TESTIMONY IN CONTRADICTION TO THE PRESIDENT
PERJURY, LIES AND CONTRADICTIONS

Monica Lewisnky
Paula Jones
Kathleen Willey
Christy Zercher
Gennifer Flowers
Dolly Kyle Browning
Elizabeth Ward Gracen
Sally Perdue
Pamela Blackard
Debra Ballentine
Larry Patterson
L.D. Brown
Roger Perry
Danny Ferguson (cuts both ways)
David Hale
Jim McDougal
Vernon Jordan
Bettie Currie

Capitol Hill Blue 7/20/98 Doug Thompson "Secret Service agents confirm key parts of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky's story about being alone with President Clinton on specific dates and phone calls that Clinton made to her, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. "Agents can, and will, confirm to the grand jury that the President was alone with Miss Lewinsky in the Oval Office on more than one occasion" including a key December 28, 1997, meeting after Lewinsky was subpoenaed in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, a source close to the subpoenaed Secret Service agents confirmed Sunday. At least two agents will testify that Clinton and Lewinsky were observed embracing and one may say the President and young woman were engated in "mutual fondling," although no agent is known to have observed the pair in a sex act. The testimony expected this week will also confirm that the President made phone calls to Lewinsky while he was out of the country on official business. "Basically, the testimony of certain agents will be in direct conflict with previous sworn statements of the President," the source said..

NY Times Don Van Natta Jr and John Broder 7/29/98 ".One of the lawyers said Tuesday that Ms. Lewinsky had indicated to prosecutors that the president discussed with her how to characterize their relationship in December, when they were both under subpoena in the Jones case. The admissions were crucial to reaching the broad immunity deal with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr announced Tuesday. Ms. Lewinsky pledged her "full and truthful testimony" in exchange for freedom from the threat of prosecution. Ms. Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, received a similar grant of immunity Tuesday. Under the immunity arrangement, Ms. Lewinsky is prepared to testify that the president told her that he planned to deny a relationship and if they both denied it, no one would know the truth, the lawyers said. Ms. Lewinsky is also prepared to say that the president encouraged her to say that her many visits to the White House after she lost her job there in 1996 were to see Betty Currie, Clinton's private secretary, and not the president himself, the lawyers said. Ms. Lewinsky's proposed testimony contradicts Clinton's assertions in public and under oath about their relationship.."

New York Daily News Online Thomas DeFrank William Goldschlag and Kathy Kiely 8/20/98 "An angry Monica Lewinsky is primed to tell Kenneth Starr's grand jury today that President Clinton was an active sexual partner during their 18-month affair, sources told the Daily News yesterday. "This was a two- way street. This is not a situation of him being solely on the receiving end," one source said. Lewinsky's testimony will make it clear that Clinton was a willing participant, the source said. The 25-year-old ex-White House intern was described by knowledgeable sources as angry, hurt and disillusioned that Clinton - who recently gave prosecutors a DNA sample - has implied he never reciprocated her sexual moves.Another well-placed source said Lewinsky's 37 visits to the White House after being transferred to the Pentagon, and more than 70 phone calls from him, demonstrate that the relationship was far from passive on Clinton's part."If this was all her doing," the source said, "why is he constantly calling and leaving messages on her answering machine?"."

New York Times Web-site 12/8/98 AP Opening a final, impassioned defense against impeachment, President Clinton's legal team told the House Judiciary Committee today that Clinton's conduct was ``misleading, even maddening'' but did not warrant removing him from office..He also questioned the truthfulness of Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose account of an affair and cover-up put the Clinton presidency in jeopardy. ``We think in some areas she provided erroneous testimony that is in disagreement with the president's testimony,'' Craig said under questioning. But Craig said he did not believe Oval Office secretary Betty Currie or presidential friend Vernon Jordan, who also gave testimony that conflicted with Clinton's, lied.."

Richmond Times-Dispatch 2/28/99 Editorial "...- He contrived to get himself alone in a hotel room with Juanita Broaddrick, just as he did with Paula Jones and sought to with Kathleen Willey. He later tried to apologize to Mrs. Broaddrick, as he tried to do with Dolly Browning (at a large gathering) for their years-long affair. He instilled fear in Mrs. Broaddrick, as he did in Mrs. Willey and Paula Jones and Elizabeth Gracen (the former Miss America he apparently jumped in the back seat of a car). As Monica Lewinsky did, Juanita Broaddrick filed a false affidavit in the Paula Jones case, later recanted with Kenneth Starr. And now Clinton terms Mrs. Broaddrick's assault story "absolutely false" - as he denied (or initially did) all the allegations of sex with all the others, including of course Gennifer Flowers.... Why the polls among women heavily in his favor? Why the votes of eight of the Senate's nine women for his acquittal? Why the omerta (the organized code of silence) among the deconstructed feminists regarding Clinton - why their giving to Just Plain Bill every benefit of every doubt while for instance deploring, as Betty Friedan did, Republican Speaker-elect Robert Livingston for being "extremely insulting to the American women's movement"?..."

The president's videotaped statement to donors that he was raising soft money (illegally) to pay for reelection ads v his previous denials.

Publicly pledging cooperation v strategy of stonewalling Jones and Starr and House/Senate

Fictitious claim by president that he could not comment on the Lewinsky matter because he was legally required to keep silent.

Clinton in January 98: "You and the American people have a right to get answers. I'd like for you to have more rather than less, sooner rather than later. So we'll work through it as quickly as we can and get all those questions out there to you" v February 98, "I've told the American people what is essential for them to know about this."

Clinton's has changed from 'never having met Jones' to admitting that they may have been in the same room alone.

Feb. 22 denial that White House "or any of President Clinton's private attorneys has hired or authorized any private investigator to look into the background of . . . investigators, prosecutors or reporters" v next day Terry Lenzner said that his firm, Investigative Group Inc., had been retained by the law firm representing Mr. Clinton in Mr. Starr's investigation.

Clinton's statement he had "no specific recollection" of his meeting with Ms. Willey, v a later statement that he "has a very clear memory" of the meeting.

Clinton denials in 1992 60 Minutes interview regarding Gennifer Flowers v (6 six years later) answering yes under oath.

Clinton's 1994 statement on executive privilege, "It's hard for me to imagine a circumstance in which that would be an appropriate thing for me to do" and counsel (Cutler's) statement that (1994) it is practice "not to assert executive privilege" in circumstances involving communications relating to investigations of personal wrongdoing by government officials v executive privilege claims.

Clinton's promise of "the most ethical administration in history" v this list.

Clinton statement that "What always happens if you have automatic sanctions legislation is it puts enormous pressure on whoever is in the executive branch to fudge an evaluation of the facts of what is going on."

"..no dictator will pressure . into concessions" v. telecommunications free commerce with Cuba

Haitian actions/Lavallas v President Carter negotiation in process (at his request)

Clinton statement that they want Executive Privilege legal material made public v. Motion for Contempt when a portion becomes public.

Administration figure given for FBI files (approx 39) was much lower than they knew it to be at the time

Democrats outrage over release of legally recorded Hubbell prison tapes v. silence over release of illegally recorded cell-phone conversations of Republicans.

Clinton asserts that he is cooperating with Starr v. Clinton has declined request to waive Secret Service privilege, to urge Susan McDougal to testify, to provide his own testimony to the Grand Jury

Clinton "I do not believe we should extend most-favored-nation status to China unless they make significant progress in human rights, arms proliferation and fair trade." in 3/92 vs. current position.

In 1997 , Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said , " If these allegations are true , they would be very serious . " They (Chinese illegal contributions to DNC & Clinton/Gore) are true , but are not taken seriously, e.g. China trip still "on."

Clinton 1992 campaign, "The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology" vs current policy to China.

January 12, 1998 letter by President Clinton to Congress: " I am writing to you with respect to sections (b)(1) and (b)(2) of Public Law 99-183, relating to the approval and implementation of the Agreement for Nuclear Cooperation Between the United States and the People's Republic of China, and with respect to section 902(a)(6)(B) of Public Law 101-246. . In accordance with Public Law 101-246, I have certified that China has provided clear and unequivocal assurances to the United States that it is not assisting and will not assist any nonnuclear-weapon state, either directly or indirectly, in acquiring nuclear explosive devices or the material and components for such devices . I believe the Agreement will have a significant, positive impact in promoting U.S. nonproliferation and national security interests with China...I am pleased that the process is underway to begin nuclear cooperation with China .." - vs the Timeline.

Attorney-client privilege claim Lindsey-Clinton (use of government resources) vs. William Sessions, Billy Dale, etc.

Treatment of China - which murdered hundreds of pro-democracy students in 1989 v. treatment of India

On the very day the Supreme Court denied an expedited hearing as the White House requested, McCurry said "Today is day 1,400 of Ken Starr's tenure as independent counsel, at $35,000 a day of taxpayers' money ... if there's any delay, that's the delay right there."

Clinton "This is an important example of how our engagement with China serves America's interests: stability in Asia, preventing the spread of weapons..." v this list.

Decisions by Atty General Janet Reno ".calls into question the administration's previous opposition to assisted suicide. President Clinton raised no objections to opposing assisted suicide in April 1997 when he signed the Ashcroft-Dorgan legislation to bar the use of federal funds for services rendered by the likes of Dr. Jack Kevorkian."

Although the Clintons claimed to have lost money in their commodity trading in 1980, on April 11, 1994, they revealed they failed to report $6,498 in income from the trading and paid $14,615 in back taxes and interest.

In 1993, its "first major Supreme Court case, the Clinton administration is preparing to defend a Haitian refugee policy [of returning the refugees to Haiti] that the president had called illegal during the campaign." (USA Today)

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter v. Clinton claim that he is "the only president who knew something about agriculture when [he] got there."

Clinton refused to sign legislation to pay the legal fees accrued by Billy Dale and the other fired Travel Office employees. The next day, the White House asked Congress to pay the legal fees of Clinton aides in return for Clinton's signature.

Clinton's claims about China's progress in human rights vs. Gao's testimony which ``included depravity of the People's Republic of China program that not even the harshest critics of the program ever suspected. Women are rounded up, held in `population jail cells' and forced and coerced to submit to the killing of their children.''

About the Chinese reception in Tiananmen Square, Clinton said the Chinese "should be designing the terms of the arrival ceremony, not me" but in October 1997 the Chinese government didn't let the US design the terms of Jiang's state dinner, rejecting a relatively informal dinner on South Lawn and insisting on a formal state dinner in the East Room.

Steven Brill's article accusing Starr of talking to the press v. comments by Lawrence Walsh in February of 1998: "To me the press was very important.What they did was supply to the press whatever we could give them that was on the record and public to save the press from going back to try to figure it all out -- find it all out for themselves. As our investigation stretched out, it became important to do that because the reporters would go off on to other assignments and come back so we tried to facilitate their work that way the best we could. I also talked to them. 20 odd or so met two or three times a year with them in rotation so they could ask about the general background. "

In September of 1996, Clinton promised to help the Secret Service uniformed division win collective bargaining rights v. June of 1998 when he announced that he has decided not to support efforts by the Secret Service's uniformed division to unionize.

In 1992, when candidate Clinton found out that his passport files had been rooted through by Bush appointees in the State Department - "If I catch anybody doing it," he said, "I will fire them the next day. You won't have to have an inquiry or rigmarole or anything else" v not firing Bacon or Bernath over the release of Linda Tripp information.

State Department spokesman James Rubin insisted that "no controlled information" regarding missile technology "has been authorized to be made available to Chinese authorities" v the February 1998 waiver which was issued despite the State Department warnings to the National Security Council that Loral's actions were "criminal, likely to be indicted, knowing and unlawful."

State Department spokesman James Rubin said that "the whole underlying suggestion that somehow we want to transfer technology to the Chinese . is simply fatuous." V the late 1994 agreement between the Clinton Adminstration and Red China's Commission on Science Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) for the specific purpose of facilitating technology transfers to Red China.

Clinton's remark to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in 1992: "We will link China's trading privileges to its human rights record and its conduct of trade of weapons sales" v this List.

Clinton and Gore in 1992 book Putting People First: "We should not reward China with improved trade status when it has continued to trade goods made by prison labor and has failed to make significant progress on human rights since the Tiananmen massacre" v Administration's position on MFN for China

Nausbaum and Altman denied exchanging Whitwater information v. fax documents.

Clinton is "encouraged" by Iraq's cooperation with UN inspectors but Richard Butler says there has been "virtually no progress" in six months and Bill Richardson, says "there's been zero progress."

