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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (6829)	10/3/1998 7:26:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

If Clinton is David than Judge Starr is Nathan. When Nathan confronted with his sin, Dave didn't lie about it for 7 months or send out goons to dig up dirt on Nathan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (6829)	10/3/1998 8:46:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 67261

Did anyone see PBS's News Hour Thursday night? The New York Times' Anthony Lewis had his head handed to him by National Journal's Stuart Taylor. I know that Taylor was first in his class at Harvard Law and I believe that Lewis is not trained in the law, though I remember that he wrote "Gideon's Trumpet". So the most shocking thing said by Lewis was that Taylor had once been Lewis's student. If that is true, then the student easily surpasses his teacher. The student has become the teacher. On that show Taylor destroyed point by point Lewis's hysterical and utterly non-lawyerly rendition of the Starr inquiry. Lewis put on a very unfortunate performance for his side, doing what the Left always does when cornered by reality, he called names, this time Judge Starr as Stalin. When Lewis claimed prosecutorial excess and "perjury trap", Taylor displayed full command of the situation by stating that nothing Starr has done is unusual for a prosecutor and that Starr has beaten Clinton every time in the Federal courts. Lewis then counter-intuitively blamed Starr for what Clinton had himself done in his cover-up - eviscerating Presidential privilege for future Presidents. As for the apocryphal "perjury trap", Taylor noted that Clinton chose to commit perjury in an effort to protect his earlier lies, not his "privacy", which he had already given up by testifying to "improper relations". All in all an exhilarating performance by Taylor and one that anyone interested in Clinton's impending impeachment should see. Not so proud is to see Tony Lewis, the author of "Gideon's Trumpet", argue that power should trump justice, as his politics have trumped all, including his principles and intellectual honesty.