Newsweek 10/5/98 Jonathan Alter "The scene was surreal--as if none of this had happened at all. On the same day his grand-jury testimony aired, I saw the president at an early-evening reception at New York University. He was up--too up--after his standing ovation earlier that day at the United Nations. His peer group--the leaders of the world--are solidly behind him, and annoyed at the U.S. Congress. Many are themselves oversexed politicians. Their fears of an arrogant United States have been replaced by fears of a crippled one. Some of the Latin American leaders apparently joked with Clinton that he's lucky: at least the coup against him is bloodless. The president of Uruguay told him: "Resist. Resist. Resist." And he will. All the way past impeachment to a full trial in the U.S. Senate. Resignation talk is pointless. The die is almost cast: awful partisan squabbling about sex as far as the eye can see. The president, Congress and the press-- locked up together in history's bedchamber. No exit. For anyone."

Stuart Taylor National Journal 9/26/98 "A woman asked Benjamin Franklin in 1787 what the Framers had created at the Constitutional Convention. His reply: ''A republic--if you can keep it.'' Franklin's words resonate today. Two extraordinary events occurred this week. Both shed light on the health of what the Constitution calls our ''republican form of government.'' The first was salubrious (if premature): the release of President Clinton's videotaped testimony before the Starr grand jury, providing a remarkable opportunity for all Americans to judge whether their president had committed impeachable offenses. The second event was profoundly disturbing (if unsurprising): The instant reaction to the Clinton testimony by media elites--who style themselves guardians of the Republic, educators of the masses, and tribunes of truth- -was little short of decadent. What mattered most in the Clinton testimony and the other material released this week was not the fresh porn that the press so happily deplored--and what dreary, dull porn it was--but the fresh evidence of his criminality. What mattered was whatever evidentiary light was shed on the question of whether he has committed (and is still committing) impeachable offenses. This obvious point has escaped the press. It has also escaped much of the public, in part because the press abdicated its claimed educational role while implicitly advocating government by plebiscite.What is news is that the nation saw its president plainly, recurringly, lie under oath to a grand jury. That's a sad commentary on the health of the Republic. Even sadder is the press's playing of this event as just another chapter in The Return of the Comeback Kid. "

Barbara Simpson Show KSFO San Francisco 9/27/98 Freeper Report, guest Gary Aldrich ". There are 2 more women at the White House who have had sexual relations with Bill Clinton.. Bill and Hillary would never be able to pass a background check if they needed a security clearance as required by ordinary channels.. Alrich states that whereas we now have a national dialogue about the now-famed "I" word, we will soon embark into discussions heavily laden WITH THE "T" WORD.."

Pat Buchanas 9/22/98 "Just as Watergate was always about much more than who covered up a minor break-in, so the scandal that roils this city now is about far more than whether Bill Clinton exploited a 21-year-old intern and lied about it under oath. Monicagate is a battlefield in the war for the soul of America, a war that is religious and cultural in character, as well as political..In the culture, Woodstock triumphed. Hollywood today celebrates values that are the antithesis of the patriotism, courage, fidelity and honor it celebrated only 40 years ago. But in politics, Woodstock was routed. The dominant figure of the new era turned out to be a Midwestern personification of the old virtues who had declared Vietnam "a noble cause" -- Ronald Reagan...With all the talk of "war," "scorched earth" and tearing open closets, this is clearly a struggle over more than Clinton's political survival. Believing Clinton's conduct to be inexcusably immoral, beneath any minimal standard of decency demanded of its leaders, traditional America means to purge him from office for living by Woodstock values that most of America's social and media elite also embrace..."

Various Freeper reports 9/26/98 on San Antonio Texas demonstrations: 1) the Bush for President signs were pulled and destroyed illegally and 2) an Air Force bus was used to move pro- Clinton people closer to the site of the fundraiser.

9/28/98 New York Times Lizette Alvarez "As Democrats and the White House, buoyed by polls, sharpened their attacks against Republicans Sunday, three veteran politicians said that there would be no deal between President Clinton and Congress until after the Nov. 3 elections..Heartened by recent national surveys that show a backlash against Republicans for their handling of the scandal and for releasing mounds of documents with lurid detail, Democrats continued to float alternatives to impeachment Sunday, displaying relief at the latest turn of events. His own confidence brimming anew, Clinton has now taken to lashing out at Republicans for putting "partisanship over progress, politics over people," as he said on Friday. Republicans bristle at the charge, saying they are busy passing legislation, including tax cuts and spending bills, while Clinton is off raising money, trying to change the subject and stirring up partisan animosity "This is just more of their pattern of conduct that goes all the way back to Arkansas, a pattern of conduct that's been established now by Ken Starr of lying, of covering-up, of stonewalling, and destroying your enemies," Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas, the Republican whip, said on the ABC program "This Week With San Donaldson and Cokie Roberts."."

Insight Magazine EZINE 10/19/98 Timony Maier "Beneath the surface of Bill Clinton's sex scandals quietly grows an even greater threat to the White House. Will Democrats' dirty money sink the president? The videotape rolled but the bomb didn't drop. President Clinton's evasive responses to the grand jury failed to ignite the doomsday explosion that some critics predicted. But although he bought some time, it may not be enough. Sex, lies and Lewinsky may be the least of Clinton's concerns. Two grand juries and three Justice Department inquiries are probing possible criminal charges concerning public abuse of power, and their findings could become part of the impeachment probe. It may turn out to be not about dirty sex but about dirty money.."

Capitol Hill Blue 9/27/98 Jim Abrams "Three veteran politicians suggested as possible mediators between President Clinton and Congress over the Lewinsky affair say there won't be a deal before the November elections. ``Probably not much can happen until maybe next year,'' said former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole. ``Right now, instead of a race to judgment, you are looking at a race to the election,'' said former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, who appeared with Dole and former Senate Republican leader Howard Baker on NBC's ``Meet thePress.'' ."

Detroit News 9/28/98 Tony Snow ".Tellingly, congressional Democrats have never much trusted this man. He has betrayed them too often. Now come reports that the White House is using thug tactics to create a proxy for party unity. The Democratic National Committee evidently is threatening to deny funds to incumbents who refuse to stand by the president. It's hard to imagine which option is worse: losing the money or posing with The Big Creep. The Monica mess stirs up other, more profound issues, of course - including the question of whether we stand for anything... The Clinton lexicon is crafted not of words or letters, but of avarice and oil. His Bible features not only eloquence, but also convenient wording changes. When he recently sermonized before religious leaders, he revised the 51st Psalm, which mentions a broken spirit and a contrite heart. He talked instead of a broken spirit and a strong heart. (Soon after, he threatened to unleash his lawyers - something King David never thought to do.) Clinton has become America's patron sinner."

Bill McClellan St Louis Post Dispatch 9/28/98 "Let's imagine you're Dick Gephardt. Even when you were just an alderman in St. Louis, you always wanted to be president. Now you are one of a very select group - numbering, perhaps, no more than a dozen - who have a realistic chance of getting to the White House in 2000. You've spent the weekend in California, hobnobbing with the kind of people who can help get you there. You're a big deal in Washington and no slouch yourself on the national fund-raising circuit, but on this trip to California, you were strictly a member of the supporting cast. You were just another one of the dignitaries at a "Democratic Unity" dinner. The big draw was President Bill Clinton..Frankly, you're a little bit shellshocked. You remember what one of the Republicans said a few months ago: One more scandal, and the president's approval ratings will go over 100.. The thing you have to do is keep your distance from the president. He's tarnished goods. Let Gore carry his water. At least, that's what you thought. Now you don't know. The polls are unbelievable. Nobody you know can really explain it. Even the feminists have come out in favor of Clinton. Even though he lied under oath, it was only in a sexual harassment lawsuit. It makes no sense. Now you've seen the adoring crowds in California. It's like that everywhere, people tell you.."

9/28/98 Judicial Watch Press Release "On Monday, September 28, 1998, Judicial Watch will present its interim report to Congress, detailing substantial and credible evidence of impeachable offenses uncovered in its twenty lawsuits concerning the Clinton-Gore Administration. Specifically, the report deals with Clinton-Gore scandals commonly referred to as Filegate and Chinagate, and other matters, including the misuse of the Internal Revenue Service against perceived adversaries of the Administration. During the last week, officials of the Clinton-Gore Administration and their surrogates have boasted about how the Lewinsky scandal will not lead to the President's impeachment. As a result, they have tried to cut a deal with Congress. In fact, the Lewinsky scandal, however serious, is minor compared with the evidence of likely high crimes and misdemeanors which Judicial Watch has found in Filegate, Chinagate and related Clinton- Gore scandals. "After reading Judicial Watch's 145-page report, which is supported with over 2,000 pages of hard evidence, no longer will Clinton-Gore operatives be able to claim that the scandals only involve sex," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman."

9/28/98 Conclusion from Judicial Watch report to Judiciary Committee "In the last four years, Judicial Watch has uncovered substantial and credible evidence that warrants an impeachment inquiry concerning the activities of President Clinton and his agents. The serious breaches of personal privacy rights, witness intimidation, national security, and bribery, graft and obstruction of justice perpetrated by the Administration against the American people, cannot be addressed and rectified through censure, or even impeachment, however. To prevent this from ever happening again, Congress should not only vote articles of impeachment, and convict the President, it must require that criminal prosecutions follow any such removal from office. While Judicial Watch's cases and investigations are continuing, so too must the inquiries undertaken by, and in progress before, Congress. Now is the time for all concerned Senators and Representatives to put partisan politics aside, and move aggressively and seriously to clean up the rampant corruption which is destroying the very fabric of our democratic government. "

AP 9/28/98 Jim Abrams "Senior Judiciary Committee lawyers will visit Kenneth Starr's offices this week to review boxes of evidence the independent counsel has not forwarded to Congress, the panel's chairman said today. In addition to the evidence that Starr submitted earlier this month, he has 20 boxes of material gathered as part of his investigation of President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky and alleged efforts to cover it up. Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said the bipartisan group of investigators will attempt ``to determine if there are any other documents ... relevant to the Lewinsky matter.'' ``I can't really predict what we'll do until we see what it is,'' Hyde told reporters.."

Wall Street Journal 9/28/98 C. Boyden Gray "It is easy to sense a degree of hopelessness descending upon the Capitol. Few in Congress have the appetite for months of impeachment debate, in part because removal is such a traumatic remedy. Yet despite the current talk of "compromise," it is difficult for many on Capital Hill to envision a workable, morally defensible alternative to the debilitating process of impeachment. The obstacles presented by most alternatives are twofold. First, as a legal matter, is the potential criminal exposure President Clinton faces for perjury and perhaps also for obstruction of justice. Accordingly, Mr. Clinton is unlikely to accept any deal without Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's advance agreement not to prosecute and without the promise of a presidential pardon or congressional immunity or amnesty. For this kind of protection to be possible, bipartisan congressional support would be essential--though difficult--to achieve. Second, is the bipartisan unease about giving the president a free pass for his conduct. Even if Mr. Starr might not be able to secure a conviction for perjury or obstruction, lawmakers are understandably reluctant to condone a seven-month spree of White House-assisted lying about workplace sexual encounters with a young subordinate. Presidential supporters argue that lying about private consensual sex is not an impeachable offense because everyone does it. But surely workplace sex-- especially when the White House is the workplace--doesn't constitute "private" conduct. The primacy of the rule of law is unsustainable the moment the definition of right and wrong is up for political grabs.."

AP 9/28/98 David Espo "A formal House impeachment investigation would not be limited to the independent counsel's evidence, Rep. Henry Hyde, the Republican overseeing the review, said Monday. Hyde strongly signaled he would vote next week in favor of opening such an inquiry. ``We're not restricted,'' Hyde declared at a news conference. ``We're the House Judiciary Committee, and we're trying to decide whether or not we should have an inquiry into whether there should be an impeachment.'' The committee will vote next week, a step that would lead to hearings and an open-ended, independent investigation by Congress into allegations of impeachable offenses by President Clinton.."

Freeper report of Ron Smith Show WBAL 9/28/98 "Ann Coulter was a telephone guest on the Ron Smith show today during his first hour (3-4pm). She was delightful to listen to; no doubt in her mind about grounds for impeachment in the Lewinsky case alone, never mind all the other evidence we are hoping will arrive from Starr and Klayman. However, Ms. Coulter said she thinks we are being set up again by all the predictions for a large Republican victory in November. As she wisely points out, if the Republicans do not register large gains, the Dems will say "See the Republicans failed to win a lot of seats; this shows the American people are against the impeachment process."."

9/29/98 LA Times Richard Serrano Marc Lacey "A week before the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the matter, Chairman Henry Hyde for the first time announced Monday that he believes there is evidence to justify a formal investigation into the impeachment of President Clinton for committing perjury and attempting to hide his involvement with Monica Lewinsky. The Illinois Republican, who until now had been very careful not to tip his hand, revealed that he supports an impeachment inquiry even if all of the panel's 16 Democrats vote against it next week. ``I should think there is enough to warrant an inquiry,'' he said. Hyde also added, in a rather fdisparaging contrast, that a vote against moving forward could be seen as political cowardice."

