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

To: Bill who wrote (5382)	9/25/1998 4:29:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 67261

<<But don't say Jones' motivation in a frivolous action excuses any willful misleading of the court or the public.>> I do say that, especially when combined with my view that Jones lawyers should never have been permitted to ask the Lewinsky line of questions. (The judge should never have put off ruling on its materiality, given the huge stakes involved with the President and the enormously likelihood of highly injurious leaks.) I'm NOT saying that these considerations are a complete defense to bald faced perjury. I AM SAYING that they very much go to mitigate, or completely excuse, the moral offense the President may be thought to have committed by being so misleading and slippery. He made that case himself quite persuasively in his GJ testimony. Doug