Regarding Satellite Exports, Clinton claims to be continuing the China policy of Bush v 4/30/91 statement from Fitzwater for Bush, citing nuclear proliferation concerns: "The President has decided not to approve a request to license the export of U.S. satellite components to China for a Chinese domestic communications satellite, the Dong Fang Hong 3 (DFH-3). "

Clinton overrides of State Department vs. Warren Christopher in confirmation hearing: "we cannot ignore continuing reports of Chinese exports of sensitive military technology to troubled areas...." and " . I have long thought the State Department needs an `America Desk.' This Administration will have one--- and I'll be sitting behind it. v Christopher's resignation which occurred after Hot Section Technology was moved from State to Commerce

The President has said the Chinese should determine the details of his trip there in June of 1998 v in Chile, where the President insisted on a motorcade over a helicopter thereby creating additional problems for his hosts (closing shops and schools, etc.)

Attorney General Janet Reno is considering investigating Judge Starr within days of the Brill article v John Huang has evidently not even been interviewed on the campaign finance investigation - though his involvement was known since late 1996 and Judicial Watch has made progress.

Regarding Algeria, May 2 1998 - State Department warned against travel and warned those who would travel to "take the same precautions that U.S. Embassy personnel and U.S. oil companies...take, including...using armed guards at the airports and carrying weapons for protection" v administration policies towards carrying weapons for protection in the U.S.

In 1980, before Ronald Reagan was elected, 60.3% of graduating seniors had used marijuana. In twelve years of the Reagan-Bush administration in January 1993 only 32.6% of the graduating seniors had used marijuana - a decrease of 27.7 percentage points. In 1996, at the end of Clinton's first term in office, the percentage jumped from 32.6% to 44.9%. If a similar penalty were applied to this as was proposed with tobacco, the estimated penalty would be $250.6 million against the DEA for 96/97.

Clinton said "We did pass the Brady Bill and 100,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers lost their handguns" v a 1996 Justice Department report asserts the Brady act barred 60,000 from buying guns. And Clinton later changes the statement to "hundreds of thousands of."

Clinton said "We did pass the Brady Bill and 100,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers lost their handguns" v GAO finding that almost half of all the rejections were due to paperwork or traffic violations, not criminal records

Testimony to the National Security and International Relations committee: "If the encryption board was reversed-engineered, the knowledge gained could be used to strengthen adversaries' knowledge" of the devices the United States uses to safeguard its communications systems v after the New York Times article on the missing device : "If the encryption board was reverse-engineered at the chip level (a difficult process), one could determine the state of our research and development sophistication 20 years ago, and the knowledge gained could be used to strengthen one's knowledge of communications security principles."

Testimony of Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. to House Committee on International Relations 6/24/98: "Mr. Clinton credits his policy of engaging China with ending Beijing's aggressive proliferation practices. Spherically, he declared recently that: "In the last decade (the PR.C) has joined the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological Weapons Convention, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, each with clear rules, reporting requirements and inspection systems." The trouble is that, despite these obligations and a new, much ballyhooed domestic export control regime, China remains, according to the CIA and the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services, "the principal supplier of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology to the world." "

In October of 92, Clinton said "But there is no more striking example of President Bush's indifference towards democracy than his policy toward China.Instead of allying himself with the democratic movement in China, George Bush sent secret emissaries to raise a toast with those who crushed it." and Gore said: Bush "has permitted five additional American built satellites to be launched by the Chinese.Bush is an incurable patsy for those dictators." v this list.

White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 6/24/98 Statement by the President Veto of HR 2709 the "Iran Missile Proliferation Act of 1998": "I have committed my Administration to an unceasing effort to halt the transfer of missile technology to nations that conduct or condone terrorism and otherwise violate international norms" v this list.

Lucianne Goldberg said Mr. Behre was fired after he sought to give the tapes to Mr. Clinton's personal attorney, Robert S. Bennett and that Mr. Behre returned the tapes but only after his office had transcribed them. Mr. Behre said last year that Mrs. Tripp was "outraged" when former White House volunteer Kathleen E. Willey first came forward to accuse Mr. Clinton of a sexual advance in the Oval Office and that Mrs. Willey had wrongly "injected" his client's name into stories concerning the Jones suit by saying Mrs. Tripp could corroborate the encounter and that Mrs. Tripp "never witnessed any inappropriate behavior by the president" and said his client had "no information even remotely relating to Paula Jones or her allegations."

6/27/98 Michael Kelly National Journal concerning the missing supersecret board ".In a remarkable response, the White House issued a statement ''clarifying'' the National Security Agency's assessment, essentially changing it from a warning that national security may have been harmed to an assurance that it had not been harmed. ."

Washington Times, 7/1/98 Warrent Strobel ".Officials of the Taipei government had expressed satisfaction earlier this year with U.S. assurances that Mr. Clinton would not harm their national interests in conversations in mainland China, but were concerned that the assurances had not been made in public. Mr. Hu (Jason Hu, the foreign minister of the Republic of China in Taiwan) recalled that the United States, in its 1994 Taiwan policy review, pledged that it would work to "make Taiwan's voice be heard" in all international organizations to which it is not a member. "How does that square with shutting the door on membership?" he asked rhetorically.."

In 1996, labor spent some $35 million on advertising that targeted House Republicans in an effort to help Democrats regain control of the U.S. House. But now The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has asked the Federal Election Commission to stop the tobacco industry from running issue ads.

White House Counsel Charles F. C. Ruff said: "There is not in my office, there never has been and there never will be, any defiance, stonewalling, obstruction or any other inappropriate conduct" v this list.

The administration spokesmen complain that the Starr investigation has cost $40 million over 4 years with little result v. the Clinton Trip to China cost $45 million over a few weeks with little result.

On March 13, 1998 - within a few hours - the Pentagon released information on Linda Tripp in violation of the federal Privacy Act, days later the department announced an internal investigation v. July 9, 1998 - 4 months later - no accountability yet.

7/10/98 Washington Peter Baker "If the world does not move to curb greenhouse gases, the United States will have to deal with more natural disasters like the raging wildfires that consumed so much of Florida in recent weeks, President Clinton said today..While acknowledging that "no one entirely understands what is bringing about this extreme weather," he suggested again that he believes changes in the global climate are partly responsible ."

7/13/98 Silicon Valley Logic ".A November 1996 report by the Department of Justice calls for a "need for stronger sanctions" to curb what it considers an epidemic of perjury and obstruction of justice in the nation's courts of law: "In a number of jurisdictions, statutes against witness tampering, suborning perjury (encouraging perjury by threats or inducements), or obstruction of justice do not carry high enough penalties to either deter or substantially punish witness intimidation... defendants are reported to feel they have little to lose -- and a great deal to gain (from perjury and obstruction)."."

Clinton's claims about his fighting for civil rights v. Arkansas Democrat Gazette 10/8/97 Paul Greenberg ".The driving passion of his life? The closest Bill Clinton came to pushing for a civil rights law was to appoint a study commission, which was his way of avoiding almost any tough issue. What he did for civil rights was to substitute patronage for a policy, appointing black folks to office rather than protecting the rights of all by the kind of legislation that would have offended powerful interests.."

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In 1996 campaign, Republican rival Robert Dole has said the files episode smacks of a Nixonian "enemies list," but Clinton said he "would never condone or tolerate any kind of enemies list or anything of that kind" v database, filegate and Carville project

The New York Times 7/16/98 "Louis Freeh is a lawyer and former Federal judge who has spent his life interpreting and enforcing the law. As Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he leads the agents investigating White House fund-raising during 1996 and the possibility that the Chinese Government funneled money to the Democrats in an effort to influence the election and American policy. Now we have learned in an important public forum, the Senate Judiciary Committee, that Mr. Freeh told Ms. Reno last December that she was flatly misreading the Independent Counsel Act when she refused to acknowledge her conflict of interest and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the fund-raising of her boss, President Clinton.."

Four days before details emerge on Al Gore's participation in the illegal fund-raiser at the Hsi Lai Buddhist monastery, Gore claims, "Number one, we have strictly abided by all of the campaign finance laws, strictly. There've been no violations."

Federalist Digest 7/17/98 ".CLINTON ''I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'' --Presidential oath of office.In May of 1998, Mr. Clinton issued Executive Order 13083, ''Federalism,''."

World Net Daily 7/21/98 Charles Smith "The Clinton administration claims they have nothing to hide. Yet, the White House is resisting the release of documents hidden inside the files of the late Ron Brown. The documents are being sought by the House National Security Committee. The documents involve a 1996 presidential waiver written by Clinton for the troubled Loral Aerospace Corporation. Congressional officials are concerned because the 1996 Clinton waiver for Loral included the transfer of an advanced satellite encryption telemetry ground station to China. "Dozens of documents the House National Security Committee was promised have not been delivered," said Congressman Gibbons of Nevada in a recent interview for Congressional Daily. "That is typical of someone who has something to hide."

World Net Daily 7/21/98 Charles Smith ".President Clinton and Mr. Reinsch both claim executive orders transferring oversight for space exports from State to Commerce were not issued until 1996. Yet, Reinsch's 1995 waiver memos clearly shows that the Brown's Commerce Department had a much larger role than previously admitted."

New York Times 7/23/98 Bill Safire "Remember "Filegate"? Three years ago we learned that the White House had been regularly pulling the files from the F.B.I. on hundreds of Republicans -- ostensibly for security clearance, but including hundreds of former Reagan and Bush appointees never being considered for jobs. Even Clinton partisans shuddered at shades of an "enemies list." White House spokesmen dismissed it as a "bureaucratic snafu," caused by a Secret Service that couldn't keep its lists straight. ..Starr has never come to closure. Years passed; Livingstone, seeking no immunity, testified to Congress that everybody and therefore nobody was to blame. Starr's investigation languished. ..Fortunately for the public interest in privacy, an organization called Judicial Watch launched a class-action suit in behalf of people whose files had been unlawfully examined. This week it provided The Washington Times with an expanded list of names of those whose most intimate affairs were examined by this political operative and his bosses. The list, still growing, is up to 900 names; some, like Linda Tripp, were holdovers, but at least 400 were not -- from James Brady to James Baker, John Whitehead to James Carville.Here is this series invader of privacy blithely envisioning the transmission of F.B.I. files loaded with hearsay smears being fed to the President himself, for reading amusement on his computer screen. We know that Whodb, pronounced "who-to-be," the White House Office Data Base, has on it tens of thousands of potential contributors and people who owe the Clintons favors, accessible by name, affiliation, race and religion. We do not yet know what else is in these unprecedented political dossiers. ..The Senate counter-investigated that harassment; the agents were exonerated and their legal bills paid. Now, ironically, the White House is posing as the big friend of a Secret Service reluctant to testify -- while clinging to the canard that an inefficient Secret Service was the cause of hundreds of invasions of privacy. .."

USA Journal Online 7/24/98 ".Specter said Thursday that the attorney general has ignored her own pledge to rely on the opinions of outside professionals to make her decision whether or not to launch this probe. "Now we have both Louis Freeh and Charles LaBella coming down on the side of appointing an independent counsel," Mr. Specter said, adding that Miss Reno "has a mandatory duty on covered persons and she has abused her discretion on conflict to others."."

Washington Post Susan Schmidt and Peter Baker ".If Clinton were to provide testimony, it would represent another turnabout on the issue by the president. Early in the Lewinsky probe, Clinton said he believed people may have legitimate questions about his relationship with Lewinsky, and that he was anxious to provide answers, ``more rather than less, sooner rather than later.'' But over the past few months Clinton has resisted testifying, and advisers have privately said they see no reason for him to answer Starr's questions. ."

7/25/98 Brian McGrory Boston Globe ".White House officials increasingly regard a subpoena from Starr as an inevitability, and launched this latest round of discussions in an attempt to cut the best deal they could, according to aides and analysts. ''It's an effort to look purer than the other guy, Starr,'' said Paul Rothstein, a professor at Georgetown Law Center. ''They are trying to look like they are being open and making offers.'' ."

Clinton - memories of church burnings from childhood

8/2/98 Electronic Telegraph James Langton "PRESIDENT Clinton is considering an emotional television apology to the American people - possibly within days - which would include confessing to a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. A number of senior aides are understood to be urging a presidential admission of infidelity. While the tactic is high risk, they believe that it would bring to an end the scandal that has plagued the White House for most of this year. More importantly, the White House would hope to kill Kenneth Starr's investigation into more serious and possibly criminal aspects of the affair by making it politically almost impossible for him to continue. ."

8/2/98 The New York Times AP " A majority of Americans apparently have no appetite for impeachment, even if President Clinton committed perjury. The latest Newsweek poll shows only 39 percent think impeachment would be appropriate if the president lied under oath about a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Another 35 percent say it would be enough if Clinton apologized and 19 percent say no action should be taken.59 percent say they do not believe the president's denials.."

8/4/98 James Bennet and Don Van Natta Jr. "Taking a defiant stance toward prosecutors and political critics, White House officials said today that President Clinton would continue to maintain that he had had no sexual relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky and would appeal a court decision ordering a top aide to testify in the case."