Washington Post 9/29/98 Dan Balz "Thrown on the defensive for the first time since President Clinton acknowledged in August that he had misled the nation about his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky, congressional Republicans sought Monday to refocus their political and public relations strategy for handling a likely inquiry that could lead to the president's impeachment. After a week in which the White House and congressional Democrats appeared to regain their footing, Republicans are second-guessing not only the decision to release the videotape of Clinton's grand jury testimony, but the pre-release suggestions by some of their colleagues who suggested it would be devastating to the president."

ABC "This Week" Transcription 9/27/98 ".SAM DONALDSON: Mr. Campbell, you're talking about the Starr report. There is intriguing part of that which talks about a woman, identified as Jane Doe number five, who apparently gave you, Paula Jones' lawyers, a deposition last January in which she denied in -- rather an affidavit, denied in her affidavit that there had been any sexual advance by Mr. Clinton way back in the late '70s. The Starr report says, in so many words, that she has now recanted that denial, that that affidavit that she gave you was false according to her. What can you tell us about this? DONOVAN CAMPBELL: Well, what we can tell you is, is that this is apparently one more example of a false and perjurious affidavit in testimony apparently sponsored by Mr. Clinton and foisted upon the federal court system. We intend to take action on that basis. We already have public pleadings filed to take the position that that affidavit and that testimony was false and we was intentionally coerced by Mr. Clinton or those in his camp. Now we have the Starr report in its appendix which confirmed that that affidavit was false and perjurious. And we're just wondering how much perjury and false evidence can the court system withstand before something is done.."

Court TV Freeper Report Prime Time Justice 9/28/98 "On Court TV's Prime Time Justice, Susan Carpenter McMillan said that the $1 million dollar settlement is off the table."

Drudge exclusive Tape #30 9/28/98 "The American public will soon hear Monica Lewinsky telling Linda Tripp how Vernon Jordan and President Clinton directly advised her to lie under oath! Lewinsky's stunning claims are said to be found on Audio Tape #30 in Starr's impeachment referral, according to congressional sources. Tape #30 is a face-to-face conversation between Ms. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky, recorded under FBI auspices. The tape was made on January 13 at the RITZ-CARLTON in Virginia after Tripp was wired with a listening device attached to her inner-thigh. A female FBI agent put the wire on Tripp -- and took the wire off after the session, it has been learned. During the conversation, Tripp asked Lewinsky specific questions about the president's direct involvement in a cover-up. "I told her a whole bunch of lies that day," Lewinsky later testified to the grand jury. "I think I told her that -- you know, at various times the president and Mr. Jordan had told me to lie. That wasn't true." Tape #30 is being described by those who have heard it as one of the most damning pieces of evidence in the impeachment referral. "The tape gave me goosebumps," one investigator tells the DRUDGE REPORT. It is that tape that will likely be played in heavy rotation during any impeachment trial.."

Email Jonah Goldberg 9/28/98 Freeper report "This concerns a case that began back in 1991 when a psychiatrist had sexual relations with a patient who later sued. In 1992, she was sued by the patient and at a 1995 hearing, she lied to a judge. She was found guilty of obstruction of justice in April 1998 and was to be sentenced in Jul 1998. The point of all this, of course, is that it is a concrete, recent example of someone being charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced for lying in a federal case."

ABC "This Week" Transcription 9/27/98 ".SAM DONALDSON: Mr. Campbell, you're talking about the Starr report. There is intriguing part of that which talks about a woman, identified as Jane Doe number five, who apparently gave you, Paula Jones' lawyers, a deposition last January in which she denied in -- rather an affidavit, denied in her affidavit that there had been any sexual advance by Mr. Clinton way back in the late '70s. The Starr report says, in so many words, that she has now recanted that denial, that that affidavit that she gave you was false according to her. What can you tell us about this? DONOVAN CAMPBELL: Well, what we can tell you is, is that this is apparently one more example of a false and perjurious affidavit in testimony apparently sponsored by Mr. Clinton and foisted upon the federal court system. We intend to take action on that basis. We already have public pleadings filed to take the position that that affidavit and that testimony was false and we was intentionally coerced by Mr. Clinton or those in his camp. Now we have the Starr report in its appendix which confirmed that that affidavit was false and perjurious. And we're just wondering how much perjury and false evidence can the court system withstand before something is done.."

Court TV Freeper Report Prime Time Justice 9/28/98 "On Court TV's Prime Time Justice, Susan Carpenter McMillan said that the $1 million dollar settlement is off the table."

Drudge exclusive Tape #30 9/28/98 "The American public will soon hear Monica Lewinsky telling Linda Tripp how Vernon Jordan and President Clinton directly advised her to lie under oath! Lewinsky's stunning claims are said to be found on Audio Tape #30 in Starr's impeachment referral, according to congressional sources. Tape #30 is a face-to-face conversation between Ms. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky, recorded under FBI auspices. The tape was made on January 13 at the RITZ-CARLTON in Virginia after Tripp was wired with a listening device attached to her inner-thigh. A female FBI agent put the wire on Tripp -- and took the wire off after the session, it has been learned. During the conversation, Tripp asked Lewinsky specific questions about the president's direct involvement in a cover-up. "I told her a whole bunch of lies that day," Lewinsky later testified to the grand jury. "I think I told her that -- you know, at various times the president and Mr. Jordan had told me to lie. That wasn't true." Tape #30 is being described by those who have heard it as one of the most damning pieces of evidence in the impeachment referral. "The tape gave me goosebumps," one investigator tells the DRUDGE REPORT. It is that tape that will likely be played in heavy rotation during any impeachment trial.."

Email Jonah Goldberg 9/28/98 Freeper report "This concerns a case that began back in 1991 when a psychiatrist had sexual relations with a patient who later sued. In 1992, she was sued by the patient and at a 1995 hearing, she lied to a judge. She was found guilty of obstruction of justice in April 1998 and was to be sentenced in Jul 1998. The point of all this, of course, is that it is a concrete, recent example of someone being charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced for lying in a federal case."

NY Post 9/29/98 Dick Morris "ANY trial lawyer will tell you that picking the right jury is a huge part of winning the case. When that jury is the United States Senate and the defendant is a president of the United States facing potential impeachment, the partisan composition of the jury is absolutely crucial. That's why Hillary Clinton has hit the campaign trial with such gusto on behalf of the candidates of her party..Hillary has her eye on another possible jury also - her own. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr could go either way - indict Hillary or not. He probably has enough to pull the grand jury's trigger if he wants to, using the evidence he has gathered in his probe of the Castle Grande land deal. Hillary, you will recall, was the lawyer for Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association when it sought to evade the federal ceiling on S&L's real-estate holdings. Its trick: a phony sale of a parcel of property to Webb Hubbell's father-in-law. After the feds had looked away, Hubbell transferred the parcel to Madison. Federal regulators concluded that the transfer was a deliberate attempt to deceive them. And the Rose Law Firm billing records for the transaction mysteriously disappeared, then just as mysteriously re-appeared in the White House - with Hillary's fingerprints on the key page. If Hillary is found to have been a principal in the deal, she could be indicted. If she was just a lawyer, then the cup will likely pass from her lips..Privately, the Clintons always saw (Rev. Jesse) Jackson as a pain in the neck at best and a threat at worst. Now he's their new best friend. In any event, Bill Clinton is home free on the Lewinsky scandal. Voters simultaneously believe four things: He's doing a good job; he's guilty as hell of perjury and all the rest; he has a despicable character, and he should not be removed from office. While he's not going to win any more elections, he's survived Monica.."

Boston Herald 9/29/98 Margery Eagan ".Now Patricia Ireland and the National Organization for Women say only this president's politics matter. They're willing to overlook how, through Monica, he's managed to resurrect the virgin/whore dichotomy, the sexual double standard...Organized feminism is just so picky about the type of women it supports. Flashy Paula Jones, with her big hair and flourescent fingernails, never made the cut, either. But since she claimed to have recoiled at Clinton's advances, she won support from the religious right. Monica, a thong underwear flasher, had no chance with them.."

NY Post 9/29/98 Ray Kerrison "HILLARY Rodham Clinton, the co-president, is back with a bounce, jumping to the head of the pack again to help save her husband's neck. She did it in the Gennifer Flowers affair, through the Paula Jones unpleasantness and now she's doing it in the Monica Lewinsky mess.After weeks of bitter solitude, when she was forced to endure the appalling indignity of having her husband's lurid sexual escapades made public, Hillary has burst into the limelight with a five-state, fund- raising tour. She's suddenly high-profile, hip, bright, smiling, waving, ducking and weaving. It proves one thing: when it comes to brass, Hillary is as shameless as Bill. It is one thing for her to stand by her man. It is something else to go about the country, hailing him as some kind of national savior. That's sick."

Conservative News Service 9/29/98 Brent Baker "Nickelodeon managed to squeeze plenty of Clinton defending and liberal preaching into its half-hour "Nick News Special Edition: The Clinton Crisis" aired at 9pm ET Monday night..Boy Kid: "Perjury is when you lie under oath." Girl Kid: "Bill Clinton did do perjury.". Ellerbee wondered if it's hard to trust someone after they've lied. One kid demanded: "If he can lie, why can't we?" And another asserted that Clinton's a role model to kids so he should not lie. All this condemnation of Clinton was too much for Weingarten, who tried to dissuade the youths of their moral certainty of how lying is wrong by basically saying it's okay if it's in your "zone of privacy." Weingarten insisted: "I think one thing we can't lose sight of is that one of the principle things about this country that's special, is that we are everybody, including the President, has the right to privacy. I think the question here is whether or not anything Bill Clinton did within the zone of privacy affected his ability to lead this country.".."

Washington Times 9/29/98 Mary Akers "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde said yesterday his panel has completed its review of the tens of thousands of pages of evidence against President Clinton and likely will vote next week to hold formal impeachment proceedings. "I should think there is enough to warrant an inquiry, but I've given up predicting how people vote around here," the Illinois Republican.The rest of the Starr material that the Judiciary Committee has approved for publication will be released Thursday. However, the vast majority of the evidence -- 80 percent to 90 percent -- will remain secret. Of the roughly 60,000 pages of documents that the panel reviewed last week, only 3,000 to 5,000 pages will be made public. The rest was deemed either too sexually explicit or unrelated to whether Mr. Clinton committed perjury when he lied about his affair with Miss Lewinsky and whether he otherwise obstructed justice.."

Washington Times 9/29/98 ".Consider the case of United States vs. Charles Sagg, Jr. Just last year, Sagg was facing charges for molesting his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The man had gone into his stepdaughter's room in the middle of the night; the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals describes what happened there: Sagg "took the sleeping child's hand, placed it around his penis . . . . The sleeping child remained asleep." Sagg did not contest this recounting of the facts; instead, he argued that he hadn't had any sexual contact with the girl, because the particular act in which he engaged did not fit the specific definition of "sexual contact" found in the criminal code. The definition of "sexual contact" at issue is in 18 U.S.C. section 2246(3), which states that contact occurs when the defendant engages in "the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade, or arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person." Note that this definition is nearly identical to that used in the Paula Jones deposition, which stipulates that sex occurs when the defendant "knowingly engages in or causes contact (either directly or through the clothing) with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person." Sagg tried to keep from going to jail by trying what might now be termed the Clinton Gambit. He claimed that he had not violated the statute because he had not touched any of the sexual parts of his stepdaughter's body. He had not touched her genitalia, you see; he had only touched her hand. As to the issue of "causing" contact with the genitalia of any person (that is, having caused the contact with his genitalia), Sagg argued that there was no "intentional touching" because the girl was asleep and thus could have no "intent." In other words, since Sagg was not doing the touching of any prohibited area (it was the sleeping stepdaughter whose hand was touching genitalia) he maintained that his conduct "though repulsive, was not prohibited by the statute." Prosecutors, as one might imagine, were unimpressed with this bit of sophistry. They responded that "the 'intentional' touching required by the statute referred to the defendant's mental state." That is, regardless of whose genitalia are touched, if the defendant intends that there is contact with genitalia and there is such contact, it is covered under the statute's definition of "sexual contact." The Clinton Gambit was too much for the Ninth Circuit -- a court not known for being unfriendly to novel, defendant-friendly interpretations of the law. The judges ruled with the government that the statute's definition of "sexual contact" did indeed cover the activity Sagg engaged in. The court cited the legislative record of the House of Representatives, which specifically states that touching is "intentional" if it is "the defendant's conscious objective." Sagg pleaded guilty to one count of Abusive Sexual Contact.."

Washington Post John Harris 9/29/98 "A loose coalition of unions and liberal activists is planning to raise several million dollars to be spent on television ads next month supporting President Clinton and accusing Republicans of pursuing personal scandal at the expense of other issues, according to sources familiar with the plans.."

