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

To: jlallen who wrote (17413)	12/5/1998 10:19:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Hyde Then and Hyde Now nytimes.com What point am I making for you, JLA? That you're an apoplectic blowhard? Sort of like Henry Hyde? I don't think you need anybody to make that point for you. The chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde, unwittingly set the stage for the exchange on Tuesday, in his solemn and seemingly uncompromising remarks about the evils of lying under oath. "If citizens are allowed to lie with impunity -- or encourage others to tell false stories or hide evidence -- judges and juries cannot reach just results," said Hyde, R-Ill. "At that point, the courtroom becomes an arena for artful liars and the jury a mere focus group choosing between alternative fictions." . . . But some people recalled what Hyde said in 1987, in Congress' inquiry into the Iran-contra affair. Defending the Reagan administration, Hyde said condemnation of all lying "just seems to me too simplistic." "In the murkier grayness of the real world, choices must often be made," Hyde said of the Reagan administration's covert aid to anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua. . . . To which Republicans on the Judiciary Committee replied Friday night, "Context does matter, and the facts of the Iran-contra affair and President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky could not be more different." True enough. Iran-contra involve secret wars, arms for hostages, and a coverup that never ended. Not to mention Geore "I was out of the loop" Bush. "No one lied under oath, after swearing to tell the truth, and no one ever lied for personal gain," said the Republicans' statement, issued by their spokesman, Paul McNulty. I guess McNulty never heard of Elliot Abrams, among others. He doesn't seem to have solicited Lawrence Walsh's opinion on the matter either. What's this personal gain thing, anyway?