8/7/98 Washington Post Op-Ed Senator Fred Thompson ".Most recently, the White House tried to lay the groundwork for another wide-ranging federal power grab. The president has said the era of big government is over, but White House actions tell a different story. .On May 1 President Clinton quietly signed Executive Order 13803 with the stated purpose of promoting federalism. Ironically, while this order directs federal agencies to consult more with state and local officials, it was written in secret -- without any consultation at all. State and local officials, upset with the order and the White House snub in drafting it, want it revoked.The new Clinton order also revokes his own 1993 order that directed federal agencies not to impose unfunded mandates on the states. The White House claimed the new order did not signal a policy change. But those most affected could not disagree more.."

8/10/98 AP Ron Fournier "A week before Bill Clinton's risky date to answer questions from prosecutor Kenneth Starr, some of the president's closest advisers are convinced he should try to avoid telling all. The president last month agreed to testify ``completely and truthfully'' on Aug. 17 to a grand jury investigating whether he had sex with Monica Lewinsky and tried to cover it up ..

Washington Times 8/11/98 Tod Lindberg "Probably there was a time in American politics when the question of whether or not the president should tell the truth to a grand jury was unthinkable: Of course he should. That was then. In Bill Clinton's America, truth-telling has become a question of tactics.."

8/12/98 Fox News Jonah Goldberg - Freeper report "During some give and take between Jonah, Ann Coulter, an unknown Democratic spinmeister, and the hosts (Hannity & Colmes), Jonah made a very significant point about a "training video" used in the Government that addresses the impropriety of sex in the Government work place. The significance was that (per Jonah) the President did the 'lead in' on the tape and had some words to the effect; "no one in the Federal Government should be excused from an abuse of power even in 'consensual sex'"

NY Times 8/16/98 Editorial "Unlike any of his modern predecessors, Bill Clinton seems to believe that he lives beyond the reach of public disappointment. Otherwise, how could he talk about picking an architect and having Hollywood raise $100 million for his Presidential library while at the same time allowing his aides to release the oddest trial balloon ever to float from the West Wing? We are now advised that the President of the United States may argue for continuance in office by telling a grand jury that he received oral sex, but that, in his view, the act did not constituent sexual relations since he did not touch any of the female body parts specified by a Federal judge."

Reuters 8/18/98 Kieran Murray "Attorneys for Paula Jones said President Bill Clinton's confession on Monday that he had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky proved he lied under oath in the sexual harassment lawsuit their client brought against him.. ``While my answers were legally accurate, I did not volunteer information,'' Clinton said, just hours after he testified to a grand jury on the matter. Pyke disputed Clinton's claim. ``He told us (in January) that he did not have a sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, that they did not have a sexual relationship. He said he had no sort of relationship with her, that he hardly knew her,'' Pyke said. ``The claim that he gave legally accurate testimony is not truthful.'' ."

Drudge 8/19/98 ".During his grand jury testimony on Monday, President Clinton may have slipped further into perjury. The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that the president responded repeatedly with "weak and confusing" answers during his historic testimony -- answers that are bound to haunt him in future months! "His story was all over the place," one well-placed source disclosed late Monday night. "He had major trouble with the time line [of his contacts with Monica Lewinsky]... he stumbled all over the Vernon Jordan questions. And his Betty Currie story was full of inconsistencies." Clinton contradicted documents and tapes, according to the well-placed source, and appeared "lost" during one heated exchange..FOX NEWS CHANNEL ace reporter David Shuster was reporting late Monday night that Clinton was hit with an unexpected line of questioning during his grand jury testimony. It is not known the nature of those questions. Susan Schmidt and Ruth Marcus on 15th Street reported that Clinton's "defiant stance appeared to be a gamble that Starr will be left without enough evidence to bring a criminal case against him or be able to convince Congress to launch impeachment proceedings." ."

Sacramento Bee George Will 8/18/98 "Eaten to a honeycomb by corruption, Bill Clinton's presidency effectively ended with his defiantly eccentric claim that his lying in the judicial process about sex in the White House was all a matter of his private life. And there he goes again, lying about prior lies: "My answers were legally accurate" in the Jones deposition, in which he said he had no memory of being alone with the intern with whom he has a precise memory of doing something "not appropriate." (Perhaps using the salad fork on the entree?)."

Washington Post 8/24/98 Ruth Marcus Susan Schmidt "In January, he said he did not remember being alone with her and never had an affair with her. Last week, he said they had a half-dozen sexual encounters. In January, he did not recall any specific gifts he gave her. Last week, he named three he presented just after Christmas. In January, he was not sure he talked with her about testifying other than making a joke about it. Last week, he said they discussed how to respond to a subpoena."

FoxNews 822/98 Steve Helber AP ".Other details of Clinton's grand jury testimony leaked out Friday, including the disclosure that last Dec. 28, a mere 3 1/2 weeks before the uproar over the relationship began, the president gave the former White House intern up to a half-dozen small gifts. They included an Alaskan stone carving of a bear, a throw rug or blanket, a decorative pin, a box of chocolates, joke sunglasses and a bag from the Black Dog store at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the Clintons have vacationed for three years..But only a few weeks later, on Jan. 17, Clinton said during the Jones deposition only that he "could have given her a gift, but I don't remember a specific gift." He also answered, "I don't recall," when asked whether he ever had been alone in the Oval Office with Lewinsky. He made no reference to their Dec. 28 meeting and said that Lewinsky stopped by the White House before Christmas to see the president's personal secretary, Betty Currie.."

Patrick Buchanan 8/23/98 ".The night before Clinton testified, I wondered aloud on CNN why he was doing it. If, as appeared certain, Clinton had lied in his sworn deposition in the Paula Jones suit, he would be going into the grand jury -- either to admit perjury or to commit perjury. It appears he may have done both.."

Star Net (Arizona Daily Star) 8/23/98 Donald Kaul ".I've been arguing that the president's perjury is of no great moment because the issues involved are so trivial. I've been wrong. It is precisely because the matter is small that the lie is so unsettling. If he, as president of the United States, is willing to lie under oath over so trivial a matter in a worthless lawsuit, how can we ever trust him to tell us the truth any time, about anything? ."

London Times Andrew Sullivan 8/23/98 "When a country strikes against terrorists, there should be no doubt as to the motives for its actions. When the president of the United States addresses the nation to explain a military campaign in retaliation for the murder of American civilians, there should be no smidgen of a doubt as to the integrity of his words or the authenticity of his actions. Commentators last week spoke about America's actions in Sudan and Afghanistan with a wry smile on their faces.. Doesn't every politician lie? To an extent, of course. But this man has taken the principle of cynical duplicity to a new and chilling level. I saw it upfront when I heard him describe the events in Bosnia as another Holocaust and then take a poll to decide whether to stop it. I saw it when he said he would do anything to end the scourge of Aids and then signed a bill that would have thrown every HIV-positive soldier out of the military. Then there were the meta-scams: the welfare reformer who was eventually forced into it by a Republican Congress and then claimed credit himself (of course); the budget-balancer who was forced into fiscal neutrality by the polls and then claimed it was his proudest legacy; the feminist who routinely treats women as if they are fools, tokens or sexual objects. Is it any excuse to say that the final lie that undid him was about something as trivial as consensual extramarital sex? Surely not... My own bet is that we still don't know the half of it. If Clinton's past is any guide, what the Starr report contains about intimidation of witnesses and encouragement of deceit might make our hair stand on end. Yes, it's petty business. Sex is often a petty business. But honesty in a president is not a petty principle. Without it no system of democratic government can withstand the cynicism and disengagement that will overwhelm it. Clinton has already done a fathomless amount to define down America's collective notions of candour, decency and accountability. If he is shown beyond a doubt to have lied and then is allowed to get away with it, Americans will have gained two years of phoney stability but have lost their constitutional and cultural soul. They will have allowed the chief enforcer of the laws to treat those laws with contempt. They will have tolerated a role model for their children whose definition of morality is whatever he can get away with.."

From Freeper debo21 (Jerusalem Post 8/21/98) "In '92, when a campaigning Bill Clinton still served as governor of Arkansas, he was asked to commute the death sentence of a brain damaged man back home in Arkansas. He refused. While there were strong arguments to be made for carrying out the full penalty of the law in that case (some strong arguments against, too), everyone knew full well that the ONLY reason Clinton allowed the execution to go forward was to protect himself in the polls, so that no-one could charge him with being "soft" on capital punishment. During the same campaign, he attacked George Bush for his refusal to take in Haitian boat people. When Clinton was elected, hundreds of Haitians, believing he had given them a warm go-ahead, took to the dangerous seas in overloaded boats which were soon swamped: the trusting Haitians were drowned or torn apart by sharks, and Clinton later made it clear that in fact he would continue a policy strikingly like Bush's. This is the long way around of saying that whatever the policy realities may be, positive or negative, Clinton does things for one reason only: to help Clinton in the polls. If coincidentally he does the right thing, it's still just a coincidence. And in any case, as the crazy lefties outside the WH were chanting yesterday, "When Clinton lies, People die!" . . "

American Spectator 9/2/98 "Our Prince Bill has ripped out a page from Machiavelli and thrown away the rest of the treatise, saving his biggest lie for his biggest day. Going into speech night he knew, unlike 99.999 percent of his viewers and listeners, that a few days later he'd be launching slick willies at cruising speed against terrorist targets he'd only just discovered. His staged departure with enabling Chelsea and humiliated (and don't forget "shocked") Hillary for a Canosa vacation was another lie--a lie on top of the underlying lie--as he knew he'd be coming right back. It was a brilliant piece of subterfuge, intended alas not for all enemies foreign but for all enemies domestic--in particular Kenneth Starr, who in one brief afternoon saw Clinton spend more on 75 cruise missiles than he has in four fabled years investigating Clinton himself. Bill bought himself some time, and overnight the press started parroting the line that we were now faced with an open-ended war against terrorism that'll cross not only the bridge to the twenty-first century but likely the one to the twenty-second century as well.."

New York Post 9/1/98 Dick Morris ".The president we saw in his televised speech was not attractive, not a statesman and not sorry. The churlish, short-tempered, uptight and angry face; the tight shoulders; the cold, dry stare: It was an unpleasant sight usually reserved for Clinton's intimates, behind closed doors. Now, as Peggy Noonan pointed out, Americans have met the real Clinton. The affable, avuncular, cheerful, emotive man we usually see was not to be found. Clinton was flat, empty and raw.. Clinton blew a second opportunity to apologize with real humanity and contrition at the Martha's Vineyard ceremony. Instead, he mocked the severity of his intentional deception by joking about how experienced he had become at asking for forgiveness. Apparently, the more you create situations that require forgiveness, the more you deserve it. The president arrogantly mused about offering his forgiveness to all who have wronged him as he led the country on a wild goose chase through his deliberate perfidy. Once more, he avoided any words of contrition or even understanding of what he has done to so many people. Bill Clinton still doesn't get it. If he did, he could not have even considered any comparison - however oblique - between himself and his plight and that of Nelson Mandela, as he did in the Martha's Vineyard speech. Could even Bill Clinton seriously believe that there is any similarity between a man who was tortured and imprisoned for decades because he sought racial equality for himself and his fellow men and a man who was caught in a sexual liaison with an intern slightly older than his daughter and who boldly lied about it to the American public until he was cornered by physical evidence and a grand jury? ."

Wall Street Journal 9/2/98 Clifford Alexander "When he's in trouble, and even when he's not, Bill Clinton is known to play fast and furious with issues of race. He did it again last Friday in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., in a speech commemorating the 35th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington. Mr. Clinton said the following: "Most of us who are old enough remember exactly where we were on Aug. 28, 1963. I was in my living room in Hot Springs, Ark. I remember the chair I was sitting in; I remember exactly where it was in the room; I remember exactly the position of the chair when I sat and watched on national television the great March on Washington unfold. I remember weeping uncontrollably during Martin Luther King's speech, and I remember thinking when it was over, my country would never be the same and neither would I." So spoke the man who in January could not remember whether he had been alone with Monica Lewinsky a few weeks earlier. And it wasn't the first time Mr. Clinton had suspiciously vivid memories on matters concerning race in America. On an earlier occasion he gravely told the nation of his vivid memory of church burnings in Arkansas when he was growing up. Journalists' inquiries revealed that there were no church burnings in Arkansas during Mr. Clinton's early years.. In his Martha's Vineyard speech he even compared himself to Nelson Mandela and Dr. King.."

AP Ron Fournier 9/2/98 "Throughout his quarter century in politics, Bill Clinton has always talked himself out of trouble. Now his skill with words may be his curse. Put on the defensive at a news conference in Russia, Clinton reverted to his habit of mining verbal loopholes and changing his version of events in the ever-evolving Monica Lewinsky matter.."

