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...Bill Clinton is not guilty of anything remotely like "high crimes and misdemeanors." And the only treason he is guilty of concerns his wife and daughter, not the national interest. What he is guilty of is having had an illicit affair with a woman half his age and then trying to cover it up by misleading us all and letting his friends and allies go to bat for him. All of these actions are truly reprehensible. But they are surely no justifiable cause for the removal of a sitting President...
...Saturday. Clinton lawyer David Kendall issued a second rebuttal, a 42-page addendum to Friday's 73-page installment. It contained further objections to Starr's report that already sound familiar: The President's acts were wrong but "do not even approach the Constitutional test of impeachment -- treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors... it is plain that sex is precisely what this four-and-a-half-year investigation has boiled down...
...Abiola appeared to win that election, even if he did it by dumping money on the electorate. But Nigeria's military bosses refused to accept the result and annulled the election. A year later, after Abiola proclaimed himself President anyway, a new strongman, General Sani Abacha, charged him with treason and clapped him in prison. After four years of mostly solitary confinement, Abiola's spirit appeared to be broken. He was so eager to be released that he seemed to renounce his claim to the presidency in a conversation only two weeks ago with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
...Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation by canceling free elections and silencing critics through imprisonment or execution; from an apparent heart attack; in Abuja, Nigeria. Perhaps Abacha's most notorious act as President was hanging the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight associates accused of treason...
...time at the Daily News was significant despite its brevity. His coverage of the loyalty program helped reinstate a sailor accused of treason and won him his first Pulitzer...