Capitol Hill Blue 9/29/98 "The gloves are off and President Bill Clinton's attack dogs are out for blood. But many cash-started Democrats aren't happy about it. Clinton's supporters hope to raise up to $5 million for an election-season TV ad campaign that will attack Republicans' handling of impeachment proceedings. Although the White House is expected to claim they have nothing to do with the campaign, the effort fits a broad Clinton strategy to portray the GOP-led Congress as partisan and obsessed with the Monica Lewinsky investigation and Clinton confidant James Carville admits working with the group. The drive is raising eyebrows among Democratic operatives who are struggling to raise money for their candidates in Nov. 3 elections. These Democrats fear that party donors will be wrung dry for a campaign they suspect is designed to save the president, not the party's candidates.."

CAS List Carl Limbacher 9/29/98 "On Monday's night's Hannity & Colmes Fox News show, former Clinton advisor Dick Morris was asked about "Jane Doe #5", the woman in Ken Starr's report who told prosecutors that she gave a false affadavit to Paula Jones' lawyers last January. In that affadavit, she denied that Clinton had sexually assaulted her in the late 1970's. "Jane Doe #5" is known to be Juanita Broaddrick, who had told friends and associates in Arkansas that Bill Clinton brutally raped her in 1978. In the wake of her retracted denial, that allegation now stands. Dick Morris, responding to a question posed by Alan Colmes, said of the Juanita Broaddrick charge: "Rape trials are very problematic. It was date rape if it was anything. He didn't jump out of bushes with a knife. Look at Willie Kennedy Smith. The difficulty in proving that stuff is enormous - especially after 10 years." Now that the man responsible for Clinton's re-election has broached the subject of Juanita Broaddrick's alleged rape by Clinton - without denying the substance of the charge and even speculating on possible prosecution - perhaps the mainstream press will now feel compelled to cover the story.

WorldNetDaily 9/29/98 Nancy Phillips ".. Specifically, Judicial Watch sees "a pattern of conduct by this president and his agents that indicates he has run, in effect, a criminal enterprise from the White House to obtain and maintain hold on the Office of the President of the United States. Indeed, he is likely in violation of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)..This pervasive corruption, flowing from the Oval Office, is the common thread throughout the various "high crimes and misdemeanors" outlined in this interim report." ..The report was accepted yesterday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, who said he would read it and consider the evidence in his impeachment inquiry. It may only be a small consolation to Congress that none of the evidence in this report is even remotely connected to Monica Lewinsky or back-alley sex in the Oval Office. No, the crimes committed in the cover-up of the Lewinsky affair, Judicial Watch asserts, only demonstrate Clinton's capacity to commit "high crimes and misdemeanors." The "high crimes and misdemeanors" alleged in this report are of the first magnitude -- felonies that cut through the heart of the presidential oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" and to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." .

9/29/98 Daivd Horowitz SALON "Salon's decision to expose Henry Hyde has put the nation's political crisis in a whole new light for me. Outside of Henry Hyde himself, and those close enough to be considered family, I doubt that anyone felt the impact of Salon's decision to disclose his 30-year-old affair with a married woman as viscerally as I did. I know Henry Hyde and, like many others on both sides of the political aisle, admire him as one of the most gracious men and thoughtful politicians in Washington. Like them, I think of Hyde as a leader of exceptional integrity (this regretted episode from his past notwithstanding) and, like them, I looked to him to provide the kind of bipartisan statesmanship that might have helped to guide the nation out of the morass in which it finds itself. I felt the article was unfair and mean-spirited, a gratuitous invasion of privacy, inflicting pain on a man who didn't deserve it and causing damage to the already tattered fabric of the nation's political life. Even more problematic, as a columnist for Salon, I was personally implicated by the article (even though, as a contract writer, I was not involved in any of the decisions that led to its publication). If I had any thought that I could avoid involvement, I had only to look at my mail from political supporters urging me to leave Salon and to dissociate myself from its callous act. To compound my dilemma, the author of the offending piece -- and one of the authors of the editorial defending its publication -- was a man I have known for 20 years and consider a friend, despite our political differences. The David Talbot I know is not a thoughtless and unscrupulous tool of the Clinton attack squad, as partisans of the right have suggested. On the contrary, David Talbot is a generous human being and a man of exceptional integrity. Indeed, it is these very virtues that created the dilemma confronting me, since it was David who was responsible for my opportunity at Salon. ."

Washington News Blulletin's Frontrunner 9/29/98 "..The NYT (9/29, A1, Mitchell) reported "some congressional Democrats expressed concern that Clinton allies were becoming too strident and treating the impeachment process like another campaign." Said Democratic Judiciary member Barney Frank: "I think Carville overdoes it. It would be wrong for any Democrat to forget that the President's mistakes are part of the problem." . Gephardt Complains About Carville's Demeanor. The W. Post (9/29, A1, Harris) reported House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt "is...irked at White House officials for what he believes was their approval of a bellicose public defense of Clinton Sunday by strategist James Carville." Aides to Gephardt " complained to the White House," about Carville's Sunday performance, and Gephardt "believes that Carville's partisanship is at odds with the more judicious tone he believes his party should be setting."..Insight (10/19, Maier) reports, "Justice sources tell Insight the independent counsel is looking at charging the First Lady with fraud, theft and perjury in connection with the mysterious discovery of billing records linking her to her work on the Castle Grande project -- a 1989 Arkansas real-estate venture that in the end was a 'sham' project that cost taxpayers an estimated $4 million." Insight quotes a Justice Department source as saying, "He could indict her right now. The only reason Starr brought her back twice to the grand jury is because she didn't tell the truth the first time around." ."

USA Journal 9/29/98 Jon Dougherty "Finally, a serious legal evaluation of the Clinton administration has been completed and released. Not surprisingly it didn't come from some bumbling and partisan congressional committee, it didn't come from Kenneth Starr, and it didn't come from some tabloid news journal. Instead, Americans can and should congratulate Judicial Watch's executive director Larry Klayman for his organization's single-handed compilation of the most compelling evidence to date against the Clinton administration - evidence which, if taken seriously by Congress, should seal Clinton's fate..But perhaps when more people have read Klayman's report, they will see that these scandals - Filegate, Travelgate, and Chinagate, for example - are much deeper and reach much higher than most people imagine. In that vein, lawmakers - even those appearing in the stolen FBI files commandeered by the White House and chronicled in Klayman's report - may be left with little choice but to impeach. Voters may accept no less and that is the way it ought to be.If most of the electorate, however, sees this report or hears of its contents, it's likely it won't matter to them how their elected representatives react. Americans are going to be furious at Clinton for so blatantly and so regularly abusing their trust and, quite possibly, for putting our very security in danger."

Conservative News Service 9/29/98 Ben Anderson "... But today's report did not come from Independent Counsel Ken Starr, instead it was sent from the independent group, Judicial Watch..Judicial Watch sent copies of the report to the House leadership including Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX). The Judicial Watch report to Congress is not covered under a specific law. Spokesman Dan Michaelis told CNS he knows of no precedent for such a report, but that Judicial Watch felt it was necessary for the Congress and the public to know what it knows. .House Judiciary Committee Spokesperson Michelle Morgan told CNS, Rep. Hyde (R-IL) would reserve any judgement on the Judicial Watch report.."

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 9/29/98 Pat Griffith "Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that has some 20 lawsuits outstanding against the Clinton administration, yesterday presented the House Judiciary Committee with its own "interim report" aimed at prodding lawmakers to go well beyond the Clinton- Lewinsky affair in considering possible impeachment charges against the president..Although many of the charges have been aired at congressional hearings without finding evidence of presidential wrong-doing, Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch chairman and general counsel, said his assorted investigations have gone further to uncover what the report called "crimes and other offenses" by Clinton "warranting his impeachment and removal from elected office." The report urged the House to consider the "additional evidence" he has developed, much of it stemming from the improper collection of some 900 FBI files of former Republican officials and lower-level employees early in the Clinton presidency and numerous charges related to campaign fund-raising in 1996. It claimed to show that Clinton "condoned, directed and effected" lawbreaking with help from first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, the late Commerce Department Secretary Ron Brown, Attorney General Janet Reno and top White House aides... "

Washington Times Jerry Seper 9/28-10/4 "President Clinton would still face indictment in the Monica Lewinsky grand jury investigation even if Congress backs away from impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee, lawyers and others close to Kenneth W. Starr's ongoing grand jury investigation said yesterday. The independent counsel's office has targeted Mr. Clinton on as many as 15 felony counts of perjury, obstruction of justice and witness tampering in an attempt to cover up a sexual relationship with Miss Lewinsky, a former White House intern. "An indictment of the president has never been ruled out," said one source, a lawyer familiar with both the Starr inquiry and efforts by congressional investigators to uncover the facts of the Clinton-Lewinsky relationship.."

Washington Weekly 9/28/98 "Privacy Act Violations During the taped grand jury "appearance" of President Clinton, aired on TV last Monday, he was asked why he had not produced letters written to him by Kathleen Willey under the subpoena he had received from lawyers for Paula Jones. The letters, Clinton explained, had been in official White House files and not in his private files which he considered covered by the Jones subpoena. By his testimony, Clinton may have avoided another obstruction of justice charge, but he admitted, unwittingly, to a criminal violation of the Privacy Act. The letters were released, with his knowledge, to friendly reporters in an attempt to smear Willey as a witness in the Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit. The Privacy Act prohibits release of materials from government files on a subject without his or her permission. This violation of the Privacy Act fits a pattern currently under investigation by Judicial Watch that includes the release of Linda Tripp's employment forms and the illegal requisition of FBI files on Republicans. "It is clear that there is a pattern of Privacy Act violations in the White House that goes beyond FBI files. This is why it is so ironic that the President is so concerned about his own privacy, but not the privacy of American citizens," says Larry Klayman."

AP David Espo 9/29/98 "House Republicans are weighing a plan to give the Judiciary Committee virtually the same open-ended authority for President Clinton that the panel had during its impeachment investigation of Richard Nixon a quarter-century ago, GOP sources said Tuesday. The disclosure came as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott cautioned that recent sharp Democratic criticism of GOP handling of the impeachment review ``undercuts everything'' - including the possibility of an eventual plea-bargain that would punish the president but fall short of impeachment..But several officials said the approach used in 1974 is being viewed as a model. They added that strong consideration was being given to using the same text that was passed during Watergate, replacing the name ``Richard M. Nixon,'' with ``William J. Clinton.'' The previous panel received authority to ``investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach'' the president. Presenting such a proposal for consideration would enable Republicans to expand their inquiry well beyond Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's evidence concerning Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. It would open the door, for example, into other areas such as alleged fund-raising violations during the president's 1996 re-election campaign. At the same time, it would pose a dilemma to Democrats who are arguing the inquiry should be limited to Starr's evidence, yet are insisting the House follow a set of standards that guided the committee in 1974 under the chairmanship of Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J. The idea of an expanded investigation has hovered over the committee since Starr submitted a report that dealt only with his Lewinsky inquiry. Several committee members are eager to know whether Starr's far-flung investigation into Whitewater, a controversy over FBI files and other issues might include additional evidence of impeachable offenses.."

9/29/98 AP Laurie Kellman "``Bad conduct'' that brings the presidency into disrepute is enough for impeachment, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said today. But he refused to say whether President Clinton's affair with a former intern meets that standard. ``I don't want to pass judgment on that or answer that question,'' Lott replied, saying the decision would depend on additional facts. But, he allowed, ``It may be.'' The Senate Republican leader said that perjury and obstruction of justice -- two of the principal allegations against Clinton by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr -- would be grounds for impeachment. ``I think bad conduct is enough, frankly, for impeachment,'' said Lott. ``If you have brought disrepute on the office, that is sufficient.''."

AP 9/29/98 "President Clinton's supporters abandoned plans to raise money for an anti- Republican TV ad campaign as a long-running feud between the White House and congressional Democrats spilled into the open Tuesday. White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles met with Democratic congressional leaders late Tuesday, hoping to end a bitter exchange that threatened party unity just five weeks before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. Congressional Democrats suspected that the $3 million to $5 million ad plan was designed to help Clinton survive impeachment proceedings, instead of aiding cash-strapped Democrats running for election.."

NY Times 9/30/98 "The decisions by the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Henry Hyde, to insure greater fairness and openness in the examination of evidence in the Monica Lewinsky affair are sound on the merits. But they have a larger importance as encouraging signs that the debate over President Clinton's future can be kept moving toward some reasonably prompt resolution..This page advocates a negotiated settlement that would allow Mr. Clinton to remain in office in exchange for a censure based on his admission of lying under oath. We believe Mr. Hyde's handling of the Judiciary Committee opens the way for gradual progress in that direction. . But Mr. Clinton's gains in the past week should not induce him, his wife and their surrogates to adopt a war strategy or to count on Mr. Starr's unpopularity as a life preserver. Another wave of documents is coming on Friday. There may be more disclosures down the road. Come Oct. 9, many House Democrats are planning to vote for the full impeachment inquiry. Any White House plan to prolong matters or step up the sniping is self-destructive. Now that they have had a chance to contemplate the seediness of Mr. Clinton's behavior, most Americans do not agree with Senator Trent Lott that just "bad conduct is enough, frankly, for impeachment." But that could change, very quickly."

