Word Choice
A quick memory check (if it serves) says that when the report on Clinton/Lewinsky came out a few weeks ago, RepublicanSenateCandidateIndependentCounsel Ray said that there was enough evidence to indict Clinton for perjury. To me this means that they knew they could never win and thus cut the deal with Clinton before he left office. Salon has their own thoughts on the weakness of Ray's actual case. The report on Whitewater comes out now and says that the Clintons could not have been convicted of any criminal activity in Whitewater. But wait, could they have been indicted? Doesn't seem to say. So we know Bill could have been indicted for perjury in Lewinsky, but not convicted of any criminal act in Whitewater? Would the press please elaborate on the IC's parsing of words here? My read? Ray has and had squat to take any legal action. Why else would a $70MM investigation wind up with such a sweetheart deal for Clinton? What a joke.
- posted by levinson @ 3/21/2002 08:33:00 AM