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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (5551)	2/9/1998 2:14:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

from Sunday's NYT's lead editorial: .....if Mr. Clinton and his staff understand the metabolism of a long-running Washington story. It is striking, for example, that the president's lawyers and political spokesmen keep relying on the scorched-earth tactics that work in the compact time frame of a campaign. But the rhythm of a governmental, as opposed to a campaign, scandal is different. After Election Day, everything ends. Victory is declared. Defeated victims become impotent ghosts, not potentially hostile witnesses," the newspaper said in an editorial yesterday. "A full-blown crisis is different. Like a biological life, it moves not toward a date certain, but toward a natural, organic completion that happens when it happens ... and that when the process starts, it overwhelms the classic defensive responses. One such response is a war on 'leakers,' such as that launched on Friday by Paul Begala and David Kendall. Another is the sliming of both the press and turncoat witnesses. "That tactic is particularly demeaning to this president. Since his veracity is widely viewed as suspect, his appeals to grand jury secrecy look more like a fear of truth than a defense of legal process." nytimes.com