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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (6023)	12/12/2000 8:29:01 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 6710

Just for fun.... With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2000 4:24 p.m. EST John Dean: 'Clinton Headed for Indictment' John Dean, the former White House counsel who blew the whistle on Nixon's Watergate cover-up and defended President Clinton on TV during impeachment, believes that Clinton is a sure bet for indictment early next year. "Of course [independent counsel Robert] Ray knows he is going to indict, and he has been preparing for battle," writes Dean this week on the legal Web site Findlaw.com. "He has a formal finding of a federal judge that the record in a civil lawsuit against Clinton [the Paula Jones case] 'demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the president responded ... by giving false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process.' " In light of the court's finding against Clinton, and the fact that half the members of the 106th Congress found Clinton guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice, "how could he not indict?" Dean asks. The Watergate whistleblower notes also that the last thing the independent counsel wants to see is Clinton recover millions of dollars in legal fees, which, under the independent counsel law, he'd be entitled to unless charges are filed. Dean predicts that if Vice President Al Gore becomes president, the Clinton indictment will be "a horror show" for him. "A Clinton trial would send phalanxes of fuming Republicans, all near paranoid in their conviction that Gore had stolen the election, into a partisan tizzy." Dean says that a Clinton pardon would be political suicide for Gore, who, after depriving Republicans of both the Oval Office and political revenge, could kiss any hope of bipartisanship in Congress goodbye. On the other hand, Dean argues, if Bush wins the White House, he's not only free to pardon Clinton; it would be "a political masterstroke." "It would be a chance to pacify partisan rancor, and offer an olive branch to the Democrats." The one-time Nixon counsel even suggests that Clinton, realizing Gore's hands are tied and not willing to accept a pardon from the son of the man he defeated in 1992, may decide to pardon himself. "Obviously [Clinton] will be politically attacked for pardoning himself. But can those attacks begin to equal the problems of an indictment and trial?" "Not likely," Dean says, noting that the prevailing legal opinion is that a president indeed has the power to grant himself a pardon.