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On 26 Dec 1998 15:45:50 GMT, dgdsk@tiac.net wrote:
>Quite correct. However, there are two levels here. The first level is the
>level of truth. As in, what really happened. And, on that level, what a
>person like Clinton is willing to do to propagate lies. In this case, he
>got on national television, and actually remonstrated the entire
>country--the entire world--for believing that he had not told the truth
>when he said he did not have sex.

Just as Reagan and Bush baldface-lied to the American people about
their knowledge of Iran-Contra, the truth about the invasion of
Grenada (he was NOT asked by a consortium of Caribbean nations to
intercede nor did they even support this action), the relationship
between Noriega and the CIA (a puppet governor gone bad),  secret US
involvement in the constitutionally-illegal overthrow of Nicaragua and
CIA involvement with drug smugglers.  Those are lies of a much higher
caliber and national importance than fibbing about a few office
blowjobs.  Let's have some friggin perspective here!

>The second level is that of perjury. He clearly committed perjury, as
>well.

Clearly according to whom?  You?  The Republican Judiciary Committee's
own assembled jury of conservative trial attornies went over the
evidence and _unanimously_ rejected that there was perjury in either
the Jones or grand jury testimony.  So who is your legal authority for
this?  Rush Limbaugh?

>This man also obstructed justice. He tried to make sure that his secretary
>had the "same story" as he did. 

Oh really?  Did you find evidence that the Judiciary Committee
overlooked?  If you knew what the hell you were talking about then you
would also know that Betty Curry would also be facing an indictment
for such a conspiracy.

The House obstruction charge is a pile of crap.  It only passed a
House vote because Republicans played a legal game that would have had
them thrown out of a courtroom in a normal criminal proceeding.  They
rolled _seven_ very weak charges into one.  Voting for one of those
charges meant a vote for all of them. 

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