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

To: one_less who wrote (6683)	10/2/1998 6:36:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<So, that brings us back to the "he lied to us" bit.>> Yes, and that's enough for me. If that is the case, whom are you going to replace him with? God? Now, don't tell me that there are politicians who don't lie to us! Dipy.

To: one_less who wrote (6683)	10/2/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 67261

emporium.turnpike.net ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION Impeaching William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE I William Jefferson Clinton, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct an investigation, to cover up, conceal and protect those responsible; and to conceal the existence and scope of other unlawful covert activities. This was implemented by: 1. Making or causing to be made false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States. 2. Withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States. 3. Approving, condoning, acquiescing in, and counseling witnesses with respect to the giving of false or misleading statements to lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States and false or misleading testimony in duly instituted judicial and congressional proceedings. 4. Interfering or endeavoring to interfere with the conduct of investigations by the Department of Justice of the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Special Prosecution, and Congressional Committees. 5. Approving, condoning, and acquiescing in, the surreptitious payment of substantial sums of money for the purpose of obtaining the silence or influencing the testimony of witnesses, potential witnesses or individuals who participated in illegal activities. 6. Endeavoring to misuse agencies of the United States. 7. Disseminating information received from officers to subjects of investigations conducted by lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States, for the purpose of aiding and assisting such subjects in their attempts to avoid criminal liability. 8. Making false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States into believing that a thorough and complete investigation had been conducted with respect to allegations of misconduct on the part of personnel of the executive branch of the United States and personnel of the Democratic National Committee, and that there was no involvement of such personnel in such misconduct. 9. Endeavoring to cause prospective defendants, and individuals duly tried and convicted, to expect favored treatment and consideration in return for their silence or false testimony, or rewarding individuals for their silence or false testimony. ARTICLE II Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposes of these agencies. In this conduct: 1. He has endeavored to obtain from the Federal Bureau of Investigation confidential information for purposes not authorized by law. 2. He has failed to take care that the laws were faithfully executed by failing to act when he knew or had reason to know that his close subordinates endeavored to impede and frustrate lawful inquiries by duly constituted executive, judicial, and legislative entities. 3. In disregard of the rule of law, he knowingly misused the executive power by interfering with agencies of the executive branch, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Criminal Division, and the Office of Special Prosecution , and of the Department of Justice, in violation of his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. ARTICLE III In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton ... has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized congressional committees. In refusing to produce these papers and things, William Jefferson Clinton, substituting his judgment as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency against the the House of Representatives, thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives. In all of this, William Jefferson Clinton has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice, and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, William Jefferson Clinton, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office. NOTE: With the exception of phrases in italics, the above is excerpted word for word from the articles of impeachment for Richard M. Nixon.