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WASHINGTON: It's up to the House now. After the Judiciary Committee voted Monday night to recommend an impeachment inquiry -- splitting 21-16, strictly along party lines -- President Clinton's fate will be sealed by a full floor vote due later this week. Not in terms of the probe itself; Republicans have more than enough votes to make that happen. Rather, it's a question of moral legitimacy: Will 50 or 60 Dems cross the aisle in a show of bipartisanship, as they did for the release of the Starr report? Or will it be no more than a handful...
...obstruction-of-justice charge now leveled against the President--that the job hunt was a setup devised by her--it goes to the heart of the case against Clinton. Since the apparent obstruction was Starr's pretext for investigating the entire affair, the Clintonites say, the basis for the probe was fundamentally illegitimate. The new details, says presidential counselor Doug Sosnik, "only reinforce that this is a 10-month overhyped case highlighted by groundless charges of obstruction of justice." That has long been the White House line, but the new details give the argument added weight...
WASHINGTON: The Clinton counterattack continues. This week's theme: Did Ken Starr rely on weak and faulty evidence to persuade his superiors to let him expand his Whitewater probe into Monica Lewinsky? Investigating the investigator is nothing new, of course. As recently as Friday, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee tried -- and failed -- to pass a resolution asking Starr to give Congress an account of the crucial opening days of his investigation. But White House aides plan to use the release of the Tripp tapes, due Thursday, to focus attention on how Starr's whole case started out with...
...some of the air having leaked out of the impeachment balloon in the wake of President Clinton's videotape performance, the backroom maneuvering on Capitol Hill has become increasingly intense -- and openly partisan. Speaker Newt Gingrich nixed minority leader Dick Gephart's request to strictly timetable the House impeachment probe Wednesday, saying it "puts the cart before the horses." An angry Gephardt responded by denying Gingrich a joint photo-op following their meeting Wednesday, perhaps the most potent political snub there is. It's a sign that Democrats are taking heart from the President's poll numbers and getting behind...
...Considering Tripp's low standing in the public esteem, such a probe may turn out to be a bold p.r. move on the prosecutor's part. Couple it with the ongoing investigation in Maryland over whether Tripp knew her wiretap was illegal, and it adds up to a whole lot of trouble for the informant extraordinaire. Not to mention what may become -- in female eyes, at least -- the most inexcusable charge: that she persuaded Lewinsky not to wash the stained Gap dress by telling the former intern she "looked fat" in it. "I hate Linda Tripp!" a tearful Lewinsky told...