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

To: Janice Shell who wrote (8435)	2/26/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

"Appearance" of guilt is not a legal concept. We, um, want stuff like "evidence". Maybe even "proof". We (Starr) have things like um, 22 hours of taped conversations by someone who stated something utterly different in an affidavit under oath, and further, those 22 hours of conversation would indicate, however sadly, that our dear President may have besmirched his otherwise stellar reputation by yes, sadly, lying in an affidavit under oath to the court presiding over a sexual harrassment lawsuit brought against him. This sort of "evidence", maybe even "proof", would seem to, at minimum, warrant a little more checking into. Further, since our dear President has since insisted that his affidavit is quite correct regardless of the young lady's 22 hours of ramblings, the matter of trust between our leader and his people would seem to be under a bit of a strain. But while we're on the subject of "appearances of impropriety" not being a legal concept, do you recall a charge made by Democratic Congressmen that George Bush hopped into an SR-71 spyplane to meet up with the Iranians, to tell them not to release the hostages until Ronald Reagan was elected? When official military travel records showed that George Bush could not have been where he was accused to have been, certain senior Democratic Congressmen insisted that nevertheless, a Congressional investigation should be launched, because since there simply was the appearance of impropriety, an investigation was necessary to prove otherwise.