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

To: RJC2006 who wrote (2473)	8/21/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Okay Bob, Ken Starr is going to file a report to Congress where he'll just talk about any ol' thing he pleases. "How're you guys doin' up there? By the way, the Porterhouse Steak at the Capitol Grill is Deeee-licious." Don't be a chucklehead. Of course he's going to detail crimes that he believes that deserve impeachment; why else would he file an interim report with Congress? "Hey guys, I've spent 55.643 million dollars so far. Isn't that Lewinsky HOT?!" What is the "truth" except the accusation that the President broke the law. "On August 5, the President woke up at 6:30, he had a hearty breakfast, read the paper for 23 minutes. Whereupon, he got up and walked over the East Wing." You are getting hysterical Bob.

To: RJC2006 who wrote (2473)	8/21/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: Las Vegas Lou	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

Many people on this thread have never been involved in long drawn out litigation. I have. Thanks to my exwife. One of the ways to win if you are losing is to paper the proceedings with exhibits and documents. Also the longer you draw out discovery the worse the guilty party will look. If you are guilty and want to walk, you want to flood the court with documents because you know that no one will read everything. You also want a short discovery. Lastly you want to make the issues as complex as possible so they can't be explained easily to a judge or jury. Every time I went to court my attorneys and I used Peter Lynch's crayon imperative. If you can't draw your reasons for investing in a company with a crayon in five lines or less, sell. I can tell you that we worked long hours into the early morning hours simplifying complex financial issues, expert testimony, and thousands of documents into issues that could be described with a crayon. I can personally attest to the hundreds of hours that were spent going through depositions of ungodly length to find the one or two statements that conflicted with other documents. A court case is not like Matlock or Perry Mason. It is a disgusting amalgam of lies, half truths, disingenuous statements and posturing. Kenneth Starr is going for the crayon principle. He could bring Whitewater charges but he risks having the other side turn it into a confusing morass of numbers and obscure interpretations of the tax code. The perjury and obstruction of justice charges are very easy to illustrate to a judge or jury and that is why he is outlining them as the major thrust. By the way, when I entered into this litigation my attorney's made me promise to never lie. I told them I was too stupid to lie. They told me I was wrong. They said I was too smart to lie. Because I never lied my attorneys were able to go to bat for me in the full knowledge that they would never get the rug pulled out from under them. Many of my friends who have since asked me for advice in their own litigation and I always tell them not to lie to their attorneys. I have referred several people to my team and they have always made it clear they don't want the business if the client is going to lie. In my case there was a lot of bad stuff that hurt my case and my attorneys told me that handling the bad stuff was their job and that I should always be as honest as I possibly could. Because of this trust I was able to force a settlement favorable to me when we found out my exwife and her attorney had sought to mislead us and the court. The fact that Clinton would lie to a court and then to a grand jury indicates that he was and is a third rate lawyer as well as a felon. He is a complete disgrace and whether he is impeached or not I hope history will treat him with the scorn he deserves.