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

To: John Lacelle who wrote (19217)	12/14/1998 11:30:00 AM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

John, You're really comparing apples and oranges here. There's a huge difference between a journalistic investigation and a prosecutorial one. Woodward and Bernstein brought down Nixon with their investigative reports published by the Washington Post. Woodward and Bernstein are journalists. They can't "bring anyone down." They don't have the legal authority. Furthermore, Woodward and Bernstein used to go to the homes of Grand Jury members and ask them questions. If Ken Starr had done this, he would have been thrown in prison. Woodward and Bernstein are not sworn officers of the court, bound to uphold and abide by all the decorum of the courts. Funny how the bar is always* higher for Republicans.* More accurate: "Funny how the bar is different for journalistic vs. prosecutorial investigations." Funny how people claim the Starr Report was all lies and 1/2 truth and supposition. ???The central facts of the whole affair are not really in dispute: Clinton had an affair, he lied about it in a deposition, he tried to cover up the lies, he obfuscated about all of this in Grand Jury testimony, and in his answers to 81 questions.