The Landmark Legal Foundation 9/2/98 Mark Levin Case No. LR-C-94-290 ". Landmark Legal Foundation respectfully requests that the Court invoke its inherent supervisory powers and its supervisory powers provided by Rule 26(b)(2)(D) and Rule 37, Fed.R.Civ.P., to sua sponte hold a hearing to determine whether the President should be held in contempt of court pursuant to 18 U . S . C . Section 401..The President further appears to have misled the court by allowing his counsel to rely on the Lewinsky affidavit, which the President knew to be false. Despite ample opportunity to do so, the President apparently did not draw the Lewinsky affidavit's untruthfulness to the Court, or apparently to his counsel. The record reflects that the President's attorney represented that Mr. Clinton was "fully aware of [the content of] Ms. Jane Doe 6's affidavit" and that the President was questioned extensively about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky by Plaintiff's counsel. Moreover, during Plaintiff's inquiry regarding the President's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky, the parties paused for a lunch break (see Document 1, pp. 51- 53) giving the President additional opportunity to alert his attorney to the affidavit's untruthfulness. Still the President did not alert the Court to the falsity of the affidavit. Moreover, immediately following the lunch break, in the Court's and the President's presence, the President's attorney cited the Lewinsky affidavit's declaration that "there is absolutely no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form, with President Clinton. . .." (Document 1, p. 54.) The record reflects the President's silence. Finally, in response to his own attorney's inquiry during cross-examination, the President directly asserted the Lewinsky affidavit was truthful. (Document 1, p. 204.)."

Weekly Standard William Kristol 8/31/98 "."AT NO TIME DID I ASK ANYONE TO LIE," said Bill Clinton, lying, in his August 17 address to the nation. For seven months, the president asked his staffers and supporters to lie. He assured them -- some of them personally -- that he had told the truth when he denied a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Ann Lewis and Paul Begala; Madeleine Albright and Donna Shalala; Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt: All of them were lied to by the president. And all of them, in turn, were sent out to lie to the rest of us on his behalf. .The president engages in sordid activity in the White House -- in the Oval Office -- with a 21-year-old intern. He lies about it. He attempts to cover it up. Now he admits (albeit grudgingly and partially) to the truth. Yet none of his staff, no member of his administration, and almost no Democratic official seems to want to hold the president truly accountable for his actions -- by demanding that he resign. And, in the absence of Clinton's willingness to go, not a single person who works for him seems to have the honor to leave himself."

Augusta Chronicle 9/3/98 "Recall how U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich's legions of foes -- in Congress and the Big Media -- demanded that the Georgia Republican pay out of pocket the months-long $300,000 costs of the ethics investigation that found him guilty of a few technical violations of House rules. The hyenas that howled for Gingrich to pay the fine out of his personal finances are also, for the most part, the same pro-Clinton crowd who endlessly complain about the multi-million dollar cost of Special Counsel Kenneth Starr's probe into White House scandals..Clinton should not only pay for the last seven months of the Starr probe, but also refund to taxpayers the additional millions his White House lackeys spent lying on his behalf. Americans shouldn't have to pay government hirelings to lie to them."

Michael Kelly 9/2/98 ". Confronted with the reality of North Korea's nuclear program, the Clinton administration delivers the appearance of peace in our time. In exchange for our generous financial assistance, North Korea, it is declared, has agreed to abandon its naughty nuclear dreams. Four years later, the news is that North Korea seems to be building a massive underground nuclear weapons production plant. Confronted with the reality of Iraq's refusal to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, the administration declares its support for the U.N. Special Commission inspectors in Iraq. Then, on Aug. 26, comes the resignation of William S. Ritter, the longest-serving American weapons inspector in Iraq. The highly respected Ritter says that the administration has supported a secret Security Council decision to abandon serious inspections in "a surrender to Iraqi leadership." On ABC-TV's "This Week," Ritter asserts that the administration has placed "considerable pressure" on inspectors to avoid any inspections that might provoke confrontation, and that administration officials forced the cancellation of two recent inspections. Confronted with the reality of a Russia that is a kleptocracy and that for years has been running increasingly out of the control of a president who is only technically not dead, the administration has chosen to see progress in what is something closer to a free fall toward anarchy.."

Washington Times 9/4/98 Sean Scully "A longtime Democratic ally of President Clinton's said Thursday the president has "undercut the efforts of millions of American parents, who are naturally trying to instill in our children the value of honesty." "It is hard to ignore the impact of the misconduct the president has admitted to on our culture, on our character, and on our children," Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, said in a dramatic 20-minute speech on the Senate floor. Mr. Lieberman's speech was the most direct condemnation yet of the president by a senior Democrat since Aug. 17, when Mr. Clinton admitted misleading the nation about his relationship with a White House intern. "We can safely assume that it will be that much more difficult to convince our sons and daughters of the importance of telling the truth when the most powerful man in the nation evades it," said Mr. Lieberman, who has made a career of speaking out on issues of morality.."

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Frank Aukofer 9/4/98 "Censure is not enough; President Clinton must resign or be impeached, former Education Secretary William Bennett said Thursday.. He said that under the Constitution, the president is the only person who swears that he will take care that the laws not only are obeyed, but also are faithfully executed. "This man had a squalid affair over a long period of time," Bennett said. "He lied about it, he lied to his colleagues, he lied to his aides, he lied to his cabinet, maybe he lied to his wife, maybe he lied to his lawyer. "He then let people go out in his defense and lie on his behalf. He then let other people go out and attack the people who were telling the truth, and call them liars. "He then lies under oath, perjures himself -- we don't know what he did at the grand jury. Then in the middle of this he stands up and says to the American people, 'Now listen to me, I'm going to say it again.' And he lies again. "Then on the 17th of August, he stands up and says what he said was legally accurate." ."

New York 9/5/98 Marilyn Rauber Brian Blomquist "President Clinton, reeling from a public slap from three top Democrats, yesterday finally uttered the words I'm sorry for his fling with Monica Lewinsky. I've already said that I made a bad mistake, it was indefensible, and I'm sorry about it, Clinton said in Dublin, keeping a fixed grin on his face and trying to keep his cool the day after the devastating Senate floor rebukes. He delivered the brief, matter-of-fact apology more than three weeks after he admitted lying to the country about the affair but didn't say sorry - and only after he was quizzed by reporters during a photo op with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. But even as Clinton turned publicly contrite, the White House is planning to play hardball when Sexgate prober Kenneth Starr submits his sex-and-lies report to Congress. They'll concede no wrongdoing and attack Starr's credibility, the Washington Post reported yesterday. The White House might even hire a top gun to lead the charge. Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is one name being touted, the paper said..Congressional leaders believe Starr's report will include a summary of 200 to 300 pages, a comprehensive report of about 1,000 pages, and an enormous appendix containing transcripts of testimony, letters and tapes.."

Universal Press Syndicate 8/25/98 Joseph Sobran "Consider: Bill Clinton played kinky games with a girl in a room next to the Oval Office where dignitaries were waiting for him; independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to find out whether Clinton took criminal measures to conceal this weird behavior. So which of these two gents is "sex-obsessed"? Why, Starr, of course! Clinton is merely trying to shield his "family life.".When the Lewinsky scandal broke, Mrs. Albright led the Cabinet in declaring their belief in Clinton's denials. Now we're supposed to trust their judgment and honesty when they tell us that the retaliatory air strikes were based on solid intelligence that a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory was producing a component of nerve gas. This isn't just a chain of command; it's a chain of faith. We are expected to put our faith in people who put their faith in Clinton. None of them are resigning in protest against his deceits."

In the Prayer breakfast before the White House reaction to the Starr Referral, Clinton said that his defense would not include playing with legal terms to cover up what he had done - v the official White House rebuttal and press conference which relies on legal terms.

Fox News Bulletin Board - "."I haven't eaten at McDonalds since I took office." Later a network ran a video of him leaving a McDonalds in jogging attire. His staff quickly "spun" the story as-- well he said "eaten", and he just gets coffee after his jogs. Then a picture surfaced of a Quarter Pounder with Cheese firmly imbedded in the First Face-- and his staff said the whole thing was "beneath the dignity" of the press (a pretty good joke, that).."

Fox News Hannity and Colmes Freeper report 9/16/98 "The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of older men. It's a sad fact that half of all the underage mothers in this country were made pregnant by a man who was in his 20s or even older -- someone who has no business taking advantage of an underage girl. Statutory rape is still a crime in this country. The young women are victims. Yet these laws are almost never enforced, even in the most egregious of circumstances. It is time for them to be enforced so that older men who prey on underage women and bring children into the world they have no intention of taking responsibility for are held accountable." - President Clinton, 6/13/96

Washington Times 9/16/98 Frank Murray "..Were they ever alone? In the Jones Deposition: "I don't recall...It's possible that she, in, while she was working there, brought something to me and that at the time she brought it to me, she was the only person there. That's possible." To the Grand Jury: "When I was alone with Ms. Lewinsky on certain occasions in early 1996 and once in early 1997, I engaged in conduct that was wrong...It depends on how you define alone...there were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were.".

Washington Times 9/16/98 Frank Murray ".Did He Know She Was Subpoenaed? In the Jones Deposition: Q. "Did she tell you she had been served with a subpoena in the case?" A. "No. I don't know if she had been." To the Grand Jury: Q. "Do you agree that she was upset about being subpoenaed?" A."Oh, yes sir, she was upset. She --- well, she --- we --- she didn't ---we didn't talk about a subpoena. But she was upset. She said, 'I don't want to testify,'...I did not want her to have to testify and go through that. And, of course, I didn't want her to do that, of course not.".

Washington Times 9/16/98 Frank Murray "Did They Have Sexual Relations? In the Jones Deposition: "I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her." To the Grand Jury: "I didn't want this to come out, if I could help it. And I was concerned about that. I was embarrassed about it. I knew it was wrong. ...I hoped that this relationship would never become public.".

Washington Times 9/16/98 Frank Murray ".Did They Exchange Gifts? In the Jones Deposition: "I don't recall. Do you know what they were?...I could have given her a gift, but I don't remember a specific gift." To the Grand Jury: "It was a right thing to do to give her gifts," he said, listing items he'd given in response to her gifts, including on Dec. 28, 1997, after Mrs. Jones' lawyers subpoenaed all gifts..

WorldNetDaily Charles Smith 9/29/98 summarized. Accuses Tobacco executives of lying under oath, conspiracy and obstruction v. no accusations on Clinton's conduct. Claim that the Lewinsky-Tripp calls are private v. Clinton's 1996 anti-terrorist legislation to give a third party unlimited access to al phones. Cisneros charged with lying to FBI and forced to resign in disgrace v. attitude that Clinton should only be censured. Stand on anti-porn, family values and decency issues v. stand on Lewinsky scandal.

Manchester Union Leader 10/2/98 Richard Lessner "When Bill Clinton isn't lying to the country, his friends, family and federal judges about sex in the Oval Office, he is telling whoppers about the budget surplus and Republicans. Mr. Clinton says that he and the Democrats want to use the projected budget surplus -- estimated at $70 billion this year and $1.6 trillion over the next decade -- to "save" Social Security. Republicans, the President alleges, want to "spend" the surplus on tax cuts. Both statements are untrue. Mr. Clinton already has requested, and Congress has appropriated, more than $5 billion of the surplus for the peace-keeping mission in Bosnia, and the White House is touting a wish list of another $14 billion in spending schemes. So it simply is untrue that Mr. Clinton wants to "save" the surplus rather than spend it. Neither do the Republicans propose to spend the surplus, the product of the first balanced federal budget in almost three decades. The Congress has proposed a modest $80 billion tax cut over the next five years, a cut that would return to the taxpayers just 10 cents on the dollar of the surplus. Would returning a mere 10 percent of Washington's windfall to the working families of America jeopardize Social Security? Not at all. The proposed GOP tax cut would not touch Social Security money. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the budget surplus comes solely from increases in corporate and individual income tax payments, not from Social Security payroll taxes. Giving the taxpayers a small tax cut would not take one dime from Social Security, as even Bill Clinton's commissioners admitted in congressional testimony."

WorldNetDaily 10/5/98 Geoff Metcalf "I just finished re-reading Kenneth R. Becht's book "Just the Facts." In it he documents over 200 lies, misrepresentations and blatantly contradictory statements made by Bill Clinton. Many of the quotes which follow you can find in his excellent compendium of presidential prevarications.. Becht does a superb job of making a solid case for impeachment. Frankly, Henry Hyde and the Judiciary committee could flush the entire Monica mess, and embrace Larry Klayman's Judicial watch referral to Congress and Becht's book, and slam dunk an impeachment on a litany of clear specific facts..

