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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: j_b who wrote (1811)	8/18/1998 5:43:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

If he refused to answer based on his 5th ammendment rights, I would agree with you. If he just refused to answer because he felt the questions were no one's business, he would be in contempt (as was seen with Susam McDougal). Actually, probably no. Another famous Clinton technicality. Because he's appearing voluntarily, not under a subpoena (which was withdrawn), it's not clear that there is any court order which he would be violating. Maybe they got an order through the court stating he would answer all questions, but more likely it was just a letter agreement without the status of a court order. This may be why they're threatening to bring him back -- if he were under subpoena, then if he didn't answer and didn't invoke either his 5th amendment rights or some legally recognized privilege (such as spousal), THEN he would be in contempt. But if there's no actual court order, he can't violate a court order (though he can perjure himself since he is under oath.)