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...Starr's report, though lacking the balance of Watergate independent counsel Leon Jaworski's effort 24 years ago, does one thing quite clearly: it offers a portrayal of a President who seems cunning but emotionally vacant, a man wasting his talents and powers on an empty affair with a woman who was in many ways still a child. Public revulsion may yet drive Clinton from office--not because he has been proved a Nixonian crook but because he has been proved an X-rated cartoon...
...President's lawyers say Lewinsky's claims about the gifts contradict Clinton's and Currie's testimony. Neither remembered the President's telling Currie to pick up gifts, some of which Lewinsky kept. Lawyer David Kendall says Clinton never told Lewinsky to lie and that Starr fails to prove Clinton intended to obstruct justice. He says Currie initiated Jordan's involvement in the job search and that "there was no connection" between the affidavit and job offers. He says Currie and Lewinsky were friends, so the cover stories weren't covers...
...Lied to the Kenneth Starr grand jury about his sexual relationship with Lewinsky...
...Friday and Saturday rebuttals, Clinton's attorneys say he didn't perjure himself and that Starr includes supposed examples of lies about sex only for "shock value." They say some of the questions he was asked were "ambiguous" and that he gave "narrow," not false, answers in response. They point out that one other person's testimony isn't enough for a perjury conviction. And they say Starr never proves that Clinton intended to lie--a requirement for perjury. One rebuttal says Starr's real complaint about Clinton's gifts testimony is that he "was not more forthcoming," which doesn...
Failing to admit wrongdoing for a time isn't abusing power. And the Executive Privilege assertion wasn't frivolous because Starr was intruding into "legitimate confidential discussions...