Weekly Standard Eric Felten 9/28/98 "PRESIDENT CLINTON'S "REBUTTAL" to the Starr report denies there are grounds for impeachment because the report fails to provide unambiguous evidence of perjury. Any members of the House inclined to take the word of David Kendall and Charles Ruff, the lawyers who penned the rebuttal, will want first to consult one of their colleagues, Rep. Alcee Hastings. The Florida Democrat is Congress's resident expert on impeachment, and his expertise is hard-won: Hastings is the only congressman who has himself been impeached... Hastings, then a federal judge, was impeached 426-3 by the House in August 1988 for taking bribes from the bench and committing perjury.What with the Constitution's protection against double jeopardy, Hastings had every reason to believe that his acquittal had ended the matter. It hadn't. Several years later, a panel of federal judges complained to Congress that Hastings had lied at his trial and manufactured phony evidence to exculpate himself. Under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act, the judges asked the House to impeach Hastings. It did, and that's how judge Alcee Hastings ended up before a Senate impeachment committee in the summer of 1989, being tried on the very charges of which a jury had already acquitted him..The Hastings precedent does not bode well for Clinton. Alcee Hastings maintained his innocence at a criminal trial and was acquitted. But because the Senate suspected he had been guilty, it decided his protestations of innocence under oath had to be perjury. Such a standard for proving perjury is one the president cannot possibly survive. Clinton makes much of the fact that his current agonies stem from a civil case -- Fones v. Clinton -- that has been dismissed; but Hastings had a much stronger claim: The underlying criminal case against him had been disposed of when the jury had found him not guilty. Hastings was never caught in a demonstrable lie; Clinton's sworn lies, by contrast, have been extensively catalogued. .. Soon (Walter) Nixon's case was before the Supreme Court -- and it's here that things start to get really ugly for Clinton. The Nixon case gave the justices an opportunity to rule on this fundamental constitutional question.: The justices ruled 7-2 that the Senate's "sole power of trying impeachment" means the courts cannot interfere. Nixon's conviction stood. And so too the impeachment and conviction of Alcee Hastings. That is why, once the Starr report was delivered to Congress, the president's lawyers lost any right to challenge its findings in court. It is Congress, not the courts, that determines the admissibility of evidence for impeachment; it is Congress, not the courts, that determines whether the evidence is strong enough to prove perjury. And no doubt the Office of Independent Counsel had the Hastings and Nixon cases in mind when preparing its report to Congress. No doubt, because the solicitor general who convinced the high court not to meddle in impeachment was none other than Kenneth Starr. "

Weekly Standard 9/28/98 David Frum "..What the Clinton team most wants to go unnoticed are the parallels between the Clinton scandals of the 1990s and the Nixon scandals of the 1970s. But that parallelism is so glaring that Clinton defenders can no longer avoid acknowledging it, if only for the purpose of denying it.What was Watergate about? At bottom, it was an attempt by a president to conceal his wrongdoing by corrupting the institutions of government. And what is the Lewinsky affair about? The very same thing.. In both cases, the president suborned perjury: Nixon from the Watergate burglars, Clinton from Monica Lewinsky. In both cases, the president eventually found himself blackmailed by those he had suborned: James McCord and the Watergate burglars wanted cash; Monica demanded a fancy job in New York (not as somebody's administrative assistant). In both cases, the president tampered with witnesses. Nixon tried to coax John Dean into lying; Clinton coached Betty Currie. Even more striking, in both cases, perjury often manifested itself in the form of too-convenient amnesia. Chapin's defense, like Clinton's today, was that he provided the grand jury with legally accurate answers to ambiguous questions. In the Lewinsky scandal as in Watergate, the president's subordinates illegally leaked private information about perceived enemies. It was for having Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatric records stolen and then disseminated that Charles Colson went to prison; we are still waiting to see what will happen to the Clinton Defense Department officials who leaked to the New Yorker information from Linda Tripp's confidential Pentagon personnel records. Then as now, the president baffled his subordinates by stonewalling when it seemed that a swift confession and apology might still have saved him... Then as now, the president and his men insisted that their troubles had nothing to do with their own actions and were entirely the work of malicious, out-of-control prosecutors...Perhaps the most important political question posed by Watergate was this: For whom do the security forces of the United States work? Are they the president's henchmen, obliged to obey his every command on the theory (as Nixon memorably phrased it) that "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal"? Or do they owe their loyalty to the law and the Constitution? Watergate affirmed that it was the second course that is the correct answer, but President Clinton and his party apparently require a reminder. Perhaps his party needs it even more than he does. Ever since Watergate, the Democrats have basked in unprecedented moral self-regard.The appetites that led Clinton into perjury and obstruction are so ludicrous and so pathetic that it is hard for Americans to see the perjury and obstruction as criminal. But crimes are crimes, whether the person responsible for them is in the end a sinister figure or a sad one."

Chicago Tribune 9/30/98 Laurie Kellman ".Former Clinton adviser Dick Morris testified that presidential allies had mounted a ``secret police operation to go around and intimidate women'' who may have been involved with the president. But in an interview Tuesday, Morris said his testimony was based on no firsthand information and was a supposition based on his reading of affidavits and published accounts. ``I had no personal knowledge of the operation,'' Morris said.."

Chicago Tribune 9/30/98 Laurie Kellman ".Mrs. Tripp's taped telephone conversations with Ms. Lewinsky depict a mentoring relationship that changed once Mrs. Tripp was secretly wearing an FBI recording device. At one point on a recording, Ms. Lewinsky says, ``I wouldn't cross these people for fear of my life.''.

Chicago Tribune 9/30/98 Laurie Kellman ".White House adviser Sidney Blumenthal says he raised a question about Ms. Lewinsky with Hillary Rodham Clinton and was told not to worry, that the president was ``ministering to a troubled young person.''.

Chicago Tribune 9/30/98 Laurie Kellman ".Clinton's personal secretary, Betty Currie, by her third appearance before the grand jury, was taking notes in the grand jury room and was reminded that those notes could be subpoenaed..."

CNN Transcripts 9/29/98 "...BARR: On Monday, or perhaps Tuesday, Greta, what we'll be voting on in the Judiciary Committee is whether or not to recommend to the full House that we begin a formal inquiry of impeachment, which is not articles of impeachment. It simply tees up the issue and requires a vote by the House to authorize the Judiciary Committee, based on the evidence that we have thus far before us, to launch a formal inquiry which then could resul t in articles of impeachment. This was a similar step to that taken against President Nixon early in 1974 that eventually resulted in articles of impeachment being passed against him by the House Judiciary Committee....VAN SUSTEREN: Congressman Barr, is H illary -- will Hillary Rodham Clinton come out a hero?...BARR: She may come out of here with an indictment when all is said and done....How about valiantly having those records mysteriously reappear in the White House with her fingerprints on them? Is tha t valiant?... "

Freeper Jack Thompson 9/30/98 "I have corroboration of the Clinton Secret Police testimony."

Above followed by Freeper OnAMission 9/30/98 ".On May 12, 1994, The Wall Street Journal reported a story that fully corroborates Dick Morris's assertion to the Starr grand jury that Clinton's "Secret Police" were silencing women who had sex with Clinton. It is this: My best friend at Vanderbilt Law, Sam Jones, who is now partner to Bruce Lindsey, told me and others in 1992 that it was his job to "track down women Clinton was reported to have had sex with and do whatever it takes to silence them." Paula Jones's attorneys asked me for my affidavit in this regard, and I am listed as a trial witness in the Jones v. Clinton case. Dick Morris has got this story dead-cold-straight. This is big trouble for the Boy Pervert.."

AP Laurie Kellman 9/30/98 "The senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee today welcomed a Republican proposal to use Watergate-style rules to govern an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton but said he wanted limits on the subjects that will be considered.. The White House said today that Republicans were making an ``utterly ridiculous'' attempt to model the impeachment proceedings after the House investigation of Richard Nixon a quarter-century ago. ``The notion that there is any parallel is laughable,'' presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said. ..The 1974 minority report said the framers of the Constitution ``intended that the president should be removable by the legislative branch only for serious misconduct dangerous to the system of government ... .'' ."

AP 9/30/98 "Many American parents treat the Monica Lewinsky case as a chance to talk with children about morals and values and find it is leading to more family discussions of politics in general, says a poll released Wednesday. But parents polled by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press said almost half of teen-agers are losing respect for politicians because of President Clinton's troubles in the Lewinsky affair..Almost half of parents with younger children, ages 8 to 10, have not discussed the Clinton controversy with them and when such conversations occur, they are initiated by the children 70 percent of the time, the poll said.."

AP 9/30/98 "Paula Jones' lawyers have filed a final brief asking an appeals court to reinstate her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton. Their brief, a reply to arguments from Clinton's attorneys, should arrive by mail today at the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Mrs. Jones' lawyers said..."

PR Newswire 9/30/98 "Just days after Judicial Watch presented its 145 page interim report on Clinton "high crimes and misdemeanors" to the House Judiciary Committee -- detailing widespread violations of law in Chinagate, Filegate, IRS-Gate, and related matters -- Chairman Henry Hyde has announced that the impeachment inquiry will not be limited to "Monicagate." "Judicial Watch takes pride and is heartened that Chairman Hyde and the Republican Party are now listening to it. An impeachment inquiry cannot, as Democrats would like, be just limited to perjury and obstruction of justice over sex. Indeed, a review of the Judicial Watch interim report, which can be found on the Web at http://www.JudicialWatch.org, will show perjury and obstruction in nearly every Clinton scandal. "There is nothing special to the Lewinsky scandal," stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman. "The wholesale bribery and possible treason detailed in Judicial Watch's interim report -- coupled with the egregious violation of the privacy rights of Americans -- cries out for a full impeachment inquiry. Now that Chairman Hyde has acknowledged this will occur, Judicial Watch stands ready to assist in any way it can. In addition, Judicial Watch will continue to aggressively pursue its cases and investigations, so that justice can also be done in the courts," concluded Klayman. "

Fox News AP Deb Riechmann 9/30/98 "In 1974, Hillary Rodham, a 26-year-old lawyer fresh from Yale, researched impeachment and pored over the Constitution to see if there were grounds to force Richard Nixon from office. Today, as first lady, she's defending her husband from the very presidential impeachment procedures she helped to craft. Mrs. Clinton was one of 43 lawyers on the House Judiciary Committee's special impeachment inquiry staff. Boyfriend Bill Clinton, her schoolmate at Yale, turned down a chance to join the team and headed home to Arkansas to run for Congress. One of Mrs. Clinton's first assignments: researching American impeachment cases. There had been only one presidential impeachment - Andrew Johnson in 1868 - so most of her research, outlined in an unsigned chapter of an early staff report, involved the impeachment of judges. In a reflection of the murky, legal questions being explored in Congress today, the report cautioned that past impeachments did not "fit neatly and logically into categories.'' Impeachments fall into three broad areas of conduct, the report concluded: "1) Exceeding the constitutional bounds of the powers of the office ... 2) Behaving in a manner grossly incompatible with the proper function and purpose of the office; and 3) Employing the power of the office for an improper purpose, or for personal gain.'' The report stressed that the House had placed less emphasis on criminal conduct than on instances in which an official "violated his duties or his oath or seriously undermined public confidence in his ability to perform his official functions.'' ."

9/30/98 "People For the American Way today began filming a television commercial aimed at urging Americans to vote on Nov. 3 and urging Congress to move on to address the real issues facing the people. "The American people have been trying to send a message to Washington but some leaders aren't listening," said PFAW President Carole Shields. "Congress needs to tend to the people's business, not the parties' business. We're airing this commercial to make sure that message gets through. The American people want to move on." Shields said PFAW hopes to have the ad on the air by the middle of next week. The ad is being produced by Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns & Associates. .."

