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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim kelley who wrote (3714)	9/18/1998 5:44:00 PM
From: j_b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Lies are not crimes for which the president can be removed.>> Why not? Impeachment has nothing to do with crimes in the legal sense. Let's look at a different case - LBJ. He lied regarding the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and used the lie to imbed us more deeply in Vietnam. I would think that something like that (or possibly Iran/Contra if Reagan could be shown to have lied regarding that) would qualify as a lie that had crossed the line into abuse of power. Neither one is illegal, but I would think they would qualify as grounds for impeachment. Nothing to do with Clinton, I know, but your basic premise is flawed. Perjury need not be proven to proceed with impeachment. High crimes and misdemeanors is not a legal term, but a political one.