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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32852)	6/2/2005 9:20:52 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

I think that this kind of speculation lowers us to the level of the pinheads who demean our President, his wife and his cabinet.... JMHO. J.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32852)	6/2/2005 2:28:18 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Much has been written about the need and desire of Felt's family to cash in on his 15 minutes of fame. I have no problem with this, but we're also hearing about how he is living in a converted garage at his daughter's house, and that she has taken care of him for 20 years. Before designating her for sainthood. I 'd like to point out that he has been receiving a federal pension all this time, and he retired at the top of the federal pay system I know very little about the federal system, but assume there are many here who can estimate what his salary was at the time he retired, and what his pension is, even assuming that he elected a reduced benefit option to provide a survivor benefitfor his wife.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32852)	6/2/2005 2:34:31 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

That's great, Bill. What are your thoughts on Linda Tripp doing basically the same thing? ________________________________________________ Clinton: Felt did right thing in Watergate affair (BWWA HAAA HAAA) CNN ^ \| 6/2/05 NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former FBI official Mark Felt "did the right thing" by leaking information to The Washington Post that helped lead to President Nixon resignation's in the Watergate scandal in 1974, former President Clinton said. "I think he did a good thing, and I think it was unusual circumstances," Clinton said Wednesday on CNN's "Larry King Live." Felt, once the No. 2 official at the FBI, was "Deep Throat," the secret source for Washington Post reporters in the aftermath of the bungled 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party offices in the Watergate complex. His identity remained unknown to the public for more than 30 years -- one of the best-kept secrets in the history of journalism. (Full story) "I think Felt believed that there was a chance that this thing would be covered up," Clinton said, referring to the break-in and Nixon administration's cover-up. "Ordinarily, I think a law enforcement official shouldn't leak to the press because you should let criminal action take its course. (Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32852)	6/2/2005 2:38:46 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Ex-president Bill Clinton is backing away from the deal he made with Independent Counsel Robert Ray four years ago, which required him to admit that he gave false testimony under oath to a federal grand jury.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (32852)	6/2/2005 2:41:49 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Here is the lefties' hero: Clinton: Impeachment Charges Were 'False' Ex-president Bill Clinton is backing away from the deal he made with Independent Counsel Robert Ray four years ago, which required him to admit that he gave false testimony under oath to a federal grand jury. In an explosive interview with NBC's Brian Williams broadcast Wednesday night, Clinton insisted that articles of impeachment passed by the House in 1998 - which included the accusation that he lied under oath - were false. "The charges that the House sent to the Senate were false," Clinton claimed for the first time since signing off on his 2001 plea bargain with Ray. "So I did a bad thing. I made a bad personal mistake. I paid a big price for it. But I was acquitted because the charges were false." On December 19, 1998, the House passed two out of four articles of impeachment against Clinton. Article One, charging that he committed perjury before the grand jury, passed 228 to 206. Article Two, perjury in the Paula Jones civil case, was defeated, 229 to 205. Article Three, obstruction of justice, passed 221 to 212, and Article Four, abuse of power, was defeated, 285 to 148. On January 19, 2001, after hammering out a plea bargain that allowed him to avoid prosecution and possible jail time, Clinton issued a carefully worded statement to meet Independent Counsel Ray's terms: "I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely," Clinton said in a statement read by his then-press secretary, Jake Siewert. "But I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish that goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false." In his Wednesday night interview with NBC, however, the ex-president blasted the press for covering the Monica Lewinsky investigation without telling his side of the story, which included the fact that he'd been impeached on false charges. "People in your business [liked the Lewinsky investigation] very much," Clinton told Brian Williams. "And they like what Ken Starr did because they thought it made good ink. "[But] they didn't do a very good job of reporting for years all the innocent people he persecuted and indicted because they wouldn't lie and the assault on the American Constitution that he waged or that I was acquitted. "And that the charges that the House sent to the Senate were false. So I did a bad thing. I made a bad personal mistake. I paid a big price for it. But I was acquitted because the charges were false."