[LilDarlin]

Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker and erstwhile Clinton nemesis, said on the Fox television network: “If Louis Freeh is prepared to swear on oath that he knows that President Clinton was asking foreign leaders for money . . . this has to be a criminal offence of the first order.”

If this is a criminal offense of the first order, what rank does lying to a Grand Jury hold?

[libstripper]

If this is a criminal offense of the first order, what rank does lying to a Grand Jury hold?

Not quite as high as this. According to Freh, Clinton directly extorted the Saudis for a bribe to take off the pressure for FBI interviews of the Khobar Towers perps. Bribery is one of the few enumerated constitutional grounds for impeachment. Perjury can only be argued to be as a "high crime" or "misdemeanor." We all say how the Senate used that as a way to avoid convicting him.

[ladyinred]

I think this is even worse than lying to the Grand Jury, don't you? Accepting money in return for ignoring their harboring of terrorists who killed our people? Kind of like how he and Al Gore accepted big money from the airline industry instead of making them comply with terrorist safety recommendations by their own commission!