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While the Dems still flounder away at indicting Bush with Enron, other political misdoings are being proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, not that there ever WAS any doubt.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48277- 2002Mar6.html
OIC Has Evidence Clinton Lied
By Pete Yost
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, March 6, 2002; 11:56 AM
WASHINGTON –– A final report by Independent Counsel Robert Ray concluded Wednesday that prosecutors had ample evidence for criminal charges against President Clinton in the scandal involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
"The independent counsel's judgment that sufficient evidence existed to prosecute President Clinton was confirmed by President Clinton's admissions," the report stated. "President Clinton admitted he 'knowingly gave evasive and misleading answers'" about his sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.
It wasn't until Clinton's next-to-last day in office that he finally put the investigation of allegations of perjury and obstruction in the Lewinsky matter behind him.
The president's lawyers cut a deal with Ray that spared Clinton from criminal charges in the Lewinsky controversy. The president admitted that he had made false statements under oath about his relationship with the former White House intern and surrendered his law license for five years.
The report stated that "President Clinton engaged in conduct that impeded the due administration of justice by testifying falsely under oath ... that he could not recall ever being alone with Monica Lewinsky; and he had not had a sexual affair or engaged in sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky."
In response to the report, Clinton attorney David Kendall issued a brief statement: "The investigation of President Clinton from 1994 to 2001 was intense, expensive, partisan and long. There's still no Whitewater report, and there's nothing new in this report. It's time to move on."
© 2002 The Associated Press
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