Capitol Hill Blue 9/30/98 Ben Anderson "Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman hand delivered his 145 page report on his investigation into impeachable acts by President Clinton to Congress on Monday.. The scandals contained in the report are not limited to official appointees, but also include political operative James Carville and a number of reporters for Washington media establishments... Many Democrats have criticized the Starr investigation as saying it focuses on the president's private life instead of criminal acts. Klayman believes his report will further show the president and members of his staff did indeed break the law.Judicial Watch says it has "uncovered evidence that President Clinton personally participated in this operation by threatening "to destroy," and then defaming one witness, Dolly Kyle Browning, if she dared to tell the truth about their 30-year friendship and sexual relationship." In the "IRS-GATE," section, Judicial Watch outlines the chronology of actions by former IRS Commissioner Margaret Milner Richardson, agent Thomas Cederquist and several unnamed IRS officials who allegedly violated the free speech rights of Clinton's "political adversaries." The report alleges that a political enemy of the Clinton's came too close in its own investigation of the death of former White House Counsel Vince Foster and soon became the target of an IRS audit...In its quest to reveal to the public such activities, Judicial Watch asserts it filed a number of Freedom of Information Act requests only to encounter stonewalling and intimidation by the Clinton Administration. "In addition, Judicial Watch's attempts to uncover the truth were obstructed through perjury, obstruction of justice, intimidation and retaliation that has marred other recent investigation of Clinton scandals, including the Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky matters Judicial Watch completes its report with an aspect of the Clintons which has received little, if any, public attention. Outlining allegations in the formation of The Presidential Legal Expense Trust, Judicial Watch alleges the trust was "an illegal scheme, unlawfully soliciting and/or receiving something of value for the President, which violated the anti- bribery laws of the United States."."

Freeper summary of MSNBC 9/30/98 states that "John Gibson, Newschat on MSNBC, just announced that the WH has asked all (Democrats) to sign a petition stating they will NOT vote for iimpeachment."

Rachel Von Dongen 9/30/98 "President Clinton has consistently proved to be a financial boon for Democratic Congressional candidates, but some Republicans are now calling on their rivals to reject money Clinton helps bring in, arguing that they could soon be sitting in judgment of the fundraiser-in-chief.."Since when does a likely defendant give money to jurors? It is ridiculous to even ask the question," Ashcroft said. "The answer is never." "Obviously, the President and first lady have the opportunity to gain more than the mere political goodwill of people who will vote on impeachment," the Senator added. But Democrats call the conflict of interest argument nothing short of ridiculous..In another bizarre twist on the presidential scandal, Bill Cook, a Democratic college professor who is the underdog for retiring Rep. Bill Paxon's (R-N.Y.) seat, is returning a $500 campaign donation he received from the President's attorney, David Kendall, and at the same time is apparently endorsing the GOP argument. Kendall and Cook went to college together, but Cook issued a release last week saying he thinks it would be wrong to take Kendall's money. "I must return his contribution to my campaign because if I am elected to Congress, I may have to vote on the articles of impeachment against President Clinton," Cook wrote.."

9/30/98 AP GOP Impeachment Resolution ".Section 2. (a) For the purpose of making such investigation, the committee is authorized to require: (1) by subpoena or otherwise -- (A) the attendance and testimony of any person (including at a taking of a deposition by counsel for the committee); and (B) the production of such things; and (2) by interrogatory, the furnishing of such information; as it deems necessary to such investigation. Section 2. (b) Such authority of the committee may be exercised: (1) by the chairman and the ranking minority member acting jointly, or, if either declines to act, by the other acting alone, except that in the event either so declines, either shall have the right to refer to the committee for decision the question whether such authority shall be so exercised and the committee shall be convened promptly to render that decision; or (2) by the committee acting as a whole or by subcommittee.."

AP 9/30/98 Pete Yost "House Republicans unveiled broad, Watergate-style plans for impeachment proceedings against President Clinton on Wednesday, pushing aside Democratic demands to limit the scope of the investigation.. It also would afford Clinton's lawyers the right to cross-examine witnesses, attend all meetings and object to evidence. The proposed resolution makes no effort to limit the scope of the inquiry to the Monica Lewinsky affair -- a demand Democrats renewed on Wednesday. The committee's top Democrat, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, decried any open-ended inquiry as ``preposterous.''.The resolution's language, ``in pertinent part, follows the Watergate resolution word for word,'' Hyde, R-Ill., wrote. ``Specifically, the resolved clause and the subpoena and deposition language are exactly the same.'' ."

AP 9/30/98 "Rights President Clinton would have in a House impeachment inquiry as laid out by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: --The president and his counsel shall be invited to attend all executive session and open committee hearings. --The president's counsel may cross- examine witnesses. --The president's counsel may make objections regarding the pertinency of evidence. --The president's counsel shall be invited to suggest that the committee receive additional evidence. --The president or the president's counsel shall be invited to respond to the evidence adduced by the committee."

Larry Klayman on MSNBC 9/30/98 Notes from Freeper "Elizabeth Ward Gracen "physically scared" Willey jogging incident brought up. Browning threats.. Gerry Spence talking about people connected to kennedy who were killed. Says every little cooincidence is supposed to be Clinton's fault Host says "we are not making this up-this is secret police and real witness comments".

PBS: The News Hour 9/30/98 Freeper report Orlando Patterson "On tonight's NewsHour, a Professor from Harvard University explained why Bill Clinton (whom he described as being an African American at heart) had every right to lie under oath about sex..According to Prof. Patterson, Clinton's 'right' to privacy "trumps" his obligation to tell the truth under oath!."

CNN 9/30/98 AllPolitics "As the House Judiciary Committee prepares to release thousands of additional pages of material about the sex-and-perjury investigation of President Bill Clinton, Democrats on the panel are working on an alternative to Republican plans for impeachment hearings..Some lawmakers have suggested a "censure-plus" could include a fine or a requirement that Clinton pay the costs of Independent Counsel Ken Starr's inquiry since January. Referring to poll numbers that show a majority of Americans do not want Clinton impeached, Conyers said, "Now is there anyone in the land that doesn't know that the American people want us to move on, that they've had enough? And so we're trying to find a proportional resolution to this problem that will comport to what I think is the mood of the nation and will still do justice to the legislative process that deals with the question before us." In addition to their own censure motion, Democratic sources tell CNN the Democrats want to set a time limit on the investigation and a limit on the subjects the committee will investigate.."

9/39/98 CNN AllPolitics ".With spin important to the future of any possible impeachment inquiry, Clinton Administration officials are eager to keep Democrats on the side of the president. Top White House aides are working quickly to try to quiet the latest wave of anger from congressional Democrats by assuring them that plans have been dropped to ask Clinton allies to fund a multi-million dollar ad campaign designed to boost the president's standing.."

Capitol Hill Blue 10/6/98 Doug Thompson "David Schippers, the lead counsel for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, got personal when he closed out his presentation on the need for Bill Clinton's impeachment Monday.``And now, I would like, if I may, to make a brief personal statement," Shippers said. "I am speaking no longer as a chief investigative counsel, but rather as a citizen of the United States who happens to be a father and a grandfather. To paraphrase St. Thomas More in Robert Bolt's excellent play, A Man for All Seasons, the laws of this country are the great barriers that protect the citizens from the winds of evil and tyranny. If we permit one of those laws to fall, who will be able to stand in the winds that follow? ``Members of the committee, you're not being watched only by the individuals in this room or even by the immense television audience throughout the world," he added. "Fifteen generations of Americans, our fellow Americans, many of whom are reposing in military cemeteries throughout the world, are looking down on and judging what you do today."..What makes Schippers' remarks all the more extraordinary is the fact that he is not now, nor has he ever been, part of the great "right-wing" conspiracy that Clinton and his left wingnuts claim are trying to bring him down. Schippers is, in fact, a lifelong Democrat who admits voting for Clinton in both 1992 and 1996. Yet his disgust over the slime of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was obvious, and justified, during his closing remarks Perhaps, as the Democratic loyalists claim, Bill Clinton should not be impeached because he allowed a young White House intern to service his perverted sexual desires. And perhaps he shouldn't be impeached because he cheated on his wife and tried to hide it. But he should be impeached because the men and women who died defending this country deserve better than a lying, cowardly draft dodger named William Jefferson Clinton."

Freeper report from Fox News 10/6/98 ".As best as I could gather Conyers was saying that since the president asked for forgiveness and Conyers forgave him ,-then the president should forgive the Iraqi people and ease the sanctions against Iraq. I don't get the logic. He also said he was prepared to go to the first Lady for it "We go to her for everything else".."

Wall Street Journal 10/6/98 John Fund " THE CLINTON SCANDAL IS ABOUT MORE THAN the stale "it's about sex" vs. "it's about perjury" debate. National-security experts say there's another element: sexual behavior by the commander-in-chief so reckless as to subject him to the risk of international blackmail. It's an open question if the President-who, unlike other officials, doesn't get an FBI background check-could get a security clearance in his own administration. From agreeing to talk with the insecure Monica Lewinsky on short notice to extensive job searches, President Clinton did a great deal to keep her quiet, even though he told the grand jury that he fully expected her to share secrets with others. She ended up discussing the matter with eleven people. One of those was Linda Tripp, who recorded their talks. But what if Ms. Tripp had taken those tapes to Chinese or Iranian diplomats instead of Kenneth Starr? In fact, Mr. Clinton realized the security risk their relationship represented. The Starr report reveals that Mr. Clinton told Ms. Lewinsky that "he suspected that a foreign embassy was tapping his telephones, and he proposed cover stories" if they were ever questioned about their relationship. The President and Ms. Lewinsky had "phone sex" 10 to 15 times, so Mr. Clinton told Ms. Lewinsky that, if asked, she should say "they knew their calls were being monitored all along, and the phone sex was just a put-on." This laughable "explanation" wouldn't have helped much if a hostile regime had intercepted the explicit calls."

Chicago Sun-Times 10/6/98 Michael Sneed "Sneed hears rumbles that special prosecutor Ken Starr has his eye on indicting at least four current and former White House staffers..Harold Ickes, Sidney Blumenthal, Bernie Nussbaum and Bruce Lindsay. perjury and obstruction of justice charges stemming from the Paula Jones case ... and witness tampering.."

Detroit News 10/5/98 Tony Snow "By the time Congress completes its inquiry into Bill Clinton's impeachability, you're likely to hear a lot about Billy Ray Dale. Dale ran the White House Travel Office for eight years - until May 20, 1993. On that fateful day, he and his staff were herded into a room, fired and given an hour to clear out. Dale says the White House "was a family" when he arrived in 1961. (He was once even Caroline Kennedy's Santa.) More than 31 years later, he was stuffed in a seatless van and hauled away. Dale didn't know it, but he was about to become a poster boy for the abuse of presidential power. Hours after the putsch, then-White House lawyer William Kennedy III demanded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mount a criminal inquiry, claiming he was acting on "the highest authority" . The nightmare lasted 30 months - and a jury threw out the case in just 20 minutes Richard Nixon: He asked the IRS to go after political enemies. The agency refused and audited him instead. Clinton: The IRS not only went after Dale. It also audited Paula Jones and more than a dozen prominent conservative organizations. Nixon: He asked the FBI to snoop on some of his enemies. It refused. Clinton: The FBI went after Dale - and turned his file over to the White House months after Dale's ouster.."

Manchester Union Leader 10/6/98 Linda Bowles "FOR PERSPECTIVE, LET'S take a moment to listen to the brief comments of two men who have been quiet about the Bill Clinton follies -- until now. Former President Jimmy Carter, speaking to students at Emory University, said, "As one of the very few leaders who have served in the White House, I have deplored and been deeply embarrassed by what has occurred there." He added, "My own opinion is that the President has not been truthful in the deposition given in the Paula Jones case or in the interrogation by the grand jury." Former President George Bush, in a televised interview on NBC, said, "This office is strong. It's resilient." Then, with pure anguish registered on his face and deep sadness in his voice, he slowly added, "But I'm afraid, for now, it's been diminished." The truth is unavoidable. The essential fact we must accept and deal with is that Bill Clinton has dishonored his office, undermined the rule of law, misused his authority and committed felonies. And the essential question we dare not lose sight of is: can we, without doing further injury to our country, allow this reckless and warped man to remain in office? ."

PR Newswire 10/5/98 Judicial Watch "Yesterday evening, the Judicial Watch Interim Report, which is 145 pages in length with nearly 4000 pages of supporting evidence and documentation, was entered into the official record of the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Hearing. It details impeachable offenses with regard to Clinton scandals which have commonly become known as Filegate, Chinagate, IRS- Gate, and Trustgate, and was compiled from evidence gathered in Judicial Watch's 20 on-going cases concerning the Administration.``No longer can Democrats and other apologists claim that the Clinton scandals only concern sex.. ``In brief, the formal acceptance of the Judicial Watch report by the House Judiciary Committee is recognition that Judicial Watch is a major player in uncovering the full facts about the Clinton scandals. Judicial Watch thanks Congressman Bob Barr for his courageous and patriotic work on the Judiciary Committee, and for his having introduced Judicial Watch's report, without objection, into the Congressional Record,'' concluded Larry Klayman."

Los Angeles Times Syndicate 10/6/98 Cal Thomas "President Clinton is like a man with a bad cold - he tends to infect those with whom he comes in contact. The release of the latest batch of "supporting" documents transmitted to the House Judiciary Committee by independent counsel Kenneth Starr reveals how the president's lack-of-integrity virus infected one of our premier and most respected institutions - the U.S. Secret Service. Traditionally, the Secret Service has enjoyed the public's respect. Its image has been one of highly trained, dedicated, selfless men and women who are willing to stand between an assassin and a president. But testimony before a grand jury reveals that some agents either looked the other way or did and said things that helped the president avoid accountability for the way he behaved with Monica Lewinsky and possibly other women.."

