Word: starrs
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...disputes that the behavior exhibited by the President in the Starr Report was crass and distasteful. However, it is exactly this visceral reaction that mandates that the American people and Congress resist rushing to judgement by calling for the President's resignation or impeachment. Reason must take precedence over emotion...
...speech, with its sonorous biblical tone, seemed to prove is that the White House's emerging legalistic strategy--to shift the focus of the debate from what Clinton did to what insist he didn't do--is doomed to miss the big political mark. Even before independent counsel Ken Starr gets his report to Capitol Hill, the President's lawyers plan to submit their own defense on what they consider the legitimate questions of conspiracy and obstruction of justice, the questions raised by the "talking points" that Lewinsky gave her friend Linda Tripp, by the career help that Clinton...
...being told, took the subpoenaed gifts at Lewinsky's request, not the President's. According to this account, Currie stopped by Lewinsky's apartment to pick up a box labeled DO NOT DESTROY, which the secretary stored under her bed until its contents were turned over to Starr. Though the scenario conflicts with Lewinsky's version, and raises the obvious question of why Currie would agree to provide ministorage for Lewinsky without the implicit urging of her boss, it would help get Clinton off the hook for possible obstruction of justice. The President's lawyers also leaked word last week...
WASHINGTON: Better book your seat now for the Clinton impeachment hearings. As Congress returns to work Monday, the fate of Ken Starr's referral -- and of the President himself -- lies solely in the hands of Henry Hyde and his House Judiciary Committee. Their task is twofold: Decide how much more of that explosive document to release to a scandal-fatigued public, and ruminate on whether the prickly details warrant an impeachment inquiry. Hyde, however, doesn't need any more ruminating time. The chairman decreed over the weekend that hearings are necessary, but has graciously agreed to "hear from everyone...
WASHINGTON: Could it be true? Is President Clinton just about the only person in America who has managed to avoid reading any of the Starr report, as his deputy chief of staff John Podesta claims? It's a tidbit that betrays the siege mentality at the White House, where the leader of the free world is increasingly becoming the loneliest man in it. Clinton skipped even his regular church service Sunday (where his transgressions were the subject of the day's sermon), while his attorney David Kendall hit the talk shows to defend his client's indefensible semantic contortion -- that...