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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16581)	12/1/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

Clinton Falls Back on Old Strategy in Dealings With Judiciary Committee nytimes.com Finally, another piece from today's paper. "No accused," President Clinton's lawyers wrote in September in response to perjury accusations leveled by Kenneth Starr, "has an obligation to help his accuser." That creed has guided Clinton this troublesome year as he has dodged questions from Paula Jones' lawyers, from Starr's prosecutors, and, now, from the House Judiciary Committee. The White House on Monday said that Clinton will decline the Judiciary Committee's invitation to appear before it to answer additional questions and to defend his actions. The president is under no obligation to help those who are trying to do him in, said Joe Lockhart, the White House press secretary. No, no. Ken Starr, in his impartial search for justice, can do whatever he wants, even if it's tactics normally reserved for drug kingpins and mafia dons. For Clinton to defend himself is obstruction of justice, though. Clinton's advisers say that the panel was not looking for facts in the detailed questionnaire. Rather, they say, the Republican majority on the committee had handed Clinton a loaded gun and asked him to put it to his own head. The president and his lawyers said no dice. Awe, come on. Papal Knight Henry Hyde is looking for truth and justice, just like Starr. There's no politics involve in any of this, except "partisan hatred" by those who question the inquisitional tactics. This article isn't particularly complimentary to the President, but politics is a blood sport these days. Clinton's got a right to use lawyers, too. Oh, I forget, Starr and company are objective, non-partisan, professional, just looking for the truth. Politics only cuts one way on this one.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (16581)	12/1/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 67261

Saw an interview of Ms. Steele by Diane Sawyer yesterday. Steele was saying that if you ever get into Starr's clutches and say anything that doesn't fit into his scheme of things, you are liable to be promptly slapped by him with a perjury allegation! In this case, Starr is digging into INS records to investigate Steele's adoption of a 7-year-old Romanian boy. Any sensible person who saw the interview will come out feeling that Starr is some kind of a mental case, a rabid, blood-thirsty, frothing-at-the-mouth fiend who will not hesitate to poke his nose into anything and everything in anybody's life if it serves his deranged and fanatical attempts to destroy Clinton.