Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threatening to prosecute Monica Lewinsky and her mother unless the former intern gives him the story he wants, Starr may well be encouraging Lewinsky to bend--or even break--the truth. Lewinsky knows that without transactional immunity, she could be prosecuted for past perjury, since her sworn affidavit is apparently different from what she said on the tapes. The President's lawyers do not have the power to rescue her from this jeopardy. Indeed, they cannot offer her anything--or even talk to her. Starr can offer her full immunity. But he will not do so unless her story...
...have had several clients who were tempted to stretch the truth in order to get a better deal. In at least one case, a client tried to invent an elaborate story against a public official in exchange for his freedom. Fortunately, when pressed by his lawyers, he admitted that the story was false and that he made it up because it was the only way he would save himself from imprisonment...
...Kenneth Starr were really interested in getting at the truth, he would immediately give Monica Lewinsky transactional immunity without first requiring her to proffer an incriminating story against the President. He could then compel her to testify in front of the grand jury. If she testifies that the President did no wrong, the immunity would still protect her from being prosecuted for any past crimes, but if Starr could prove that she lied in front of the grand jury, the immunity would not protect her from perjury charges for that testimony. There is no valid reason, therefore, for Starr...
...defense lawyer were ever to try to influence the testimony of a witness by threats or promises, he would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice even if he coerced the witness to tell the truth. But prosecutors are not subject to the same rules...
...course, governments in every country occasionally lie to their people. The difference is that in Japan this practice has long been acceptable. "The government is structured in a way that it regularly does not tell the truth," says Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of history at Tokyo's Chuo University. "They simply demand our trust." Yoshimi made headlines several years ago when, after painstaking research, he documented the charge that during World War II the Japanese military had forced Chinese and Korean women into prostitution. Like other evidence of wartime atrocities, this is still denied by many in Japan, which, unlike...