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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (7568)	10/1/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 13994

WHITE HOUSE SCOFFS AT BID TO USE WATERGATE AS A MODEL By BRIAN BLOMQUISTand VINCENT MORRIS WASHINGTON - The White House yesterday called it laughable for the House Judiciary Committee to use Watergate as a model for impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said Republicans were making utterly ridiculous efforts to base the impeachment process on that used against Richard Nixon in 1974. The notion that there is any parallel is laughable, said McCurry, who read a list of the articles of impeachment against Nixon - but omitted mentioning the charge that Nixon lied to the American people. McCurry sought to make the point that Nixon's offenses were worse that Clinton's and that the Judiciary Committee should drop impeachment proceedings - which doesn't appear likely to happen. Among those who worked on the articles of impeachment against Nixon was Hillary Rodham Clinton, then a staffer on the Judiciary Committee. McCurry also accused former Clinton adviser Dick Morris of inventing a story about White House secret police and telling it to the grand jury. He just kind of made it up. But he made it up in front of a grand jury, McCurry said, insisting at the same time he wasn't accusing Morris of perjury because he hasn't read Morris' testimony. Morris claims Clinton has for years used private detectives to dig up dirt on his opponents and to intimidate women who have been linked to him into silence. The White House complaints came as Republicans in Congress moved toward an impeachment inquiry that could be expanded beyond Monica Lewinsky to draw on Filegate, Travelgate and other scandals. Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) wants no limits on the issues his inquiry explores, according to an early draft of the proposed impeachment process. Nor does he want a deadline for wrapping up his probe. Time limits are a recipe for gridlock, said Hyde spokesman Sam Stratman. I don't think we should be arbitrarily precluded from considering other areas, another member of the committee, Rep. Charles Canady (R-Fla.), told CNN yesterday. But the panel's top Democrat, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), complained about Hyde's tactics and willingness to run an investigation aimed at scoring political points and little else. Conyers, calling Hyde's idea unacceptable, said a majority of Americans want to see an end to Sexgate. Meanwhile, Ross Perot called for a petition drive to convince Clinton to resign - and implied that the president is abusing drugs. On CNN's Larry King Live the former presidential candidate said Clinton had entertained a Colombian drug dealer at the White House and added that several Clinton staffers were reported to have taken drugs during the president's first term. Either his brain is bad or he's taking something that makes him crazy periodically, Perot said. Take your choice.