Word: obstructionism
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Nationwide plagues of sexual harassment aside, what can we expect in the days and weeks ahead? "One thing is certain," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney. "House Republicans won't be very enthusiastic about pursuing an impeachment case over perjury and obstruction of justice charges that stem from a case...
WASHINGTON: The speed and efficiency with which the White House released letters that put Kathleen Willey?s reputation in question surprised many people, but none so much as Paula Jones? lawyers. They?d asked President Clinton to turn over ?any correspondence and communication? with Willey back in January, and received...
For all the dust and innuendo kicked up by the Jones filing, it had an important technical purpose: to get the case in front of an Arkansas jury. The Jones team's problem, it would seem, is that all the obstruction and suppression in the world won't help it...
Whatever damage the filing may have done to Clinton's position in the Jones case, it is even harder to gauge its impact on Starr's criminal probe. It is by no means clear that suppression of gossip can be the foundation of a federal obstruction-of-justice case. The...
In short, even if Starr could prove that Clinton fondled women, sought to obtain their silence through favors or intimidation and then lied about it, the prosecutor would still have difficulty lining up the chain of proof required in a criminal case. As a lawyer working on the case put...