NewsMax.com 10/6/98 Carl Limbacher "Two weeks ago, Ken Starr reported that nine of the 27 tapes supplied by Linda Tripp to the Office of Independent Counsel were copied from the originals, according to an FBI lab analysis. The FBI said one tape may have been tampered with, based on evidence that it was stopped and started during the copying process. Now, a transcript of Linda Tripp's tapes reveals that one such interruption in the recording process came at a crucial point in the conversation between Tripp and Monica Lewinsky. Just as Lewinsky was about to explain her mother's fears that her relationship with President Clinton could cost her her life, the official transcript notes a "tape skip," followed by another "inaudible" portion. Prior to this passage in the Nov. 20, 1997 recording, as excerpted from page A10 of Saturday's New York Times, Lewinsky has just told Tripp that she intends to hang up on Clinton the next time he phones her:."

Conservative News Service 10/5/98 Ben Anderson "The Judicial Watch report to the Judiciary Committee outlining "impeachable offenses" of President Clinton contains much of what many people expected of the Independent Counsel's interim report. But some conservatives are upset that the established media haven't included the report as part of their reporting. Delivered to Congressional leaders last Monday, the Judicial Watch report is a result of evidence uncovered in the discovery process of litigation the watchdog organization filed against the Clinton Administration. Like the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, the Judicial Watch court proceedings included sworn testimony from individuals close to President Clinton. The report has generated little coverage among the established media and those in charge say it is simply because they were unaware of the report..."

Investor's Business Daily 10/6/98 Editorial ".They then usually follow that up with the pronouncement that ''President Clinton's actions don't rise to the level of impeachment.'' It certainly seems they have some idea what is impeachable. We would suggest that commission of felonies is impeachable. GOP Judiciary Committee counsel David Schippers says there is ''substantial and credible'' evidence Clinton may have committed 15 felonies. Perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice were among the possible felonies Clinton may have committed.."

New York Post 10/6/98 Dick Morris ".After Clinton took office, the fire shifted to Hillary. Initially, America was shocked to hear that the First Lady, while married to the governor of Arkansas (then in his first term), had parlayed $1,000 into $100,000 through investments in the futures market. Jim Blair, the lobbyist for Tyson Foods (one of the largest businesses in the state) had advised her on those investments. Then came the revelation of her involvement in the firings of the White House Travel Office staff and of her possible illegal legal work for the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association. Under fire, Hillary added to the staff of defenders, strengthening the bulwarks which protected the Clintons from accusations of scandal. Layers of press people, lawyers and detectives existed solely for the purpose of shrouding in smoke anything that might prove embarrassing to the First Couple. But the wall that protected them also sheltered Saturday Night Bill - in his search for sex. What better environment would an adulterer seek than to have at his beck and call a staff of lawyers to shield him, press people to defend him and detectives to terrify his lovers into silence? Behind this screen and this shield, Saturday Night Bill lost any sense of self-restraint and figured he could do as he pleased. The dilemma for any of Clinton's supporters or friends is becoming increasingly clear. To defend him is to enable him to destroy himself. To criticize him is to point out to him the need for recovery and self-discipline. It is obvious that the well-intentioned efforts of those who protected Clinton from the charges of Gennifer Flowers caused a reckless sense of invulnerability which led directly into the arms of Monica Lewinsky.."

10/6/98 JEROME M. ZEIFMAN "As a lifelong Democrat and chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee at the time of the Nixon impeachment inquiry, I believe I have a personal responsibility to speak out about the current impeachment crisis. And I believe my fellow Democrats on today's Judiciary Committee have a moral, ethical and constitutional responsibility to vote to impeach President Clinton. The positions taken by the president and his die-hard Democratic defenders in Congress and the media are indefensible. We are living in dangerous times. I believe the president has personally brought his office into scandal and disrepute. He has lied repeatedly to the American people, has lied under oath in the Paula Jones case, has committed perjury several times before a criminal grand jury. He has also lied to his own cabinet members and has apparently lied even to his own lawyers. Without asserting his Fifth Amendment privilege, he has directly refused to answer appropriate questions from grand jurors--an offense for which any other American would be held in contempt of court and jailed until he replied.."

The Philadelphia Inquirer 10/6/98 Peter Nicholas Thomas Gibbons Jr. "Police Commissioner John F. Timoney predicted yesterday that arrests would be made in the fight outside City Hall on Friday between pro- and anti-Clinton demonstrators. "My first question is, why wasn't there an arrest," Timoney said in an interview. "My sense is we're going to arrest some people. Everybody has the right to express their opinions. We've got to protect that right." ."

Washington Post 10/7/98 Ruth Marcus "A few months ago, when the White House was seeking to prevent independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr from questioning senior presidential advisers and lawyers, the legal argument came down to this: It's impossible to separate President Clinton's private life from his official duties. Now, as the House prepares to vote tomorrow on launching formal impeachment proceedings against Clinton, the White House is taking the other side of the public-private debate. Stressing that the president's alleged lying under oath in the Paula Jones case concerned the purely private matter of his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky, the White House argument is that such actions are not crimes against the state and therefore do not rise to the level of impeachable offenses."

Newsday.com AP 10/7/98 "Paula Jones does not object to media groups seeing evidence in her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton, her attorneys said in court papers Tuesday. Media groups want the presiding judge to release evidence in the case as soon as possible. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said in a Sept. 1 order that she would release some materials beginning Sept. 28, if no challenges were raised by Sept. 15. Mrs. Jones' attorneys filed a motion on the deadline day saying Wright should release more materials than planned, including Clinton's videotaped deposition in the case."

Washington Times 10/5/98 Nancy Roman "House Democratic leaders are scrambling to keep defections down as they prepare for what is expected to be a bipartisan vote to begin formal impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. If the White House can keep Democrats from supporting the Republican-backed measure, it would be easier to tar a vote to begin an impeachment inquiry as pure partisanship. "The White House is in an aggressive mode as well it should be," said one Democratic strategist. Two House Democrats said they had heard of threatening calls from first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was described as calling the upcoming vote a test of loyalty."

New York Post 10/5/98 Steve Dunleavy "TODAY, as we face one of the longest and most painful days in history, waiting for the House Judiciary Committee's meeting on the frightening subject of impeachment, let's listen to a mother. She was suicidal six years ago and was young for her age. Those were the words of Marcia Lewis, mother of Monica Lewinsky.."

The Washington Times 10/5/98 Bill Sammon "Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's decision not to pursue a Secret Service officer's testimony that President Clinton might have had half a dozen affairs in the White House appears to undercut the Democratic argument that the case is "just about sex."."

Drudge Report 10/5/98 ".Behind the scenes of the Judiciary Committee a fight has broken out over Monica Lewinsky, even before the panel votes to hold any impeachment hearing! It has been learned that several Republican congressmen are now expressing serious concerns about calling Lewinsky to testify in person out of fear that the raw spectacle of a young woman being probed about her sex life on live national television would create complete backlash."

Washington Times 10/5/98 ".White House officials are prepared to force a government shutdown if it will distract from the president's impeachment woes, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott says. "They basically have told me, 'We'll wait and see. If it's to our advantage to shut down the government, we will. If it's not, we won't,'" the Republican leader said yesterday on ABC's "This Week." .."

Chicago Tribune 10/5/98 William Neikirk "WITH a vote near on whether to launch an impeachment inquiry against President Clinton, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde stepped close to saying Sunday that the president committed an impeachable offense if he lied under oath in the Monica Lewinsky case. The Illinois Republican, in the eye of the impeachment hurricane, gave two rare television interviews to present himself to the American people as a fair, non-partisan, reasonable judge of the president's conduct. But he made it clear he doesn't consider Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's allegations against Clinton a weak case.."

The Baltimore Sun 10/5/98 Jack W. Germond and Jules Witcover ".In the contest for the House, the speculation no longer centers on whether the Democrats might capture the 11 seats needed for control but instead about how many seats Republicans may add to their majority. And in the Senate campaign, it now seems possible for the Republicans to gain the five seats that would give them a filibuster- proof control. Given these political realities, is it any wonder that Democrats are being so restrained in their support of President Clinton in the threat to his presidency that has grown out of the Monica Lewinsky affair? The hard fact is that the Democratic Party has fallen into disarray during Mr. Clinton's six years in the White House. As the party's leader and prime symbol, he has been a disaster."

Philadelphia Inquire 10-5-98 By Anne Barnard "They want to see uncut TV news video of a clash during Clinton's visit Friday. A Montco man has filed a complaint. Police detectives said yesterday they planned to review news footage of Friday's City Hall rally as part of their investigation into an alleged assault on a Cheltenham man who said members of the Teamsters union attacked him as he protested against President Clinton..He said he believed John P. Morris, president of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters, placed his hat on Adams' head as "a signal" to trigger the assault. .."

Washington Post 10/5/98 David Segal " Standing on the steps of the Rayburn House Office Building, Larry Klayman last Monday delivered Judicial Watch's own impeachment report to Congress. As might be expected from a conservative group that has sued the administration more than a dozen times, Klayman and his colleagues have come to this grave conclusion: The commander-in-chief must go. To jail, preferably. The "Interim Report," as the document is titled, accuses President Clinton of a few rap sheets' worth of high crimes -- few of them Monica Lewinsky-related -- including bribery, graft, "likely" breaches of national security and theft of government services, not to mention civil rights violations and misuse of several federal agencies. For good measure, Klayman claims Clinton might have violated a federal racketeering law. In sum, the report alleges, the administration has been running "a criminal enterprise from the White House to obtain and maintain hold on the Office of the President of the United States."..But some of the most riveting reading is found in the "Filegate" chapter, which details allegations that the administration illegally obtained the personal FBI files of top Republicans. On Page 21 there's this keeper, a reprinted transcript from "This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts" in which former White House aide George Stephanopoulos discusses how the White House might counterattack GOP lawmakers stoking the Monica Lewinsky scandal. "And I think that in the long run, they have a deterrent strategy on getting a lot of ... [FBI files]," the report quotes Stephanopoulos as saying.."

Wall Street Journal 10/5/98 Jeffrey Taylor "While the House Judiciary Committee's latest document dump helps President Clinton by casting his adversaries in an unflattering light, it also shows important details Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee will probably pursue in impeachment proceedings. The evidence, among other things, suggests the Clinton administration was worried earlier than was previously known about independent counsel Kenneth Starr's interest in the president's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. It shows the weak memory and elusive testimony of Betty Currie, Mr. Clinton's secretary, which is likely to get further scrutiny. And it establishes a connection, in Ms. Lewinsky's mind, between silence about her affair with the president and the prospect Mr. Clinton's powerful friends might help her get a desirable job.."

Philadelphia Daily News 10/5/98 Gloria Campisi "Teamsters' Union boss Johnny Morris clapped his hat onto the head of an anti-Clinton demonstrator. Then all hell broke loose.Clinton and Mayor Rendell were inside City Hall when the melee occurred. Rendell's spokesman, Kevin Feeley, called the fight "unfortuate." Over the weekend, he added that the anti-Clinton demonstrators "chose to make their views known in the faces of the Teamsters. That is not a good career choice." Feeley said yesterday he meant the comment as a joke."

NRP Radio Freeper Report 10/5/98 "Congressman Bob Barr just introduced the Judicial Watch Report to the Impeachment Hearing. It was a great move by all means. I have been waiting for its mention. Now it is in the record in the very most important place!! The hearing is moving along very well! At the very last moment Bob Barr moved to add the Judicial Watch report to the impeachment inquiry and Hyde okay'ed it. IMHO the Commitee Democats were taken by complete surprise"

CBS News 10/5/98 Freeper reports "Impeachment Inquiry passes - 21 Aye votes, 16 Nay votes. Straight party line vote. BoB Barr attempts to have statement by Majority Counsel, which was stricken from the record, re-inserted"

The Washington Post 10/6/98 Ruth Marcus "The House Judiciary Committee's chief Republican lawyer largely endorsed independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's view of the evidence concerning President Clinton and his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky -- and, more importantly, Starr's assessment of the seriousness of Clinton's conduct. Republican counsel David P. Schippers repackaged some of Starr's proposed charges against the president but did not back down from any of Starr's essential conclusions about the president's alleged misdeeds. He jettisoned the most controversial count -- that Clinton abused the powers of his office, by, among other things, invoking executive and attorney-client privilege. But Schippers's roster of 15 impeachable offenses for the committee to consider represented an aggressive view of Clinton's conduct and the law. If anything, his language about the gravity of Clinton's alleged offenses was more forceful than Starr's. Although the allegations against Clinton may have arisen from his "sexual indiscretions," Schippers said, they represent "an ongoing series of deliberate and direct assaults by Mr. Clinton upon the justice system of the United States and upon the judicial branch of our government."."

