Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Irancontra Affair? Illegal shipments of arms to Iran (then a sworn enemy), illegal shipments of arms to the contras and drug smuggling by the CIA? Reagan pled innocence by ignorance and let John Poindexter and Oliver North take the fall. And we all know that Bush was telling the truth when he said that he, too, was "out of the loop." Yeah, right...
...prosecutor labels this obstruction of justice by Clinton--concealing the truth by concealing the gifts. But Currie's testimony disputes Lewinsky on the key question of who initiated the call. Currie said Monica called her first and asked her to take the gifts. Currie testified that she didn't remember talking to the President about the gifts before or after she fetched them from Lewinsky, which raises the question, What would have motivated Currie to act on her own initiative? Still, the White House notes that Starr's report relies on Lewinsky's version of events as accurate and dismisses...
...that his Aug. 17 address to the nation was "not contrite enough," he dug a little deeper into himself and came up with this: "I don't think there is a fancy way to say that I have sinned," he said, explaining that he had reached "the rock-bottom truth of where...
...impeachment proceedings in Congress raises numerous troubling questions regarding the credibility of that evidence. Indeed, given the limited role of a grand jury in our system and the total absence of procedural protections in the process, the Independent Counsel's insistence that his investigation has been a search for "truth" is deeply misleading. In fact, it has been a one-sided effort to present the worst possible version of a limited set of facts... The grand jury's historic role is not to determine the truth but rather to act as an accusatory body...
...doesn't matter, because he did what we wanted. The truth is, we originally got into this thing because it's cool to watch numbers go up. That's why the Dow Jones is such a star and why it's kind of fascinating to watch the votes come in on C-SPAN, even though you don't know what people are voting on. (Come on, Dems, you lazy bums! Get to your seats and vote!) But once this chase became so big, we had to look for a deeper explanation, something greater than the obvious self-satisfaction of being...