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

To: j g cordes who wrote (7859)	10/6/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

So what? Besides you leave out key parts: "Throughout my entire legal career, I was trained that any member of Congress -- Democrat or Republican --was free to consult with me on any matter, and that I was to keep those consultations confidential," he said. "I am outraged that someone would give you that information." Mr. Barr, also a member of the HouseGovernment Reform and Oversight Committee now conducting a separate probe into campaign-finance irregularities involving Mr. Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, said the "web of Clinton campaign-related scandal" had grown to such "complexity and proportion," that the appointment of an independent counsel to look into the matter was not "a desirable alternative." "The independent counsel statute cannot be viewed as a permissible or desirable alternative to the constitutionally mandated process of addressing issues properly reserved for impeachment inquiry," he said. "To treat that law in such a manner would undermine our own constitutional obligations." Impeachment proceedings against the president or vice president require an investigation by the Judiciary Committee and debate by the full House in order to bring an indictment, and then a trial in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote to convict is necessary. Mr. Zeifman, whose assistants in the Nixon impeachment inquiry included lawyers Hillary Rodham Clinton and former White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, has become a vocal administration critic. He said in a November interview with The Washington Times that the administration's campaign-finance scandal was worse than Watergate "because the Democrats in my party are marching in lock step in support of a corrupt president." He said Mr. Clinton had "reactivated and exacerbated the cancer that became systemic in Watergate with respect to campaign financing." oaklandgop.com As I said, Zeifman is no blind partisan, he has ethics and a brain. No wonder the corrupt partisan Dems wanted to limit the inquiry to their obsession with sex.