New York Times 10/6/98 Eds. "The Associated Press summary of the House Judiciary Committee hearing Monday was admirable for its simple, concentrated statement of Washington's political mood and the constitutional quandary presented by a chief executive who has squandered public respect. "No one -- no Republican, no Democrat -- defended Clinton's conduct with Ms. Lewinsky or his testimony while under oath," The A.P. said. "The issue was whether the President's behavior constituted events worthy of impeachment." .Schippers's stinging recitation of the flurry of phone calls among Clinton, Betty Currie and Vernon Jordan should have convinced the President's lawyers that the last thing they want is impeachment proceedings or a Senate trial on obstruction of justice. Monday's hearing should likewise have convinced House Democrats that the Republican majority will never buy Lowell's theory on the acceptability of miniature lies. But they can probably move the Republicans toward a deal that allows this Presidency to run its full if inevitably disappointing course."

National Review 10/5/98 Ramesh Ponnuru, John Miller, Kate Dwyer " Among the additional counts of impeachment raised by Republicans today is a conspiracy count that is an excellent sign that the Judiciary Committee GOP is thinking aggressively. Ken Starr's last, abuse of power count has been widely maligned, even though--despite the common wisdom--it is powerful and altogether justified. Now, in essence, the committee has seen Starr and raised him. The conspiracy count would cast a wide net to include all those figures involved in obstruction during the Jones suit, including possibly Monica Lewinsky, who is heard on last week's tapes witness tampering for all she's worth. Now perhaps we'll begin to hear of a conspiracy beside the fanciful vast right-wing one.."

CNN/Allpolitics 10/5/98 "."Today, it is our responsibility and our constitutional duty to review those materials referred to us and recommended to the House of Representatives whether the matter merits a further inquiry. Let me be clear about this: we are not here today to decide whether or not to impeach Mr. Clinton. We are not here to pass judgment on anyone." -- Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IIllinois), chairman."

CNN/Allpolitics 10/5/98 "."We are witnessing nothing less than symptoms of a cancer on the American presidency. If we fail to remove it, it will expand to destroy the principles that matter most to all of us." -- Rep. Bob Barr (R-Georgia). ."

The Washington Post 10/6/98 Richard Cohen "Regarding Bill Clinton's treatment of his secretary Betty Currie and the other "little people" in the White House, this much can be said: Some of what he did may constitute a high crime and some may amount to a misdemeanor, but a good piece of it, as put down on paper by the ever-helpful Ken Starr, is just plain repulsive. No matter what the law might say, some offenses are clearly offensive.."

The Dallas Morning News 10/4/98 Rena Pederson "Someday we may realize that the Lewinsky scandal was only one of the symptoms, not the real disease that's destroying the presidency. One wake-up call is coming Tuesday night. Frontline will air a sobering report called "Washing ton's Other Scandal." Technically, it's about the sewer of campaign fund raising. But the subtext is moral myopia and legal mummery The documentary is anchored by Bill Moyers, who is one of the few journalists who can slice to the nub of the matter by asking political henchmen dead on: "But was that moral?" Watch them try to weasel away. They resort to evasions about legality rather than morality. They can't seem to make decisions based on right and wrong, but by what is proscribed by law - as the president says, what's "legally accurate" or how you define what "is" is. This is like the teenager who brings the car home wrecked at midnight and says you didn't say not to drink and drive, you said back by 12.."

New York Times 10/2/98 Grand Jury Testimony about gifts - Betty Currie 1/27/98 " A.: Monica said she was getting concerned, and she wanted to give me the stuff the President had given her -- or give me a box of stuff. It was a box of stuff. ... Q.: What did you do with the box? A.: I put it under my bed.." 5/5/98 ".Q.: And did the President know you were holding these things for Monica? A.: I don't know. I don't know.." .Q.: Did you talk to him about it? A.: I don't remember talking to him about that, about the gifts. Q.: If Monica said you did, would that not be true? A.: If Monica said I talked to the President about it? Q.: Right. A.: Then she may remember better than I. I don't remember.,," 7/22/98 ".JUROR: How did you come to be in possession of the box of gifts, then? THE WITNESS: The best I remember is Monica calls me and asks me if she can give me some gifts, if I'd pick up some gifts from her. JUROR: And did she tell you what kind of gifts they were. THE WITNESS: She did not. JUROR: She didn't tell you that they were gifts from the President. THE WITNESS: She did not. JUROR: Did she tell you why she wanted you to pick them up? THE WITNESS: She wanted me to hold them.."

New York Times 10/2/98 Grand Jury Testimony about gifts - Monica Lewinsky 8/6/98 ".Q.: What did she say? A.: She said, "I understand you have something to give me." Or, "The President said you have something to give me." Along those lines. Q.: How long after you had left the White House did Betty call you? A.: Several hours. Q.: When she said something along the lines of "I understand you have something for me," or "The President says you have something for me," what did you understand her to mean? A.: The gifts. ... Q.: O.K. Let me just ask you some questions. Did you ever discuss with her the contents of the box? A.: I don't believe so. Q.: Did she ever ask about the contents of the box? A.: No. Q.: Did she ever say anything indicating that she knew from a prior discussion the contents of the box? A.: Not -- no, not that I remember...Q.: O.K. You could have given the items to someone else, a friend of yours, Ashley Raines or to your mother or just hidden them somewhere. Why didn't you do that? A.: I think -- I've come to sort of see this now. I don't know that I necessarily saw it then, but I feel now a little bit that me turning over some of these things was a little bit of an assurance to the President or reassurance that, you know, that everything was O.K. Q.: In your mind, then, were you giving these items not just to Betty, but really to the President as well, in a manner of speaking? A.: I think that was even more directly what I thought it was. Not that they were going to be in his possession, but that he would understand whatever it was I gave to Betty and that that might make him feel a little bit better.."

New York Times 10/2/98 Grand Jury Testimony about gifts - Bill Clinton 8/17/98 "A.: ... I did have a conversation with Ms. Lewinsky at some time about gifts, the gifts I'd given her. ... A.: ... My recollection is that Ms. Lewinsky said something to me like, "What if they ask me about the gifts you've given me?" That's the memory I have. That's why I question whether it happened on the 28th, because she had a subpoena with her, request for production. And I told her that if they asked her for gifts, she'd have to give them whatever she had, that that's what the law was. ... Q.: After you gave her the gifts on Dec. 28th, did you speak with your secretary, Ms. Currie, and ask her to pick up a box of gifts that were some compilation of gifts that Ms. Lewinsky would have? A.: No sir, I didn't do that. ... Q.: ... Did you ever have a conversation with Betty Currie about gifts, or picking something up from Monica Lewinsky? A.: I don't believe I did, sir. No.."

Washington Weekly 10/5/98 Edward Zehr "Where have all those highly moral Democrats gone? You know who I mean, Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Kerrey who expressed their moral outrage on the Senate floor at the dissolute behavior of President Clinton, not to mention a host of others, such as House Minority Leader Gephardt, who added their voices to the growing chorus of disapprobation. Suddenly the clarion call has fallen silent as these tribunes of civic virtue scurry off to their hidey-holes to await further developments. And all it took to accomplish this was a measly six-point bounce in Clinton's approval rating, hardly more than the margin of sampling error. Is that all a Democrat's virtue is worth these days?..Not that the mainstream press have been completely inactive. Upon noticing that six-point pimple in the polls, they proceeded once more to perform their celebrated minnow maneuver. For those who are new to this column, the mainstream press are wont to glide along in a certain direction, keeping perfect formation, until some anomaly in the news triggers a lightning fast reaction -- faster than the eye can see, the minnows flip in unison and are then seen to be swimming, perfectly synchronized, in the opposite direction. How this is accomplished is one of nature's great mysteries. No single minnow seems to lead the rest of the school, nor is there visible evidence of communication amongst the various fishies. They just do it, that's all..."

10/4/98 Editorial Richmond Times-Dispatch "Part of Bill Clinton's dubious legacy will be as the President who killed feminism. He didn't exactly murder it, but he drove it to suicide. The end came last week when feminist leaders gathered at the National Press Club to announce they were fully supportive of the Harasser-in-Chief. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Reams have been written about their disparate treatment of Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton -- though Thomas' alleged offenses can't compare with Clinton's pathological predation. But more consequential is that if Clinton prevails, much of what feminists fought for will be lost. For instance, sexual harassment will become permissible because perpetrators can simply lie. Under the Clinton precedent, they could hardly be prosecuted for perjuring themselves about sex.And having refused to condemn Clinton's behavior, feminists now can credibly criticize no one. If the most powerful man on Earth can prey on the lowliest worker (an intern), then what's wrong with a CEO suggesting a secretary trade favors? .George Stephanopoulos said it best about Clinton's treatment of Monica Lewinsky: What you read about the President [in the Starr report] makes it impossible to respect him. . . . He has sex with [Ms. Lewinsky] and perhaps doesn't know her name. When he's threatened by her, he suggests that, you know, 'Maybe we'll have a life together afterwards'; and then when she threatens him, he calls in an aide and starts to destroy her -- starts to say she was a stalker -- and it's just profoundly depressing to see that. ."

FoxNews 10/4/98 Henry Hyde and Tony Snow "....FOX NEWS ANCHOR TONY SNOW: How long do you think this deliberation will last? U.S. HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN HENRY HYDE: Again, my New Years resolution is end it by New Years. SNOW: That's what you want. HYDE: Depends on the Democrats. If they're forthcoming, they could give us a series of stipulations now, and- not force us to prove things. If they would do that, we could short-circuit this immensely. SNOW: Stipulations that... HYDE: About perjury, about things that we think the evidence shows...but are going to be driven through because of the presidential semantic gymnastics... SNOW: So if they stipulate to perjury, obstruction of justice, and the charges that Mr. Schippers lays out, it's all done by the end of the year. If not, we're in for the long haul. HYDE: Oh, that's the Emerald City of Oz. That would be wonderful. That won't happen.."

MSNBC 10/4/98 ".HYDE, R-ILL., and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., appearing on "Meet the Press" Sunday, offered two very different views on how the House Judiciary Committee will be handling the impeachment process. Hyde asserted that he, not House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., was in charge. He said so far neither he nor the speaker have disagreed on the process. But Hyde said if they did, he would proceed his way to ensure an impartial hearing. But Conyers blasted the process as unfair and said Gingrich and Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Tex., are the ones calling the shots in the process. He said those two leaders are talking about dragging out impeachment hearings until the Year 2000. Conyers said he would like the hearings over by Thanksgiving.. In the end, Hyde said the Judiciary committee will likely vote along party lines to hold impeachment hearings. He said even if it's clear that the Senate doesn't have the two-thirds vote needed to impeach the president, House members will proceed to do what he calls their "constitutional duty." .."

Freeper report on Rush Limbaugh 10/2/98 "Rush made some interesting information available Friday on his show. It seems that 100% of the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee has spent over 140 hours going over the evidence. In contrast, 6 Democrats have never darkened the door, and of the ones who HAVE taken the trouble to *look at the evidence, they spent about 20 hours doing so."

The Sunday Times UK 10/4/98 Zoe Brennan "SADDAM HUSSEIN is trying to import liposuction equipment into Iraq under the cover of humanitarian aid. Saddam, whose people have been crippled by sanctions since the Gulf war, has asked a United Nations committee to approve the item - which sucks away excess fat - for inclusion on a list of "essential" medical supplies. British officials believe the equipment, which has been requested alongside silicon breast implants, acne cream and dental lasers to whiten teeth, is intended for use by Saddam, his family, friends and supporters. The imports - some of which have already reached the devastated country - would allow Saddam's entourage to continue to pamper themselves despite sanctions designed to curb his brutal regime, according to Foreign Office sources.."

The Sunday Times UK 10/4/98 Jon Swain "UNITED NATIONS policy towards Iraq has been thrown into disarray by the disclosure that Richard Butler, the chief executive of the UN commission in charge of scrapping the country's weapons of mass destruction, wants to resign. Butler has been discouraged from leaving by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general. According to western diplomats, Annan has persuaded Butler to remain in his post until next year. However Butler's eventual departure could further destabilise the operations of the UN special commission (Unscom) following the resignation of Scott Ritter, a senior American arms inspector, in August. Ritter accused both America and Britain of allowing Iraq to evade its Gulf war disarmament obligations. Further resignations are expected. Unscom is not the only UN unit affected by unease over international policy towards Iraq. Denis Halliday, the humanitarian co-ordinator of the Iraqi oil-for-food programme, resigned in disillusionment last week at the end of a long and distinguished UN career..

AP Jim Abrams 10/4/98 "On the eve of House Judiciary hearings into possible impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, chairman Henry Hyde said Sunday the Senate so far does not have the two-third majority necessary to remove the president from office. Hyde also said he hopes to finish his impeachment inquiry by year's end but won't accept Democratic demands for limits on the investigation.. The Judiciary Committee anticipates no more material from Starr, Hyde said, and ``we are not seeking that. We're not out trolling for additional issues. But if they come to our attention we will deal with them.'' Hyde, who appeared on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' and ``Fox News Sunday,'' added: ``We don't feel bound by Ken Starr.''."

