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...sued in a civil matter. Some legal scholars read into that decision a willingness to make the President answerable to criminal prosecutions as well. But others argue that the Founding Fathers intended the Impeachment Clause to be the only mechanism for prosecuting a President. As a practical matter, Starr is more likely to present evidence of illegal activity by Clinton to Congress for impeachment proceedings than to a federal court for trial...
Though the Constitution doesn't define "high Crimes and Misdemeanors," there is little doubt that the worst of the obstruction-of-justice and perjury charges against Clinton, if true, would qualify. But Clinton's accusers would have the same difficulties in proving obstruction of justice at an impeachment that Starr would have in court. It seems unlikely, in any case, that C-SPAN will be carrying a Clinton impeachment anytime soon. If it got to that point, he would be under powerful pressure to step down. "The Democrats would force the President out before it got that far," says George...
...Cuba by the most famous celibate in the world but just why it is that a perky anchorperson is talking about something called oral sex. The second, perhaps more lasting problem is the legal precedent set by this ballooning investigation. Until last week, the criticism of independent counsel Kenneth Starr went largely to his unchecked power. Former Republican independent counsel Joseph diGenova calls the whole setup "a constitutional monstrosity." Now we watch as a prosecutor gunning for a President uses tactics to dig up dirt that would make NYPD Blue's Detective Sipowicz blanch. Starr not only pulled a sting...
...Consider Starr's response when Monica Lewinsky's "friend," Linda Tripp, brought him 20 hours of surreptitiously recorded conversations. He wired Tripp, listened in and then three days later instructed her to lure Lewinsky once again to a Virginia hotel for lunch. Instead of a sandwich with Tripp, Lewinsky, now 24, got a raft of agents swooping down on her. At 1 p.m. they took the stunned Lewinsky to a set of rooms and commenced an on-again, off-again interrogation that would last 10 hours. Starr's office said she was free to leave at any time...
...duty. No one should lie, but Big Brother shouldn't ask. This all comes by way of a prosecutor who before he took the appointment was ready to file an amicus brief supporting Paula Jones. Now he's her amicus, all right; the course of her case is in Starr's hands as much as anyone else...