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Even before he began speaking, Clinton was on the phone to Ross Perot, briefing him for 12 minutes on the plan; the Texan withheld a full endorsement but praised the President for an "excellent speech." Clinton then took off on what amounted to a campaign swing through Missouri, Ohio and upstate New York; this week he pushes on to California and Washington. In St. Louis, Missouri, Clinton noted that Republicans were already complaining that "he should have cut ((spending)) more" and challenged them, "Show me where, and be specific -- not hot air." Members of the Cabinet and other top aides...
Experts in legal ethics believe the federal appeals court would have to find that Ryan personally withheld evidence in the Demjanjuk case before the Harvard attorney could be disciplined. And Ryan denied suppressing evidence under oath in a hearing before Wiseman last month in Boston...
Instead, officials at the highest levels of our democracy (including President George Bush) have withheld relevant information from him, the courts have dismissed his most significant convictions because of technicalities, and many Republicans have consistently criticized him for daring to waste $35 million in taxpayer money on his brazen pursuit of justice...
...worst crime, though, was not the scandal itself, but--just as with Watergate--the cover-up that followed. Weinberger had notes indicating that Bush knew much more than he admitted about the arms-for-hostages deal, but the former Defense Secretary withheld these notes from Congress and later from Walsh. His testimony before Congress was therefore perjury, not merely a "policy difference." Weinberger's trial was scheduled to begin last Tuesday, but thanks to Bush that day passed uneventfully...
...pardons is an argument of selfdefense. And he's going to need it, because his crimes are also similar to those of the people he pardoned. It turns out the President kept a journal of sorts starting in November 1986--the month the scandal became public--and withheld the transcripts of that journal from Walsh until last month...