CNN 10/4/98 Ross Perot Freeper report "...PEROT:...I said his brain didn't work....he's taken something that causes him to behave erratically...He's admitted to former drug use in the past....all over Arkansas they're just covered up with stories about his problems with cocaine and what have you in the Mena (ph) airport...if every part of his brain is working correctly then he wouldn't be doing these out-of- control things that just devastate his family, lower the morality of the country, cause the American people to lose faith in their government..

Freeper report 10/4/98 on FoxNews Philadelphia (B. DeMaria) "Breaking:Fox News in Philadelphia just announced that Don Adams will be going to criminal court charging that John P. Morris order three (3) Teamsters to attack him during his anti-Clinton protest at City Hall, Philadelphia on Friday 10-2-98. "

USA Journal Online 10/5/98 Jon E. Dougherty "Union thugs began beating on Clinton protestors shortly after the President made his debut at a Philadelphia fundraiser on Saturday, and all he thought to do to "address" the problem is wink at his audience and say, `Hey - this is America. Those people have a right to protest if they want to." Profound, Mr. President. Thank you ever so much for such divine leadership. Now how about being a man and owning up to this divisiveness since you're obviously the cause of it? Clinton spoke not one word against the attackers because after all, `they have a right to defend his honor, don't they? Isn't this America?' This from the man who supposedly abhors all this `domestic violence'. Obviously not if that violence is a byproduct of support for him.."

Drudge 10/5/98 ".Working with the theory that the Lewinsky impeachment referral is too hot to handle, and an embarrassment to those who wrote it, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee will use their subpoena power to call Independent Counsel Ken Starr during the impeachment inquiry, according to committee sources. "Starr will be his own 'Starr witness,'" said a staffer for a ranking Democrat on the committee. "We'll let [Rep.] Maxine [Waters] work the questions." Calling Starr could turn into the minority's worst nightmare. "He knows this case inside and out!" laughs a Starr associate. "No one could outline the case better than Starr himself."."

The New York Times 10/5/98 William Safire ".6. Why is no outrage or dismay expressed by Clinton's traditional supporters at his unceasing degradation of Betty Currie? Here is a woman known for her good character cynically used by the President to facilitate acts of bad character, and a person known for strong religious values induced by peer pressure to ever-increasing forgetfulness while under an oath before her God. That offense by Clinton to a loyal and trusting human being may be unimpeachable, but it is unforgivable. 7. Why are we allowing White House spinmeisters to rig the coming evaluation of this"impeachment election"? American voters will decide on Nov. 3 if Clinton will be impeached. But the Clinton line is if Democrats merely "hold their own," that is to be interpreted as a ringing vote of confidence as if this were a normal midterm election. No sale. If Democrats gain strength in Congress, Clinton wins. If Republicans extend their majorities, he loses, because the voters' message to the House will be: impeach. If it's a breakeven, it's a wash, and unsignaled Senate jurors would just have to vote their consciences."

The Arizona Republic 10/4/98 Marianne Moody Jennings ".There are the New Age Democrats, whose motto is "Judge not lest we end up with all kinds of morality." Longtime advocates of the notion of more than one truth, their favorite and only known scripture is "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," which always is followed by the exculpatory "Who am I to judge?" New Age Democrats have the moral rigor of Aerosmith and their alpha male is their modern-day Moliere, Jerry Seinfeld. Steel-mill Democrats are mostly Teamsters whose newfound party enthusiasm is the result of President Clinton's support for unions as well as his amazing ability to conduct extramarital affairs without his Yale Law School graduate wife ever catching on. It's a guy bonding thing. Their alpha male is James Carville..For Republicans, morality trumps politics. Republicans take the rough moral road and suffer the slings and arrows, but they will not dishonor a history of fortitude. They will stumble through this national crisis as the Democrats unite in self-interest and conquer. Republicans' statesmanship sprung from a common fiber of decency will be upped by gamesmanship sprung from self-interest factions. The games have begun, with the Democratic factions out in full Colosseum dress armed with bread and circuses as their Nero fiddles in a White House burning in infamy. The lions for the Republicans are surely not far behind."

AP 10/3/98 Bettie Currie testimony ".Q: Did he tell you why he was telling you those statements? A: I don't remember him saying that, no. Q: Okay. Specifically, the five statements that you previously testified about were as follows. . . The first was, "I was never alone with Monica Lewinsky, right?" The second was, "You were always here when she was here, right?" The third was, "Monica Lewinsky came on to me, and I never touched her, right?" The fourth was, "You could see everything, right?" And the fifth was, "Monica Lewinsky wanted to have sex with me, and I cannot do that." Is that an accurate rendition of the statements. . . A:. . . I'm going to say yes, but No. 5. . . I don't remember it as part of the litany of questions. Q:. . . You do remember the fifth comment. A: I remember that comment, yes. Q: It was just said to you separately? A: Correct. Q: Now, to each of these statements. . . you did respond, "Right," . . . A: I remember saying, "Right,". . . Q:. . . . I think you gave some examples of family, close friends, that you wouldn't log in those personal calls. Is that correct? A: That's correct. . . . Sometimes, well, the staff members, I didn't log in their calls. . . SOMETIES IF HE'D GET CALLS FROM PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD, I WOULDN'T LOG THOSE IN . . . "

Washington Post 10/4/98 John Harris "Hoping to quash the congressional impeachment process in its nascent stages, President Clinton in recent days discussed with Senate Minority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) organizing an effort to have Democratic senators sign a letter declaring that none of the allegations or evidence in the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation would merit impeachment, according to Democratic sources."

Organized Labor Accountability Project - 9/21/98 "A 1973 Supreme Court decision effectively made vandalism, assault and even murder by union officials exempt from federal anti-extortion law, and "the result has been an epidemic of union-related violence," according to a new study from the Cato Institute (www.cato.org). In "Freedom from Union Violence," author David Kendrick traces the history of labor law and union violence during the 20th century, beginning with the notorious case of a former Idaho governor murdered in 1905 by union mine workers who felt he had betrayed them by calling in federal troops during a strike.."

New Haven Register 10/3/98 Christopher Hoffman "Republican Gary Franks Friday again accused his opponent, U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, of neglecting the state while working all-out for the Democratic National Committee during the last presidential campaign. Franks, who made his comments during a meeting with the New Haven Register's editorial board, charged that Dodd spent 90 straight weekends out of the state during his time as general chairman of the DNC.."

Silicon Valley Logic 10/4/98 "It comes as no big surprise that citizens supporting impeachment are better informed about the contents of the Starr Report. To a certain extent, this may be a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts, for if one believes that impeachment is warranted, one is more likely to carefully review the facts of the case.What is shocking, however, is that while 25% of those surveyed believed almost across the board that: Clinton committed no offenses, Clinton deserves no punishment, They are personally well- informed about the Starr Report, The Starr Report presents no facts about impeachable allegations, Their personal judgements about the case are accurate, These individuals were much less likely to understand the facts and allegations contained in the Starr Report.."

Chicago Tribune 10/3/98 NAFTALI BENDAVID ".But equally telling, many legal observers say, is what Starr apparently chose to leave out of the 17 boxes of documents he turned over to the House. The omissions are suggestive of the ongoing nature of Starr's investigation and remaining jeopardy for the president. Two major elements are especially conspicuous by their absence. The entire Kathleen Willey episode, involving accusations that a Democratic activist was groped by Clinton and then pressured to keep silent, merited scant mention in Starr's formal report to Congress and the voluminous supplemental materials. And Bruce Lindsey -- the most senior Clinton aide who helped coordinate the White House defense and whose reluctance to testify infuriated Starr -- was barely mentioned in Starr's formal report.."

Blue Bay Media 8/5/98 Robert VannRox "Politically, the future of the Clinton Administration is destined to be one of controversy. The inevitability of additional scandalous discoveries is now universally assumed. Yet, the horrors already discovered will be eclipsed by hereto unsuspected treasonous artifacts uncovered by spelunking investigators. ...Make no mistake. The Clinton Campaign Finance Catastrophe will be investigated. It will be exhumed and the evil, long buried under the sweet hedges of prosperity, will be exposed for what is actually is. Treason.."

Detroit News 10/4/98 "This week the House of Representatives is expected to vote on an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton. In the process, it will have to decide how broad its investigation should be. Democrats want to restrict it to sex: Monica Lewinsky and the president. Republicans have drafted an open-ended resolution that would let the House explore any credible allegations of malfeasance. The key passage reads: "[T]he committee is authorized and directed to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach William Jefferson Clinton, president of the United States of America." .The documents released by the committee last Friday make it obvious that Congress has plenty to investigate. The Tripp tapes have Ms. Lewinsky offering Linda Tripp bribes. Ms. Lewinsky suggests she has received coaching from the president on legal matters and that she feared for her safety if she should cross the president. Elsewhere, presidential pal Vernon Jordan seems to refute Mr. Clinton's sworn testimony that the two of them never talked about legal strategies in the case. One-time presidential political adviser Dick Morris asserts that the president has assembled a "secret police" force to snoop on some citizens and strong-arm others. These nuggets suggest some familiar questions: Did this president or his minions abuse power and betray the trust of the American people? Did the Internal Revenue Service harass Clinton's political enemies? Did the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) mount an improper prosecution of former Travel Office Director Billy Ray Dale? Did the White House leak Linda Tripp's personnel file to the press? Did the administration mislead investigators about the transfer of 1,000 or so FBI files to the White House? Add to this the possibility of future inquiries into fund-raising in the 1996 campaign - which the White House and the Justice Department have done their best to stall or undermine - and you have allegations of corruption without precedent in our nation's highest office.."

New York Post 10/4/98 ".But even if the Spectator wrote Hale a check for $1 billion, it's no business of the government's - unless the Spectator did so as a way of inducing Hale to give to give false testimony. By the way, Scaife's donations to the American Spectator are matters of public record, since the Spectator is a not-for-profit publication. Where's the crime? There is no crime. There is only the silence of supposedly passionate advocates for the First Amendment who have done nothing while a newspaper publisher and a magazine fall afoul of an investigation that should never have been undertaken.."

Florida Times-Union 10/3/98 Rodger Belcher, Letter to Editor "When politicians are found to be lying to the people and are removed for it, the country grows stronger at the expense of the politician. When politicians are found to be lying to the people and are not removed, the country grows more corrupt at the expense of justice. Politicians are expendable; justice is not!"

Philadelphia Inquirer 10-4-98 Susan Q. Stranahan "Don Adams of Cheltenham spent yesterday nursing bruises and a cut beneath his eye, the aftermath of his efforts Friday evening to demonstrate his "deep concern" for America and the conduct of President Clinton. Adams, 37, said he was knocked to the ground and struck by members of the Teamsters union during a rally outside City Hall, where the President was attending a fund-raiser. About three busloads of pro-Clinton Teamsters and 60 or 70 anti-Clinton demonstrators, many of whom were members of the Pro-Life Union of Southeast Pennsylvania, greeted the President and then continued their rallies. Several participants said tensions on both sides escalated as the evening wore on. Adams said he was carrying a sign that read: "Resign or Get Impeached," and "Liar, Pervert, a National Shame." He said he became embroiled in a shouting match with John P. Morris, president of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters, and several other union members. According to Adams, Morris removed the fedora he was wearing and placed it on Adams' head. Moments later, Adams said, he was knocked to the sidewalk by T- shirted union members. "I think it was a signal," said Adams, who is self-employed. His sister was pushed or fell on top of him and also struck, Adams said. Morris, in an interview on Channel 6, contended that Adams was the aggressor. Morris said Adams sparked the incident by hitting two women standing near him. Police quickly broke up the scuffle and took Adams to Allegheny University Hospitals/Hahnemann, where he was treated for the bruises and released. Adams' sister was not injured.. Kevin Feeley, spokesman for Mayor Rendell, said the incident was "unfortunate." Clinton, Rendell and Feeley were inside City Hall at the time. While the administration "does not condone" the actions of the Teamsters, Feeley said, "the anti-Clinton groups chose to make their views known. They chose to make their views known in the faces of the Teamsters. "That," said Feeley, "is generally not a good career choice."."

Reuters 10/4/98 "The White House Saturday denounced the latest release of documents in the Monica Lewinsky case as a massive dump of ``garbage'' that only shows Republicans are seeking political gain from Clinton's troubles. Spokesman Joe Lockhart also attacked reported plans by the House Judiciary Committee to expand the current list of 11 possible grounds for the impeachment of President Clinton to include new counts focusing on witness tampering, obstruction of justice and making false statements under oath. Lockhart told reporters that this expansion ``again demonstrates some of the concerns we've had about this being a partisan and unf