Posted on 06/21/2004 1:35:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
LONDON (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton (news - web sites) lost his temper during a BBC interview after being repeatedly asked if he was genuine in voicing regret over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton, revving up a publicity campaign ahead of the release Tuesday of his memoirs, bristled at relentless questioning about the affair with the White House intern by veteran BBC interviewer David Dimbleby, according to British newspapers.
The Times said Monday that Clinton, known for being media savvy and cheerful in public, let out a rant that lasted several minutes.
"As outbursts go, it is not just some flash that is over in an instant. It is something substantial and sustained," said a BBC executive who viewed the interview, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
The weekly said Clinton then branched out into an attack on media intrusion into the private lives of public figures.
Britain's public broadcaster will air the Clinton interview Tuesday, in step with the release of his much-awaited memoirs.
While the book recounts key global events of the charismatic Clinton's two-term presidency -- Kosovo, the Middle East, Somalia -- public interest in the 957-page tome has focused on the Lewinsky affair, one of the "old demons" that nearly brought down the world's most powerful man.
In leaked excerpts of the book and interviews ahead of its release, Clinton describes the Lewinsky affair as a moral failing, says he worried about losing the love of his daughter Chelsea and confesses that his marriage was salvaged by a year of intensive marital counseling.
It would be denied of course,but that would help Hillary's political image (women impressed with her standing up to him; men assured she is tough enough, physically and mentally, to be president).
IMHO, everything you see and here from those people is part of a "Vast Far-Left Wing Conspiracy"
I think the following is what they settled on, It looks reasonably specific to me but what do I know?...
1. Contact 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;
2. Contact between any part of the person's body or an object and the genitals or anus of another person; or
3. Contact between the genitals or anus of the person and any part of another person's body.
Contact means intentional touching, either directly or through clothing."
In the news four years ago...
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President Clinton this week is expected to become the first sitting president served with formal legal ethics complaints. One of them is brought by the Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation, which wants him disbarred.
Clinton, who is licensed to practice law in Arkansas, was mailed two complaints Wednesday via certified mail by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, foundation President Matthew Glavin said. The foundation's complaint alleges "willful professional misconduct by lying under oath in a court of law" by Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
In addition, Clinton will be served another complaint stemming from the contempt of court citation issued in April 1999 by U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who presided over the Jones case, Glavin said.
White House spokesman Steve Boyd declined comment Thursday. Clinton has 30 days to file a response, Glavin said.
Wright fined Clinton $ 90,000 after finding he deliberately misled the court about his sexual encounters with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Clinton's conduct in the case led to his impeachment. The question now is whether it will make him the first president to be disbarred. (President Nixon gave up his bar license after resigning over the Watergate scandal.)
"When a lawyer violates his professional oath, lies before a court of law and obstructs justice, that lawyer must be held accountable," Glavin said. "Now that process can begin."
Clinton, who received his law degree from Yale University, taught law school classes and served as Arkansas attorney general. If disbarred, he could not practice law after he leaves office.
The Southeastern Legal Foundation is a conservative public interest law firm. It also represents white business owners in the lawsuit against Atlanta's affirmative action program. Former independent counsel Kenneth Starr will address its annual dinner in April.
The foundation's ethics complaint was filed in September 1998 by L. Lynn Hogue, a Georgia State University constitutional law professor who also is licensed to practice law in Arkansas. He chairs the foundation's legal advisory board.
In December, the foundation asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to order its Committee on Professional Conduct to begin the complaint proceedings against Clinton. Two weeks ago, the court issued the order.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Thursday that three members of the court's 14-member disciplinary panel have made donations to Democratic candidates and the party. The newspaper also reported that two other people designated to serve as alternates gave money directly to Clinton's presidential campaigns.
That blue dress is what sunk the Stainmaster. That scathing letter from Judge Wright didn't help him either. I seem to recall the committee suspended his license for 6 years and fined him something like $26K.
see post 62
All this to me is NOTHING compared to that transfer to China of rocket and missile guidance technology by Clinton/Gore.
