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Non-responsive. Still waiting for someone to show me how sexual pecadillos have anything to do with financial crimes.

So, you define harrassment as a pecadillo, do you? Perhaps if your mother, or wife, or sister, or daughter had endured what happened to Paula Jones at the hands of her superior, you'd feel different. Perhaps not. Do you think the laws on sexual harrassment unnecessary? Do you think they should be obeyed and those who break them punished. Like Clinton himself, you have no shame in your support of that coward who hides behind the skirt of his wife and calls upon his Cabinet, Executives of this country, to cover up his crimes.

For the record, Ken Starr was Independent Counsel investigating Whitewater when allegations surfaced that Clinton was soliciting perjury in the Paula Jones case. Janet Reno asked Starr to investigate those charges as well. That's how they are connected. She could have appointed another IC, but didn't. The Impeachment charges of perjury where those Starr felt were most obvious and provable. Little did he realize how truly sleazy Congressional Democrats were. And you want to line up with them?

I was thinking more of Monica Lewinsky, who seemed to me to have been a 50/50 player in her little drama with Bill C.

Now, the Paula Jones situation is much more sordid. I have no support for that. Certainly grounds for a civil suit, and as I remember in fact one was pursued and settled. A sexual harassment suit would be something for the State of Arkansas' legal machinery, though, not impeachment, as (please correct me if I'm wrong) that had nothing to do with any acts of Bill's Presidency. If Paula Jones filed a sexual harassment suit in the State of Arkansas against Bill Clinton, I'd support her actions and wish her luck, although I'd imagine that was handled in the civil suit settlement.

The connection to the Whitewater investigation, then, is simply that it and the investigation of these other matters were done by the same lawyers. The acts themselves had nothing to do with Whitewater, but to read the original statement in the news story, and with no other understanding of the issues, you'd think that the Clintons were charged with financial malfeasance in Whitewater, and they weren't.