AP 10/7/98 Anne Gearan ".Mike Espy's complaint that tough government ethics rules were ``a bunch of junk'' was nothing more than a passing comment, a former Cabinet colleague told Espy's corruption trial. Espy, President Clinton's first agriculture secretary, made the remark on a 1993 plane ride with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and Carol Browner, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ms. Browner testified Tuesday. The four were chatting over drinks when the subject of the Clinton administration's more rigid ethics guidelines came up, she said. ``I recall him saying something like, in passing, in a very social setting ... `it's a bunch of junk. I'm going to do like I did in Congress,''' Ms. Browner said."

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 10/13/98 John Starr "On Thursday, shortly after the House voted to authorize its Judiciary Committee to conduct an impeachment investigation, Bill Clinton sat down before television cameras and told the American people another lie. Our sophomoric president put on his baby face and said, "I've surrendered this. This is out of my control.". Less than 24 hours later, the news media were reporting details of how the White House plans to continue the fight to avoid impeachment. What the White House does is what Clinton orders it to do.."

AP 10/15/98 Pete Yost "Presidential friend Vernon Jordan's staunch denials are crucial to President Clinton's defense against allegations that he tried to encourage Monica Lewinsky's silence. But congressional investigators could use her testimony to chip away at Jordan's credibility. Jordan got Ms. Lewinsky a job offer and a lawyer while she was under subpoena to testify about Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. He has testified he didn't know about the president's sexual relationship with her. Ms. Lewinsky describes a Dec. 22 conversation in which she says she told Jordan about sexy telephone conversations with the president; Jordan doesn't remember anything like that, his lawyer says. Nine days after that conversation, over breakfast at a ritzy hotel, she says Jordan advised her to get rid of drafts of personal notes to Clinton. Jordan says they never ate breakfast together, much less discussed destroying evidence. Jordan ``has never told anyone at any time to destroy any records,'' his lawyer, William Hundley, said Wednesday in an interview. Jordan, an influential Washington attorney and longtime Clinton friend, testified before Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury on March 5 that he had never had breakfast with Ms. Lewinsky. But the House Judiciary Committee has a receipt dated Dec. 31 from the Park-Hyatt Hotel in Washington. Ms. Lewinsky testified she had an egg white omelet and ``I think he had cereal with yogurt.'' The receipt lists ``1 omelet'' and ``1 hot cereal.'' ."

The Weekly Standard 10/19/98 Scrapbook ".Thanks to recently released grand-jury testimony, we know that shortly before Lyons went on Meet the Press, Clinton himself was laying a similar explanation on Blumenthal "Monica Lewinsky came at me and made a sexual demand on me," Blumenthal says the president told him. Blumenthal warned the president to stay away from Lewinsky, but the big- hearted Clinton protested that the cold shoulder is easier said than given. "It's very difficult for me to do that," Clinton explained. "I want to help people.".Subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal disingenuously whipped up a frenzy over endangered civil liberties in America- and most of the press uncritically took his word for it. Thanks to Blumenthal's agitprop, the White House had one of its few good PR weeks. The New York Times headlined its story "President's Adviser Ordered to Divulge Contact With Press" and quoted Blumenthal as saying his subpoena represented "an outrageous attempt to silence all reporting that might be skeptical or critical of Ken Starr." Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry weighed in that Starr's questioning of Blumenthal was "potentially dangerous." And Blumenthal poured it on when he emerged from his grand-jury testimony on February 26. "I never imagined," he hyperventilated, "that in America I would be hauled before a federal grand jury to answer questions about my conversations with members of the media. But today, I was forced to answer questions about conversations, as part of my job, with the New York Times, CNN, CBS, Time magazine, U.S. News, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Observer, and there may have been a few others." It was a lie..It's easy to sympathize with the anger of grand jurors when they saw Blumenthal's dishonest performance after his February questioning. When he returned on June 25, the foreperson took the unusual step of rebuking him."

Las Vegas Review-Journal 10/14/98 "Let's concede for just a few moments the polemic advanced by Bill Clinton's supporters that "everybody lies about sex" and that Mr. Clinton's obvious, repeated perjury is A-OK. Fine. Let's talk about a president who waffles and plays word games in the arena of foreign policy. Case One: Iraq. Bill Clinton promised to punish Iraq with swift, sure military action unless Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein allowed the United Nations to proceed with inspections of the plants where weapons of mass destruction are produced.. Case Two: Communist North Korea. Kim Il Jong, the tyrant of the red hermit state, promised to scrap his nuclear weapons program under Bill Clinton's threat of tightened sanctions and a guarantee of food and other aid ..Case Three: Kosovo. Bill Clinton promised to strike hard at Yugoslavia if tyrant Slobodan Milosevic laid a hand on ethnic Albanians in the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo.. Case Four: South Asia. When India and Pakistan this year barged into the nuclear club with five atomic shots apiece, Mr. Clinton rattled on about non-proliferation. He did nothing to help these nations develop early-warning systems or offer them U.S. Cold War expertise to prevent accidental nuclear war..But it's all about sex, right? "

Weekly Standard 10/19/98 Rep. Paul McHale (D-PA) ".In the House of Representatives Thursday morning, October 8, 1998 Mr. Speaker: Franklin Roosevelt once said that the presidency "is preeminently a place of moral leadership." I want my strong criticism of President Clinton to be placed in context. I voted for President Clinton in 1992 and 1996. I believed him to be the "Man from Hope" as he was depicted in his 1992 campaign video. I have voted for more than three-fourths of the president's legislative agenda-and would do so again. My blunt criticism of the president has nothing to do with policy.Contrary to his later public statement, his answers were not "legally accurate"; they were intentionally and blatantly false. He allowed his lawyer to make arguments to the court based on an affidavit that the president knew to be false. The president later deceived the American people-and belatedly admitted the truth only when confronted, some seven months later, by a mountain of irrefutable evidence. I am convinced that the president would otherwise have allowed his false testimony to stand in perpetuity. What is at stake is really the rule of law."

FR, Darrell in Atlanta 5-1-98 Neal Boortz ".I was walking out of the station yesterday afternoon when I heard the voice of Sam Donaldson. He was asking the Liar in Chief a question at yesterday's press conference. The question ---- "As a standard for Presidents, What do you think ... does it matter what you do in private moments, as alleged, and particularly, does it matter if you have committed perjury or in another sense broken the law?.Well ... sit down. Here is Clinton's response to that question: "Well, since I have answered the underlying questions --- I really believe it's important not to say any more about this."."

New York Observer 10/19/98 Philip Weiss ". I told Mr. Blumenthal that something I'd seen with my eyes was more important to me than any report. I was at the Senate Whitewater hearings in summer 1995 when the committee was asking Clinton lawyers about the search of Vincent Foster's office following his death. Justice Department investigators wanted to search the office freely, White House lawyers stopped them. Congress had a bunch of records showing calls between the lawyers and Hillary Clinton, but the lawyers testified Hillary had nothing to do with it. "Sidney," I said. "I don't care about the search of Foster's office. As far as I know, the Administration had a right to rifle his papers before the F.B.I. came. But it was a legitimate question, and I'm telling you, I watched them lie. I sat there for two weeks and I made my own judgment. One after another, they came in and lied, and it shocked me precisely because it was such a trivial matter. I thought, These people will lie about everything." . Buried in the 4,600 pages of supplemental material to the Starr report lately released by the House is an episode involving phone calls and denial that makes my point. A high political official flat-out lied to the grand jury about a small matter touching on the Clintons. No one has picked up on this episode, but Ken Starr knows about it and, I wager, will one day indict the official for perjury..Her chief opponent that day was the studious Starr deputy from Texas, Solomon Wisenberg, who bored in on an obscure matter surrounding Mr. Hubbell. The former associate attorney general had gone to prison for overbilling clients at the Rose Law Firm, and Rose had sued Hubbell for about $450,000. Mr. Hubbell was talking about suing Rose back. And, as Ms. Scott readily conceded, she regularly spoke with the prisoner and his wife by phone. "Did you convey that to Webb Hubbell or his wife, that people in the White House circle were concerned about him countersuing the Rose Law Firm because it might drag in-somehow implicate the First Lady?" Mr. Wisenberg asked. "I don't know what you're talking about," Ms. Scott said. "I have absolutely no memory of anyone in the White House ever mentioning to me anything about this countersuit notion." Mr. Wisenberg came at the matter again and again. His questioning went on for several pages. Ms. Scott virtually mocked him. She called it a "funny" line of questioning. She told a second questioner she never talked about finances with the Hubbells. "I do not see how this mythical thing that I'm supposed to know is anything that I could comment on," she said. "Maybe I'm not coming up with the right words because you and I are talking at each other, not with each other ." Barely a month after Ms. Scott left the grand jury, Representative Dan Burton, Republican of Indiana, publicized something that Ms. Scott was apparently not aware of, that Mr. Hubbell's phone conversations from prison had been recorded.."

Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune 10/18/98 Ross Perot ".History teaches us that for any free society to survive and thrive it must rest on a strong moral and ethical base. The issue is not, "Did he lie under oath?" The issue is, "Did he lie?" And the answer is yes. Clinton has taught our children to lie. Clinton has taught our nation that a man does not have to be faithful to his wife and family and can repeatedly devastate them by his irresponsible actions. Clinton has taught our students in high school and college that anything goes in their sexual behavior. No wonder at least seven Boy Scouts in Utah who won Eagle awards for observing the oath of honor and duty to God, country and self -- the highest commendation boys age 11 to 17 can earn -- refused their certificates with Clinton's signature as honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America."

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 10/18/98 Meredith Oakley ".Kenneth Starr's activities and associations as an independent counsel have come under congressional scrutiny and Justice Department review, and Democrats could hardly be happier..Leave it to the Clintonites to attack a perceived enemy for something that might have happened in the past while defending their glorious leader on the ground that his past shouldn't be held against him. I'll be just as interested as the next guy in the outcome of these inquiries, the Clinton administration's own version of Starr Wars, but it would be kind of amusing if Starr were to use Bill Clinton's own approach in responding to critics, something along the lines of "I spoke the truth but did not volunteer information." Come to think of it, maybe he has. "This office," Starr said in a statement issued last week, "did not mislead the Department of Justice regarding relevant facts relating to its jurisdiction, or any expansion" of the Whitewater investigation.."

SF Chronicle Debra Saunders 10/6/98 ".``THIS IS not Watergate, it is an extramarital affair,'' said Representative John Conyers, ranking Democrat of the House Judiciary Committee. No, sir, this is about perjury. It also is about obstruction of justice. More than anything though, it is about arrogance. Weeks before his deposition, President Clinton knew that Paula Jones' attorneys were aware of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He even knew they knew about a hat pin he had given her. He had time to consider refusing to answer questions about Lewinsky. Instead, he chose to lie. And encourage Lewinsky to submit a false affidavit.."

Jewish World Review 10/20/98 Thomas Sowell ".People who glibly talk about "hate crimes" ignore both the past and the implications for the future in what they are advocating. It took centuries of struggle and people putting their lives on the line to get rid of the idea that a crime against "A" should be treated differently than the same crime committed against "B." After much sacrifice and bloodshed, the principle finally prevailed that killing a peasant deserved the same punishment as killing a baron. Now the "hate crime" advocates want to undo all that and take us back to the days when punishment did not fit the crime, but varied with who the crime was committed against.."

Washington Times 10/19/98 Greg Pierce ".First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton lashed out at Republicans in general and Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York in particular yesterday, accusing them of negative campaigning and relying on opinion polls rather than principle. Stumping for Democratic Senate hopeful Charles E. Schumer --whose campaign slogan is "D'Amato: Too many lies for too long"."

Washington Weekly 10/26/98 J Peter Mulhern ". The FOB's think they can score points in the great game by blaming Ken Starr and Newt Gingrich for that spectacle, so the airwaves crackle with phrases like "sexual McCarthyism." Like most effective lies, these charges of sexual McCarthyism rely on an element of truth. The public is right to feel squeamish about Clinton's humiliation. The investigation of Clinton's perjury shows how much of the private realm the government now occupies.. The FOB's part company with reality when they blame Ken Starr and those nasty Republicans in Congress for the sexual inquisition that snared Bill Clinton. Democrats in general, and Bill Clinton in particular, set that inquisition in motion. They stoked its fires. Until recently they claimed it as one of their proudest accomplishments... Democrats forced sexual harassment to the forefront of national political debate for the partisan purpose of torpedoing a Supreme Court nominee, and seized on Senator Packwood's embarrassment to keep it there.Underlying all the recent whining about sexual McCarthyism is a frivolous attitude about the law. Democrats serviced a loyal constituency by stamping their sensitivity to sexual harassment into our law. Now they attack their opponents for taking their legal innovations seriously. Apparently we were supposed to understand that all the noise about sexual harassment was mere spin. Just because we enacted some laws to make us look good, the FOB's tell us, is no reason to go around enforcing them when doing so makes us look bad.."

