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

To: Neocon who wrote (42842)	4/19/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Lies Revisited: Judge's contempt ruling removes Clinton's last fig leaf mercurycenter.com We interrupt this news report on genocide in Kosovo and other life-and-death matters to return you to a previous program ... ROUGH justice was delivered in Little Rock this week. The president who claimed he didn't lie about sex was found in contempt of court. A key witness who went to jail rather than, she says, lie about sex to convict him was found innocent of obstructing justice. If not parity, then there was at least poetry in the timing of actions in two Arkansas courtrooms Monday. The slap against President Clinton was direct, stinging -- and right. It yanks the last fig leaf from those, including perhaps the president himself, who deluded themselves into thinking that Clinton didn't lie about his affair with Monica Lewinsky in testimony in the Paula Jones lawsuit. And it imposes a civil penalty that the offense deserves: payment of potentially tens of thousands of dollars in Jones' lawyers' fees and the possibility of disbarment. The verdict in the case of Susan McDougal was an indirect slap at her persecutor and Clinton's prosecutor, Ken Starr. She was the one charged, but he was the one whose tactics were on trial -- at least in some jurors' minds. So they freed her to reprimand him. Clinton becomes the first sitting president to be sanctioned for contempt of court -- another black mark for the history books. And he can hardly claim it involved a matter of principle. Clinton had denied having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, even being alone with the White House intern. We now know he had many intimate encounters over their year-long relationship. In her 32-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright said the president gave ''false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process.'' To ''protect the integrity'' of the judicial system, she said, ''sanctions must be imposed, not only to redress the president's misconduct, but to deter others who might themselves consider emulating the president of the United States by engaging in misconduct ...'' Clinton's lies in the Jones case formed the basis for a count of impeachment that the House Judiciary Committee passed but that the full House ultimately rejected. Some members believed Clinton. Others thought he lied but that the offense didn't deserve removal from office. Now Wright has added her footnote to history. The impact of the decision will linger. Arkansas judicial authorities may sanction Clinton further, even rescind his right to practice law. And Wright's biting ruling is another reminder of Clinton's poor judgment as he struggles to assert his leadership in the Kosovo war. Clinton caused his own predicament, obviously by lying but also by failing to settle the Jones lawsuit earlier, before it cost him his dignity as well as $850,000. McDougal was arguably at least partly a victim of her own stubbornness and Starr's vindictiveness. Mind you, she's no ingenue. In 1996, she was convicted of fraud for an illegal $300,000 loan to a savings and loan that she and her late husband owned. And, for whatever reason -- loyalty or perversity -- for years she refused to tell prosecutors whether she knew of any wrongdoing that Bill or Hillary Clinton, her partners in the Whitewater land deal, might have committed. But she already had served 18 months in jail for civil contempt for refusing to answer questions to a grand jury when Starr then turned around and piled on criminal contempt charges as well -- a ruthless remedy. McDougal maintained that she kept silent because Starr didn't want the truth; he wanted her to lie so he could get Bill Clinton. The jurors may not have believed that, but they did conclude that she at least thought she was harassed, a basis for acquittal. The jurors deadlocked on two other criminal contempt charges, which means that Starr can afflict her with a retrial. He and prosecutors haven't made up their minds. Feeling vindicated, McDougal said her trial gave her a chance ''to tell the world what kind of man Ken Starr is.'' Her lawyer proclaimed the trial ''put a stake through the heart of Ken Starr.'' That may be cheerily optimistic. We suspect it may take more garlic than there is in Gilroy to stop this count-crazy Dracula.

To: Neocon who wrote (42842)	4/19/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I was not lurking...it was destiny that I would see your post at my first return to the box in many weeks...Telepathy... I felt your sorrow...how "Anagogic"! From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) Anagogic \An'agog"ic\, Anagogical \An'agog"ical\, a. Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication. -- An'agog"ically, adv. From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn) anagogic adj : based on or exemplifying anagoge [syn: {anagogical}]