Text of Bill Clinton's Statement on Consent Order
January 19, 2001
(CNSNews.com)
Today, I signed a consent order in the lawsuit brought by the Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct which brings to an end that proceeding.
I have accepted a five-year suspension of my law license, agreed to pay a $25,000 fine to cover counsel fees, and acknowledged a violation of one of the Arkansas model rules of professional conduct because of testimony in my Paula Jones case deposition. The disbarment suit will now be dismissed.
I have taken every step I can to end this matter. I've already settled the Paula Jones case, even after it was dismissed as being completely without legal and factual merit. I have also paid court and counsel fees and restitution and been held in civil contempt for my deposition testimony regarding Ms. Lewinsky, which Judge Wright agreed had no bearing on Ms. Jones case, even though I disagreed with the findings in the judge's order.
I will not seek any legal fees incurred as a result of the Lewinsky investigation to which I might otherwise become entitled under the Independent Counsel Act.
I have had occasion frequently to reflect on the Jones case. In this consent order, I acknowledge having knowingly violated Judge Wright's discovery orders in my deposition in that case. I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.
I have apologized for my conduct and I have done my best to atone for it with my family, my administration and the American people. I have paid a high price for it, which I accept because it caused so much pain to so many people. I hope my actions today will help bring closure and finality to the matters.
Yes, that and a dozen other outrages.
You are generous with that low number. :-)
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Indeed, Judge Wright held the president in contempt for only some of his many, many perjuries. Among other whoppers, she cited "the president's deposition testimony regarding whether he had ever been alone with Ms. Lewinsky" and "his statements regarding whether he had ever engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky" as "intentionally false." But when she referred Clinton's case to the Disciplinary Committee, she also noted -- "this court is fully aware that the president may have engaged in other contumacious conduct warranting the imposition of sanctions."
What's up with the angrycrats and their gnashing of teeth. Do y'all recall when Gore gave his televised concession speech in 2000? After his last sentence, for about five seconds, the camera closed in on him. He menacingly stared back at the camera. All the while, he gnashed his teeth to the point that his cheeks were vibrating. It completely annihilated the warm, fuzzy feeling that he created in his speech.
...however, he did retain his Soreloserman title.
Seems that many doesn't it?
I think he is the worst President of all time due to the China deal and letting Osama go.
I used to think Carter.
Carter signed a bill in 1980 that gave us the S&L Crisis and it gets worse, but as bad as Carter was, he never enabled intercontinental missiles for the enemy as Clinton did.
Anyone Remember the old Saturday Night Live sketch for the 1992 Democrat Primary race? It was CSPAN taking their one camera and one microphone to a scifi convention in time to show Bill Clinton, (phil hartman) loose his temper because shatner or nimoy endorsed someone else. He flys into a rage and smashes the podium to bits.
What would be good is if we could have a massive flood to Rush, Sean, etc. to see these type video clips again. After all the so-called "unbiased" media sure do play them up when it's a Republican. I've tried getting through to Rush , etc. by e-mail but unless it's two sentences long and "pithy", it gets ignored.
???...w/ Rev. Je$$e "I've got a $cheme" Jack$on...noted adultery/father of an "child out of wedlock"
Thanks for digging that up.
I guess we're looking at it from different points of view in evaluating specificity. You are looking at the fine details and viewing it as specific, which it is in defining specific contacts. I'm looking at how it compares to "acts of sex", and noting that it includes things that would not be regarded as sex - which he falsely denied doing.
Well, heres a list that the Clinton Administration came up with in just one day in 1994:
1994 Memo: White House 'Task List'
The actual list is like the 6th or 7th post down.
Note: The names after each category are those of the people assigned to deal with each set of problems. Several of these were not known about until six months or more after this document (The Sherburne Report) was created.
Thanks, lepton. That's quite a list. And it's even more damning when we reflect that the 39 identified scandals leave out many others the Clinton WH had still managed to keep a lid on. Then there are the future ones, such as pardongate. What amazes me is that Waco, a totally unjustified massacre of Americans by the federal government, receives practically no play at all. Eighty+ innocent people are shot up and burned to death and to this very day, all Congress can muster is a yawn.
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