The Weekly Standard Current Issue Scrapbook ".As Andrew Marshall reported in the Independent, a London daily: "According to Mr. Blumenthal's testimony to the grand jury in the investigation by the special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, he is in charge of the 'special relationship' and looks after relations between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. 'He's (Blair) an old friend of mine, I introduced him to the President and the First Lady, and I act as a personal liaison between the President and the Office of the Prime Minister,' Mr. Blumenthal told the investigators." As if the President of the United States and the prime minister of Great Britain needed Sid's intervention to meet."

Detroit News 10/27/98 Freeper Dana Swift ".Neither does (Senator) Levin tell us how Americans would know the truth without Starr's efforts. But I expect the core of his complaint is that Judge Starr DID find the truth. This call to "reform" laws seems to occur only when Democrats are caught by the independent counsel law.."

The Washington Times 10/28/98 Kenneth R. Timmerman ".The White House and State Department spin machines were working overtime on Friday to make sure the mainstream media reported the Clinton administration version of the last minute break-down in the Wye Plantation negotiations. The "official" version, as reported by both The Washington Post and The Washington Times in Saturday editions, was that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a "last-minute demand" that President Clinton agree to release convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard -- so Mr. Netanyahu could "return home as a hero" with Pollard in his airplane.. Simply put, the issue is the truth. Israeli government sources party to what happened at the Wye Plantation are telling a very different story from the one put out by State Department spokesman James Rubin or by the "anonymous White House sources" quoted in the press. The Israeli sources claim that President Clinton made a solemn promise to Mr. Netanyahu at 4 a.m. on Friday morning at Wye River, only to break it several hours later after a CIA delegation rushed to the scene to urge the president not to release Pollard under any condition.."

National Review On-line 10/26/98 Jonah Goldberg ".In today's New York Times, Bill Safire rightly scolds President Clinton for telling a group of black ministers that reaching peace in the Middle East was part of his "personal journey of atonement." Safire calls Clinton "smarmy and solipsistic" for making the peace agreement a self-centered achievement. But this is Bill Clinton's way. There's a larger point to be made here, too. Clinton's spinners consistently and constantly say that the President has not been distracted by the scandal. But now the President says he's going for peace in the Middle East to make amends for Monica. You can't have it both ways.."

Insight Magazine 10/29/98 Jerry Zeifman "The moral authority of the presidency is now lower than at the time of Watergate. Many Democrats now have a double standard -- refusing to apply the same constitutional principles to Clinton that we applied to Nixon in 1974. At the same time Clinton's defenders are charging the Republicans with unfairness and prejudgment. Yet the truth is that even before we began any impeachment inquiry in 1973, 84 Democrats introduced actual impeachment resolutions on the House floor. In contrast, to date no Republican has introduced such a resolution. Instead the Republicans simply have called for an inquiry. None of us can be certain how history will regard the present crisis. Yet, it seems likely to me that our descenda nts will regard President Clinton as the most morally flawed president in our history -- and our Democratic Party of 1998 as afflicted by the deadly sin of hypocrisy."

Washinton Times 10/30/98 Jerry Seper ".President Clinton fired the ambassador to Eritrea last year for sexual misconduct with two U.S. Embassy employees, according to a confidential report obtained by The Washington Times. At a time when Mr. Clinton was involved in an "inappropriate" sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky and had been accused by two other women of making crude sexual advances, he recalled Ambassador John F. Hicks. The reasons for Mr. Hicks' recall from his post in Asmara, Eritrea --located on the Red Sea between Sudan and Ethiopia -- have not previously been made public. The firing followed complaints to the State Department from two embassy secretaries that he repeatedly groped, kissed, fondled, touched and called them at their homes despite numerous requests that he leave them alone. Mr. Hicks, a Clinton appointee, reportedly told one of his accusers, who is white, that she rejected him because he was black.."

Florida Times-Union 10/30/98 Editorial "Supporters of President Clinton who take refuge in the presidential rating polls must also acknowledge polls that show the public wants him punished, by about 2-to-1. Supporters also must acknowledge that they are proposing a two-tier justice system, with one standard for a liberal Democratic president and another for all other Americans. If the president is allowed to commit perjury because the underlying offense he lied about was merely sex, then all other Americans must be allowed to perjure themselves for the same reason as well. According to The Los Angeles Times, there are 115 people now serving time for committing perjury in federal court proceedings -- the same offense that has led to talk of impeaching Clinton. Furthermore, at least two of them lied about sex..At least three people lied under oath about consensual sex. Two are in detention. One is in the Oval Office."

"For the children" rhetoric v. Freeper notes on article NewsMax.com 11/2/98 Carl Limbacher [ARTICLE EXCERPTS FOLLOW] ".Here is the reason for the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings DNA revelation now surfacing in liberal media venues.Danny Williams,Clinton's hidden son and Chelsea's neglected half-brother,will emerge from the shadows at long last. ..But looks like the Presidential DNA may come in handy for something else beside flushing out the liar via Monica's semen-stained dress.."

"For the children" rhetoric v. NewsMax.com 11/2/98 Carl Limbacher ".Thirteen-year-old Danny Williams knows all about his famous parent and he wants the truth to come out, says his aunt, Lucille Bolton. "He wants to get it out in the open," Bolton told NewsMax.com, speaking out for the first time. "He's aware that Bill Clinton is supposed to be his father." Bolton was the boy's guardian for years as his mother, Bobbie Ann Williams, led a hard life on the streets of Little Rock. Meanwhile, Danny's alleged dad mapped out his road to the White House, offering neither financial nor emotional support for the boy. In an exclusive interview with NewsMax.com, Bolton described some of the challenges of caring for the boy she believed to be the president's only son as he grew up unacknowledged by his biological father in the poor black section of Arkansas' capital. Once, she even tried to enlist the help of Hillary Clinton during a personal conversation with the state's then first lady. Another time, Bolton showed up at the governor's mansion with little Danny in tow -- only to be turned away at the gates.."

National Review 11/3/98 Jonah Goldberg ".The President who has authored what his aides call "one-nation politics" has sanctioned this Democratic ad to be run on radio stations: "When you don't vote, you let another church explode. When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn. When you don't vote, you let another assault wound a brother or sister. When you don't vote, you let the Republicans continue to cut school lunches and Head Start." ."

Landmark Legal Foundation 11/4/98 Mark Levin ".In an commentary column in today's Washington Times, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark R. Levin raises questions about apparent contradictions in positions taken by Attorney General Janet Reno in relation to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and the Justice Department's campaign finance investigations.. The fact that Bill Clinton's personal lawyer and the House Democrats are demanding essentially the same investigative information is no coincidence. Recently, Gregory Craig, Mr. Clinton's taxpayer-financed impeachment counsel, told the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call that "[Mr. Starr's] referral may have misled the attorney general, may have misled the court." The newspaper reported that "Conyers' stepped-up investigation started shortly after that message was sent to congressional Democrats." "Committee Democrats insist they are not carrying the White House's water during the hearings, but Craig talks frequently with Conyers' top lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and the two see eye-to-eye on the direction of the investigation is heading, sources said." So, what will Miss Reno do in response to these congressional requests? Will she hand over to the Democrats the internal investigative information they seek, despite the fact that Mr. Starr's investigation is ongoing? Thus far, she has said nothing. Her silence demonstrates the partisanship she brings to her law enforcement job, for when the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee sought similar information from Miss Reno regarding her refusal to seek an independent counsel to investigate the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign-finance scandal, she said no and now faces possible contempt of Congress charges.."

Condemnation of Willie Horton politics v 1996 - Social Security and Medicare to scare the seniors

Condemnation of Willie Horton politics v 1998 - Reaction to Matthew Shephard murder as a hate crime against homosexuals

Condemnation of Willie Horton politics v 1998 - Reaction to abortionist murder

Condemnation of Willie Horton politics v 1998 - Eleventh hour claims of voter intimidation

Condemnation of Willie Horton politics v 1998 - Radio ad to the affect that a vote for a Republican is a vote for a Church burning

American Spectator 11/5/98 Robert Bork ".The one hilarious moment in the sad and disgusting Clinton saga came at a fundraiser in Cincinnati. Pursued by his own manifold sins, lies, and impeachable offenses, the president managed a straight face as he assured the audience that the real scandal was a "Washington obsessed with itself instead of America." This, from a man whose self-absorption is legendary, if not pathological, at least deserves an Oscar for best self-parody.."

The Oklahoman 11/7/98 ".IN the waning days of the '98 campaign Bill Clinton turned up the heat by playing the race card. On election's eve, Clinton suggested Republicans would try to keep African Americans from voting. Clinton said: "For the last several elections there have been examples in various states of Republicans either actually or threatening to try to intimidate or try to invalidate the votes of African Americans in precincts that are overwhelmingly African American -- mostly in places where they think it might change the outcome of the election." Clinton's message was more subtle than that Missouri Democratic Party ad: "When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn." He didn't go as far as a hate-filled piece an Oklahoma Democrat apparently sent to black churches. Yet it showed that while Clinton likes to preach racial harmony, he isn't shy about using race to divide when it suits his political interests.."

Forbes Magazine 12/10 1998 Thomas Sowell ".PERHAPS NO IMAGE better captures the duplicity of Bill Clinton than the videotape of him emerging from church services on Easter Sunday, carrying a Bible-on his way back to the White House and a rendezvous with Monica Lewinsky. Such duplicity has been the hallmark of both Clintons, whether in Arkansas or in Washington, and whether the issue concerned sex, money or anything else. Just as Bill Clinton has tried to escape a perjury charge by redefining "sex" and "alone," so Hillary Clinton sought to escape a perjury charge in connection with a fraudulent land deal known as Castle Grande by saying, "the term 'Castle Grande' was not defined" after she had denied under oath that she knew anything about it-and after evidence later surfaced, showing that she did. Castle Grande was a highly publicized land deal in Arkansas-perhaps not as highly publicized as sex, but equally unmistakable.."

House of Representatives 9/11/98 Chris Cox R-CA ". Rep. Christopher Cox. That is exactly right, and it is rather clear that Jane Sherburne, the associate White House counsel who personally drew up this list of all of these scandals, was prescient. While they were claiming no wrongdoing, behind the scenes they were putting together memorandums like this, and the result in the ensuring years has been that 5 of Bill Clinton's closest associates, including his Attorney General and including the Governor of Arkansas, have since been convicted of crimes. Rep. Robert Walker So what they were doing here was they decided that, `OK, we've got a problem. We've got a Congress that is likely to begin looking into things that have gone wrong in this administration.'."

House of Representatives 9/11/98 Chris Cox R-CA ".Rep. Christopher Cox. There is no question that this memo gives the lie to two claims made by the White House. The first is that they would be relying on outside counsel, which, of course, they should, because these are all scandals, private criminal problems of the people involved. Clearly they were still using the White House counsel's office, even after they hired their outside counsel.."

Reuters 11/4/98 Danny Gur-arieh ".The wife of convicted American spy Jonathan Pollard said on Wednesday President Bill Clinton's promise to review her husband's case was a "charade" that would not bring his release. Esther Pollard accused Israeli, Palestinian and American leaders of exploiting her husband for political gain during Middle East peace talks in the United States last month and said Pollard's cause had been dealt a setback. "The worst thing that could happen now would be for people to go along with the charade that this review is serious," Esther Pollard told Reuters in an interview. "The review business with Clinton is bogus. Clinton has used my husband like a Persian carpet in a bazaar. He has sold him five times over."."

Washington Post 11/10/98 Peter Baker ".President Clinton asked a federal judge last winter to prevent Secret Service officers from testifying in the Paula Jones case, arguing that his confidential relationship with his protectors ``should be inviolate,'' according to court documents unsealed Monday. The strongly worded plea last January, in which his attorney wrote that the president ``emphatically expresses his support'' for a Secret Service privilege, indicates that Clinton played more of a role than previously known in trying to block those who guard him from being forced to reveal his secrets. For months, the White House has portrayed Clinton as a virtually disinterested observer as the Secret Service fought unsuccessfully to block subpoenas by Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation, insisting that the president played no role in the dispute. But the papers made public Monday showed that Clinton made nearly identical arguments as the Secret Service during the Jones case in a sealed brief that also was given at the time to the Justice Department lawyers who would later represent the Secret Service against Starr.."

Washington Times Weekly 11/8/98 Byron York ".John McSweeney, 64 years old, died of cancer last month at his home in Fauquier County, Virginia.In the next few days it became clear that Mr. McSweeney and the others were fired because Bill and Hillary Clinton wanted to steer travel office business to friends who had supported them in the 1992 campaign. Of course, that's not what the president said publicly, and Mr. McSweeney grew angry as he watched Mr. Clinton offer several different explanations for the firings.."

