Word: subornation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over executive privilege in the Lewinsky case. Judge Norma Holloway Johnson declared Clinton aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal are required to spill the beans on chats with their boss about the former White House intern. "If there were instructions from the President to obstruct justice or efforts to suborn perjury," Johnson wrote, "such actions likely took the form of conversations involving the President's closest advisers." Flush with that success, Ken Starr is doing an end-run round a Clinton appeal -- by taking the entire executive privilege case to the Supreme Court...
...When game is afoot, royal-watchers routinely engage in round-the-clock stakeouts, read lips with binoculars, suborn servants, chase their prey at crazy speeds in high-powered cars. There has been so much of this mad motoring that the wonder is that no member of the royal family or the public has been killed." --Feb. 28, 1983, from a cover story on "Royalty vs. the Press...
...charges against Clinton are true, he could be in the worst legal spot a President has been in since Nixon was forced from office. Evidence seeping out in the media could support charges of perjury, suborning perjury and conspiracy to suborn perjury, all serious crimes. They could also, as some Republican Congressmen have begun to declare, rise to the level of the "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" the Constitution requires for impeachment. Other players in this drama may also be in legal trouble, including Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan, Lewinsky herself and even White House turncoat Linda Tripp. But obstruction-of-justice...
...Suborning perjury, or at least conspiring to, may be the strongest charge against Lewinsky. Starr reportedly has a set of written "talking points," which appear to have been written by a lawyer, that Lewinsky used to urge Tripp to tailor her testimony to protect Clinton. That could be conspiracy to suborn perjury. This talking-points document is already being touted as Starr's strongest weapon to force Lewinsky to cooperate in a case against Clinton...
Starr could also possibly pursue an array of conspiracy charges. If Clinton worked through Jordan or another intermediary to get Lewinsky to lie, as has been alleged, it could be conspiracy to suborn perjury or obstruct justice. The same would be true if Clinton and Jordan discussed getting Lewinsky a job in exchange for her false testimony, or if anyone inside the White House or out helped her prepare the talking points for Tripp...