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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: pezz who wrote (667)8/25/1998 7:24:00 AM
From: Bill  Read Replies (2) of 67261
 
Pezz, you've admitted that Clinton is a liar. His statement, "I did not have sex ..." cost this country 7 months and $7 million. Even you must admit that. But did you consider that he can be impeached for that without having committed a criminal act?

From Geoge Will's article:
Twenty-four years ago a study written (with the participation of Hillary Rodham) for the House committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon said: "From the comments of the Framers and their contemporaries, the remarks of delegates to the state ratifying conventions, and the removal power debate in the First Congress, it is apparent that the scope of impeachment was not viewed narrowly."

It argued that the pedigree of the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" pertains not to criminal law, not just to "crimes of a strictly legal character." Rather it has "a more enlarged operation." Its proper objects include offenses "growing out of personal misconduct" and a "wide range of . . . noncriminal offenses." Thus the articles of impeachment indicted Nixon for, among many other things, "making false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States" about his misdeeds.

I'd say Clinton's public lying is cause for impeachment.
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