Washington Times 11/11/98 Frank Murray ".The House Judiciary Committee legal staff has concluded that the crimes independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr charged to President Clinton are impeachable offenses. The staff's official printed report outlined "clear guiding principles" that make it more likely the full House will vote on the accusations against the president. The committee staff conclusions directly contradict earlier arguments by the president's lawyers and by some of the 19 constitutional scholars who debated the issue for 10 hours Monday at a contentious congressional hearing. A copy of the report was obtained yesterday by The Washington Times. It concluded that impeachable offenses include "false statements ... under oath," a lesser crime than perjury and easier to prove because intent is not an element. The 94-page committee document declared that articles of impeachment can involve personal or professional misconduct that need not be criminal, and said the constitutional standard for judges and presidents alike is meant to be identical. "There isn't much doubt that he did willfully misstate the facts under oath. It's pretty clear," Mr. Hyde said in a pre-election interview, seemingly accepting as fact a charge that his staff now says is an impeachable offense. The report was quietly distributed as a guide to the decisions by the committee's 37 members, just as a similar document guided the hands that wrote the 1974 articles of impeachment against President Nixon. White House spokesman James Kennedy argued that impeaching an elected president is far more disruptive to the continuity of government than impeaching one of hundreds of appointed federal judges. "So they've fallen short of constitutional standards, they've departed from past precedent and they've broken with past Republican precedent on that issue," said Mr. Kennedy, who said he had not seen the document..Mr. Watt charged that the title pages implied it was the bipartisan product of the committee, rather than simply the majority staff. "I don't think the criticism is appropriate," Mr. Hyde responded to Mr. Watt. He said Democratic staff members were given a copy before it was printed and asked for input. "They came forth with nothing," Mr. Hyde said, adding that Democrats put out three analyses in 1973 and 1974 without ever consulting with GOP committee members. Mr. Watt replied, "Two wrongs don't make a right" and contradicted the assertion that minority staffers had a chance to respond before the printing date. "I keep hoping that we will rise to the level of statesmanship here, rather than lowering to the standard that somebody who did something that was not justified in the past did," Mr. Watt said."

New York Post 11/11/98 ".Someone high up in the Clinton administration owes Scott Ritter a public apology. Last August, Ritter resigned in disgust as chief U.N. arms inspector in Iraq. The courageous ex-Marine charged that Washington had backed off its policy on Saddam Hussein, quietly abandoning support for the international team that was aggressively searching for the Iraqi despot's weapons of mass destruction. The Clinton administration hotly denied Ritter's assertions. At first, it suggested he'd overstepped his mandate. Then it leaked baseless accusations that he was illegally slipping classified information to Israel. It now turns out - no big surprise - that Ritter was absolutely on target. According to numerous reports this week, the Clintonites secretly decided last spring to undercut the weapons inspections in favor of a policy of containment - abandoning the search for such arms in hopes of merely preventing their use. Ritter & Co. had uncovered secret Iraqi caches of deadly, forbidden weapons - including anthrax (2,000-plus gallons), botulinium toxin (5,125 gallons), ricin, sarin and VX; some of these chemicals need just a few drops to kill thousands. They also found evidence that Iraq lacks only enriched uranium to detonate nuclear weapons. Some of these deadly weapons have been destroyed; others remain hidden. Even as Ritter and his U.N. team launched surprise inspections of Iraqi facilities, however, the Clinton administration moved swiftly to cut the legs out from under them. Publicly, meanwhile, the president has talked tough - only to back down at the last minute in favor of a conciliatory settlement."

ABC News 11-11-98 Freeper reports ".In the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, many Americans may feel that it is okay to lie under oath in a civil suit. This is simply not so. Sam Donaldson talks to three women who did just that, and paid a very high price- time in prison. Tonight on 20/20 - Sam intervies three who are in jail for lies under oath.."

Fox News 11/11/98 ".Republican Sen. Arlen Specter proposed Wednesday that Congress drop impeachment proceedings against President Clinton to open the way for his criminal prosecution when he leaves office.."However, if Congress deliberately avoided impeachment to leave the president open to criminal prosecution, I believe Mr. Clinton would face the distinct possibility of conviction and a jail sentence,'' said Specter, a former Philadelphia district attorney."

Investors Business Daily 11/12/98 Brian Mitchell ".It isn't every day that military officers risk their pensions to declare publicly that their commander in chief is a loser. But two Marine Corps majors have dared to do just that. In a recent issue of Navy Times, Maj. Shane Sellers called President Clinton an ''adulterous liar,'' prompting the Defense Department to remind all service members that they are forbidden from using ''contemptuous words'' about the president. That warning didn't stop Marine Corps Reserve Maj. Daniel Rabil, however. In a guest column in the Nov. 9 Washington Times, Rabil called Clinton a ''lying draft dodger'' and ''hypocrite- in-chief.'' ''I therefore risk my commission, as our generals will not, to urge'' Clinton's impeachment, he wrote. Rabil's column is the tip of an iceberg of discontent. Many more service members are fed up with the dishonesty they see not just in their commander in chief, but also in their civilian and military superiors in the Pentagon. As U.S. military activity in Iraq and the Balkans picks up, this discontent in the ranks is particularly worrisome. The credibility of the top brass has taken several beatings in recent months. The worst occurred when the Joint Chiefs of Staff finally admitted to the Senate on Sept. 29 what press reports had indicated for months: The services are facing severe readiness problems caused by overwork and underfunding. In February, the Joint Chiefs had told Congress there was no cause for alarm. The services were ''fundamentally healthy'' and ''fully capable'' of accomplishing all their missions. They could even fight two wars at once, as required by the National Military Strategy. Seven months later, after the discovery of an unexpected budget surplus, the chiefs' concern for readiness compelled them to asked the president and Congress for more money. The sudden turnaround irked Republican legislators who have pushed for higher defense funding against administration resistance. Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H., pronounced the chiefs ''AWOL from the debate.'' ''We were always accused of giving more or providing more to the Pentagon than the generals and admirals asked for,'' Smith said. ''That's tough to defend out there politically.'' Defense Secretary William Cohen later tried to take the heat off the chiefs by claiming they were just following his orders. That's just the problem, say the administration's critics. ''They're following orders, and their orders are to come here and lie to Congress,'' said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., at a recent conference in Washington on the Pentagon's problems, sponsored by the Center for Military Readiness.."

The Post-Dispatch 11/13/98 Roy Malone ".Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, has covered Washington politics for 52 years. He spoke to several hundred people at Powell Hall as part of the St. Louis Speakers Series.. "How can we prosecute others for perjury and refuse to act against President Clinton?" he said.."

CNS 11/13/98 Judy Cooley ".White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said he is "not aware" that President Clinton has even looked at the 81 questions the House Judiciary Committee asked him to answer for the impeachment inquiry. Lockhart had earlier said the president would complete the impeachment questionnaire as early as this week, according to published reports. The questions ask the president to confirm or deny allegations made in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report.."

AP 11/13/98 ".Q: Mr. President, did you ever make any sexual advances toward Paula Jones? A: No, I did not. ------ Q: Now, Mr. President, you've stated earlier in your testimony that you do not recall with any specificity the May 8, 1991, conference at the Excelsior. Is that correct? A: That's correct. Q: If that is true, sir, how can you be sure that you did not do these things which are alleged in Ms. Jones' complaint? A: Because, Mr. Bennett, in my lifetime I've never sexually harassed a woman, and I've never done what she accused me of doing. I didn't do it then, because I never have, and I wouldn't.."

Newsweek 11/23/98 Kenneth L. Woodward ".Politically, the president may survive his time on the cross, but many clergy still doubt his spiritual sincerity. In a strongly worded declaration last week, 90 religion scholars charged Clinton and his clerical apologists with "the manipulation of religion and the debasing of moral language." The president "continues to deny any liability for the sins he has confessed," and this, they argue, "suggests that his public display of repentance was intended to avoid political disfavor." The declaration is a direct challenge to Clinton's spiritual counselors, such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, the Clintons' pastor in Washington, D.C., who have called on the nation to forgive and forget the president's sins. "The widespread desire to 'get this behind us'," the scholars declare, "does not take seriously enough the nature of transgressions and their social effects." Those who disagree are invited to debate the subject on the declaration's Web site (www.moral-crisis.org).."

New York Times 11/17/98 William Glaberson ".A Texas judge was convicted of perjury for declaring that he had used political contributions to buy flowers for his staff when, in fact, the flowers went to his wife. A Florida postal supervisor is in prison for denying in a civil deposition that she had a sexual relationship with a subordinate. An Ohio youth who was arrested for underage drinking testified that he had never been read his rights by the police. He was then convicted of perjury for lying and sent to jail for 60 days.. The president's lawyer, David Kendall, has said that "no prosecutor in the United States would bring a perjury prosecution on the basis" of the kinds of questions Clinton was asked about his sex life in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit. But interviews with lawyers, legal experts and with a woman who is serving a sentence for lying about sex in a civil case show that, far from being shrugged off, the threat of prosecution for perjury, even in civil cases, is a crucial deterrent in the legal system... One statistic on perjury prosecutions has been widely circulated since the president's supporters began arguing that perjury was little more than a technicality seized upon by the president's enemies: Of 49,655 cases filed by federal prosecutors last year, only 87 were for perjury. State courts, where statistics are harder to come by, are another matter. Data supplied by court officials in two states, California and New York, suggest that perjury prosecutions are not as rare as some have suggested. In California alone last year, there were 4,318 felony perjury cases. In New York there were 395 perjury cases last year. And even in the federal system, prison officials said in October that 115 people were serving sentences for perjury in federal prisons alone.."

AP 11/17/98 ".An election-eve church speech by President Clinton has provoked a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service, claiming the church violated its tax-exempt status. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said the Nov. 1 service at New Psalmist Baptist Church amounted to a Democratic rally, The (Baltimore) Sun reported today. Clinton was joined there by Gov. Parris Glendening, who was re-elected two days later...According to IRS regulations, churches and other nonprofit organizations that hold tax-exempt status are not permitted to engage in partisan politics. That includes endorsing or opposing candidates, giving money to political campaigns, or helping candidates win election. After the 1992 election, Americans United complained to the IRS that a small church in Vestal, N.Y., had bought newspaper advertisements two days before the election urging voters to reject Clinton on moral grounds. The IRS revoked the church's tax exemption in 1995. Another group then sued the IRS, contending it violated the church's free-speech and equal-protection rights. A decision in that case is pending."

Freeper EagleTD reports KABC Radio11/17/98 ".This evening, on the Ken and John Radio Show on KABC in Los Angeles, I head a Clintonista activist who just formed the "Committee to Oust Paula" (COP) from California. Her name was Temperance Lance, her argument was that since California was a state that Clinton had won, that the majority of the people in California did not want Paula around because she was part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (headed of course by Ken Starr) that unfairly wants to take their poor innocent President down. Can you imagine the sheer lunacy and meanest of this group? She is now in the process of getting ten petitions signed around the state to try and drive Paula out, or at least try to make it hard for her to stay." and Freeper Always Right observes "It's mean spirited to inform neighbors that a convicted child molester is living in your neighborhood, but it's OK to not allow a victim of sexual harrassment live in your state. These people have values."

NewsMax.com 11/17/98 Sam Smith ".Here is the president's response to a news conference question about whether the Lippo Group's hiring of Webb Hubbell after he resigned from the Justice Department and shortly before he went to jail wasn't a bit suspicious. For your benefit, we have numbered Clinton's denials: "(1)Well, first of all, I didn't know about it. (2) To the best of my recollection, I didn't know anything about his having that job until I read about it in the press. (3) And I can't imagine who could have ever arranged to do something improper like that and no one around here knows about it. (4) And I can tell you categorically that that did not happen. (5) I knew nothing about it -- no -- none of us did -- before it happened. (6) And I didn't personally know anything about it till I read about it in the press . . . (7) And I am just telling you it's not so."."

Sacbee Voices 11/17/98 George Wil ".America nearly went to war last weekend in defense of weapons inspections in Iraq that U.S. diplomacy surreptitiously subverted last summer. That subversion provoked an American rarity, a resignation on principle, by an American rarity, inspector Scott Ritter, who never learned in the Marine Corps the delicacies of surrender.."

