a two-thirds
majority vote for conviction.
Starr's aides have said he is weighing whether to compel Clinton's
testimony on the matter, something Hatch said Clinton should offer
voluntarily.
Lawyers for Linda Tripp, who taped Lewinsky's telephone conversations
about the alleged affair with Clinton, said Sunday they expected Tripp
to testify to the grand jury for at least another week.
That would make Tripp, a Pentagon employee and key witness in the
investigation, the person to give the longest testimony so far to the
grand jury, which last week wound up its 24th week reviewing perjury and
and obstruction of justice allegations concering Clinton and Lewinsky.
Anthony Zaccagnini, one of Tripp's lawyers, declined to ''discount'' the
possibility that she might write a book about the matter later but said
on NBC that she was not currently involved in one.
White House political adviser Rahm Emmanuel, appearing on the CBS
program ''Face the Nation,'' left open whether Clinton would comply with
any subpoena in the case.
He said the matter was being handled by Clinton's personal lawyer, David
Kendall. In a telephone interview, Kendall declined comment.
On another matter, Hatch called on the Justice and Treasury departments
not to appeal a new court ruling rejecting the Secret Service's attempt
to block its officers from testifying in the Lewinsky investigation.
He said he planned to hold hearings in the Judiciary Committee next year
to craft legislation to suit any need for a new legal provilege
shielding the president's bodyguards from having to testify about what
they observe while on duty.
Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited
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