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

To: trouthead who wrote (4916)	9/11/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 13994

JB - "acceptable as long as it never happens again." Hmmm, from that I see you're assuming this has never happened before? BTW - if he had been a garbage collector, as in your example, he would have at least been fired. Mr. K.

To: trouthead who wrote (4916)	9/11/1998 5:15:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 13994

Sick is not being charged with adultery. He are the provable charges: The information reveals that President Clinton: lied under oath at a civil deposition while he was a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit; lied under oath to a grand jury; attempted to influence the testimony of a potential witness who had direct knowledge of facts that would reveal the falsity of his deposition testimony; attempted to obstruct justice by facilitating a witness's plan to refuse to comply with a subpoena; attempted to obstruct justice by encouraging a witness to file an affidavit that the President knew would be false, and then by making use of that false affidavit at his own deposition; lied to potential grand jury witnesses, knowing that they would repeat those lies before the grand jury; and engaged in a pattern of conduct that was inconsistent with his constitutional duty to faithfully execute the laws. The evidence shows that these acts, and others, were part of a pattern that began as an effort to prevent the disclosure of information about the President's relationship with a former White House intern and employee, Monica S. Lewinsky, and continued as an effort to prevent the information from being disclosed in an ongoing criminal investigation.

To: trouthead who wrote (4916)	9/11/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

It's nice to read a rational post. Your example of the garbage man is apt, he probably wouldn't go to jail. I would submit that there are 2 other issues here 1) The president is supposed to set an example 2) the testimony about not being alone with Monica extended the lie beyond denying sex and on to something else. You may be right about what we should do. I'm torn by conflicting thoughts. I really don't want the country to go through impeachment, but I think he needs to be punished. As a president he has been fairly good (thanks to defeat of his worst ideas like socialized medicine, and to Mr. Greenspan, and a Republican congress) but as a person he is a real failure. I wonder how history will judge him.

To: trouthead who wrote (4916)	9/11/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: j_b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

<<Let's say he was a garbage collector, accused by a woman of sexual harrasment, who then lied about previous sexual encounters during the trial. Especially in light of the fact that the Paula Jones case was thrown out as having no merit. Are you ready to spend time money to put that garbage man in jail? I don't think so.>> This tack has been tried already. Apparently there are a number of cases where people have been prosecuted for perjury in a federal civil case that is under appeal. It is a crime, and it is prosecuted. These cases were brought to light when the Clinton supporters tried to claim that this was selective prosecution - that no one had ever been tried for perjury in relation to a civil suit.