Washington Post 11/18/98 Michael Kelly ".Over at the White House, the search continues for a Legacy (it must be here; has anyone looked in the book room?). Here's one: Bill Clinton made the world a more dangerous place. We are, and have been since the late 1980s, in the time that precedes the time of serious war, a building period of sorts. Around the world, hungry little states are building up their arsenals toward the day when they may reach out and gobble up a neighbor or two. The United States can do nothing to stop this entirely; a world unfrozen by the Cold War's thaw is bound to be a rapacious place..Clinton's responses to the great tests of foreign policy crises are a matter of personality, not strategy. Clinton lies, as all liars do, out of a failure of courage. He does not want to face hard truths; he does not want to pay a price; he does not want to feel his own pain. So, he will swallow a fiction -- yet another promise from Saddam Hussein, or from North Korea, or from China, or from India, or from whomever -- rather than deal with unpleasant reality.."

Washington Times 11/17/98 Bruce Fein ".As Jerry Zeifman, then Democratic chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, recently lectured in Insight magazine: "It simply is not true that the vote to reject the income tax article was based on a determination that the filing of a false income return was purely a 'personal' matter, and therefore not impeachable. The truth is that neither the House Judiciary Committee members nor my staff had found any substantial evidence that President Nixon had committed income tax evasion, which is a felony." In accord with Mr. Zeifman's understanding, the House Judiciary Committee's Aug. 20, 1974, report to the full House concluded: "The willful evasion of taxes by a president would be conduct incompatible with the duties of his office, which obligate him faithfully to execute the laws." In other words, a president's personal income tax filings emphatically do implicate his distinct presidential duty to enforce, not sabotage, the law; and, that criminal tax evasion is incompatible with that unflagging constitutional responsibility. Despite the committee's limpid language, professor Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a decorated Ursa Major among historians, boldly maintained before the subcommittee that "in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee, confronted by convincing evidence that President Nixon had connived at the backdating of documents in the interests of tax fraud, dropped the charge on the ground that such personal misconduct did not involve official actions or abuse of executive power and thus was not an impeachable offense.".

New York Times 11/19/98 William Safire ".After months of complaining that Ken Starr's initial referral was "only about lying about sex," Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee now insist the impeachment hearings be limited to sex, the whole sex and nothing but the sex. When chairman Henry Hyde steered the inquiry beyond President Clinton's Lewinsky perjuries, the Democratic leader, Dick Gephardt, had a hissy fit. Stick to the sex (which turns people off) or we walk, was his message. Hyde called that bluff; the boycott threat was hastily withdrawn .."

The New York Times 11/18/98 Maureen Dowd ".But in the weeks since the election there has been too much gloating from the White House and its supporters. And there has been too much self- lacerating journalistic commentary misconstruing the public reaction as a vindication of the President. He won. The press lost. The press should get lost. Game over. In a nation ruled by polls and ratings, where even newspapers hire focus groups to see what kind of news readers want, we are losing sight of something we should have learned as teen-agers: Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's right. At the White House, the truth is employed only to the extent that it's useful. When the Monica story broke, Dick Morris said, the President asked him to do a poll to tell him what would play better, the truth or a lie."

AP 11/18/98 ".Armed with disturbing new allegations about Espy, who was already under investigation for taking improper gifts, then-White House chief of staff Leon Panetta summoned Espy to his office in September 1994 and told him to resign, Panetta testified. ``I wanted to hear the secretary's explanations,'' Panetta told attentive jurors, as Espy scribbled notes at the defense table. ``Very frankly, at the end of that conversation I said to the secretary that based on what he said to me that he ought to submit his resignation.'' Panetta immediately told President Clinton what had happened at the meeting, and Clinton agreed that Espy must resign, Panetta testified.. Under cross-examination by defense lawyer Reid Weingarten, Panetta said he never determined whether Espy broke the law and didn't much care. The appearance of an ethical problem was reason enough for Espy to resign, and the resignation was punishment enough for anything Espy might have done wrong, Panetta said.."

Liberty 11/98 R.W. Bradford ".In the Jones case, he denied having either a "sexual relationship," or "sexual relations" or a "sexual affair" with Lewinsky. He claimed he could not remember ever being alone with her. He claimed he could not remember giving her any gifts, although he had given her gifts only three weeks earlier. He denied talking to Lewinsky about the pending Jones case. And he denied discussing Lewinsky's role in the Jones case with his friend Vernon Jordan. There is a mountain of evidence, including in the president's own subsequent grand jury testimony, that these statements were lies. In his testimony before the grand jury in August, he claimed that he never touched Lewinsky's breasts or genitals.* And he claimed that his sexual contact with Lewinsky began in 1996, after she had obtained a paying job at the White House, thus avoiding the embarrassing charge of having sex with an unpaid intern. Again, the report produces a mountain of evidence that these statements are false.In point of fact, the report is more about the president's attempts to keep Lewinsky quiet than it is about sex. The main section of the report, the "narrative," comprises some 42,948 words, of which only 7,472 are about the sexual encounters between Clinton and Lewinsky. The charges made in the report arise out of the president's lying about his sex life, so it is impossible to evaluate them without reporting on those aspects of his sex life that he is accused of lying about under oath..."

Boston Globe 11/21/98 John Ellis ".Every day, in conferences rooms and offices all across America, men and women are deposed in civil cases and criminal investigations. And every day, each and every one of those men and women raise their right hands and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them God. And every day, all these people are informed that if they do not tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, they will have committed a felony crime, punishable by up to five years in prison. That's the law of the land. What was most remarkable about the opening day of the impeachment hearings was that no one contested the central facts of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's prepared testimony, nor did anyone tangle with his interpretation of the law...Having neither the law nor the facts on his side, Clinton chose instead to argue prosecutorial process and to amplify an already unprecedented attack on the character of the independent counsel. Incredibly enough, this two-pronged strategy has worked. It is now likely that the House of Representatives will not approve articles of impeachment for the Senate's consideration. Assuming that no articles of impeachment are approved, the matter will then be left to the discretion of the Office of the Independent Counsel, which would be unlikely to seek indictments until after President Clinton has finished his term..Sanctioning such conduct would mean that the laws that all the rest of us must obey do not apply to Bill Clinton. That's a very dangerous precedent to establish. That's exactly the precedent that Democrats on the Judiciary Committee like John Conyers, Bill Delahunt, and Marty Meehan propose be established. It is to Ken Starr's and Henry Hyde's everlasting credit that they have resisted such an outcome and continue to do so.."

Savannah Morning News 11/21/98 Editorial ".If Americans aren't moved to mount the ramparts, they at least should take time to ponder what it means to have a president who believes it is OK to lie under oath whenever it suits him. They should weigh the consequences of denying parties in lawsuits the opportunity to obtain truthful evidence, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to equal protection under the law.."

WorldNetDaily 11/23/98 Charles Smith ".In 1997, the Clinton administration quietly announced that the Russian Zvezda-Strela Kh-31 missile would be the Navy's next generation super-sonic target drone without issuing an open contract (RFP). The reason given for the extra-ordinary Russian weapons purchase was that the Navy had run out of U.S. made super-sonic target missiles called the "Vandal." ..Yet, according to the House letter, there is no Navy "missile gap." The three congressmen wrote Defense Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition Dr. H. Lee Buchanan: "Should the Navy procure the last 30 EER Vandal targets remaining as planned, it is our understanding they would have enough targets to meet the test requirements through 2003." Captain J. R. Trowbridge replied on Oct. 23, 1998. "We are gathering information necessary to provide you with a substantive response and will reply further upon completion of our investigation into this matter," wrote Captain Trowbridge. "You can expect a final response by 10 November, 1998.". The obviously false claim by the Clinton administration that there were no more U.S.-made missiles left is compounded by the public announcement of inflated test results by Boeing from the Russian missile test program. In 1998, Boeing claimed to Aviation Week & Space Technology that the Russian Kh-31 flew over 50 miles during live fire tests. The claim is clearly false. This author obtained the actual test results compiled by Boeing which showed the Kh- 31 flew a mere 16 miles under the best of conditions.."

FOX News 11/24/98 Reuters ".U.S. District Court judges on Tuesday sentenced one man involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to 10 months in jail and another to eight years. Judge Whitman Knapp passed the lighter sentence - amounting to time served - on Ibrahim Ahmad Suleiman, convicted last January on two counts of perjury for lying to the grand jury investigating the bombing.."

Investors Business Daily 11/27/98 Editorial ".The conventional wisdom has President Clinton surviving the impeachment process - the rule of law be damned. If that comes to pass, future - and present - lawmakers may figure they can do as they please without fear of punishment. Beyond those pitfalls lies another danger peculiar to this president...Moreover, censure would have little redemptive effect on Clinton. Some people breathe easier after they've narrowly escaped punishment for their wrongdoing. They're truly ashamed of their behavior. They pledge to go straight. But with Clinton, we already know how good his word is. He's pledged contrition and sought forgiveness. But he continues to lie. He thinks the polls absolve him, thus reinforcing his own denial of any wrongdoing. This amoral denial will also convince him he can do no wrong. So look for even more reckless behavior.."

The Washington Times 11/23-29/98 Wes Pruden ".And in Tokyo, the president sent his flacks out to deliver one more lie, that he is not even paying attention to what's going on in Washington. Mr. Clinton was asked how he had apologized to his wife and daughter, and whether they gave any weight to his apology. "I did it in a direct and straightforward manner." "Did they forgive him?" "I believe they did, yes," He said the young Japanese inquirer should properly ask that question of Hillary and Chelsea, as if she could. There were published accounts abroad that Chelsea, along at Stanford, has had screaming matches with her father, pleading from the broken heart of a child: "How could you have done this to us?"."

New American 11/27/98 William Jasper ".In his 1992 campaign book Putting People First, candidate Clinton charged that American politics had become "hostage" to monied interests. Brimming with righteous indignation, the "Boy from Hope" asserted that "political action committees, industry lobbies, and cliques of $100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House." But a Clinton Presidency, the crusading "outsider" solemnly assured, would be "the most ethical administration in the history of the republic." But for those with eyes to see, the tarnish on the Clinton Camelot was glaringly obvious before his first White House inauguration. The "character" factor that had dogged him during the '92 campaign - pot smoking, lying, draft dodging, marital infidelities, financial misdeeds, gubernatorial scandals - soon proved more important than the "charm" factor that won him the election. Even some of Mr. Clinton's staunchest cheerleaders have been forced ruefully to acknowledge that his Presidency has been the most ethically challenged Administration in the history of the republic. Big-League Corruption."

Washington Post 11/29/98 ".PRESIDENT CLINTON'S answers to 81 questions from the House Judiciary Committee were guided by one basic principle: Admit nothing. Though each question was phrased as a request for an admission or denial from the president, Mr. Clinton never once responded by simply using the word "admitted." When he was asked to admit or deny that he called Betty Currie on Jan. 18 at 11:02 p.m., for example, he responded: "According to White House records included in the OIC Referral, I called Ms. Currie's residence on January 18, 1998, at or about 11:02 p.m." Even when he was asked to admit or deny that he is the chief law enforcement officer of the country -- hardly a point of serious contention -- he could not bring himself to offer a straight answer, giving, instead, a lesson in constitutional structure that was, presumably, not what the questioners had in mind. "The President is frequently referred to as the chief law enforcement officer, although nothing in the Constitution specifically designates the President as such," he wrote, noting that "the law enforcement function is a component" of the president's executive power..But the president can reasonably be expected to behave like something a little grander than a possible defendant in a criminal case. Whether he admits it or not, he remains the chief law enforcement officer of the country, and he has a continuing obligation to see that the laws are faithfully executed. His behavior is necessarily an example to the nation, and it is thoroughly beneath his office for him to respond to congressional inquiries with all the candor of a tobacco executive..Were Mr. Clinton to come forward, without regard for the eventual legal consequences, and say that it is his duty as president to confirm the truthful allegations in the Starr report and rebut others with new information, the House could at least then discuss the question of impeachment without the sense that the president is mocking its proceedings just as he mocked the federal criminal investigation that gave rise to them.."

Capitol Hill Blue 11/28/98 ".Differences between President Clinton's testimony last Jan. 17 in the Paula Jones case and some of his testimony Aug. 17 during his grand jury appearance: ON BEING ALONE Jan. 17 At any time were you and Monica Lewinsky together alone in the Oval Office? A. I don't recall. Q. Your testimony is that it was possible, then, that you were alone with her, but you have no specific recollection of that ever happening? A. Yes, that's correct. Aug. 17 Q. How many times were you alone with Ms. Lewinsky? A. Based on our records, between February and December (1997) it appears to me that at least I could have seen her approximately nine times. ... I have a general memory that would say I certainly saw her more than twice during that period between January and April of 1996, when she worked there..

Capitol Hill Blue 11/28/98 ".Differences between President Clinton's testimony last Jan. 17 in the Paula Jones case and some of his testimony Aug. 17 during his grand jury appearance: Jan. 17 Q. Have you ever talked to Monica Lewinsky about the possibility that she might be asked to testify in this lawsuit? A. I'm not sure. ... Seems to me