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

To: Borzou Daragahi who wrote (25963)	1/5/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: Bob Lao-Tse	Respond to of 67261

Ironically, since I hadn't seen this post yet, I dealt with some of these questions (at least to some degree) in the statement I just posted. However, specifically: Did Clinton actually perjur himself to a Grand Jury? The muddy question. Did he lie like a rug? Absolutely. Did he perjure himself? I'm not a legal scholar and would be loath to try to answer this definitively. But as I stated in my last post, the purpose of removal is to open him up to criminal prosecution, so I think that the question is more accurately stated as "Does the evidence warrant a charge of perjury being lodged against him?" To this I would respond "Barely." It would require a lot of legal hair-splitting to either prosecute him or to defend him, so I really couldn't say. I know that people have been prosecuted for the intent to mislead, and I believe that one could certainly prove that this was his intention, but it's just too muddy for me. I personally think that he perjured himself by reiterating his perjurious deposition statements, but I also recognize the "rock and a hard place" bind that he was in. Sorry I can't be more specific. Did Clinton's actions constitute a conspiracy to obstruct justice or the frantic moves a man trying to cover up an adulterous affair? I would tend to think that they were actually an attempt at obstruction, since they were attempts to cover up an affair that he had denied engaging in while under oath. And above all, do these allegations, even if true, constitute an impeachable offense? If true, absolutely. This is my logic- Perjury is a felony. A felon can't even run for President, so a felon certainly could not be president. -Bob