I was mad at him for lying, too. I wanted him to just come out and say, “yeah, you damn right she did, and it felt good, too!”

Millions were wasted to impeach a man who was having an affair. Meanwhile billions have been spent killing innocent people (and some not-so-innocent), we were lied to bald-faced as to why, and “Precinct Committeeman” comes on a blog with a couple of legal briefs to explain why a hummer is worse than a war. Fucking amazing.

Bill Clinton’s memoirs reveal he lied to grand jury

This is actually non-news, because we all know that Bill Clinton lied about everything related to his sex life. But since I like to cover political sex scandals, and the Bill Clinton Monica Lewinski relationship is the mother of all political sex scandals, it deserves a mention in the blog.

And I might add that this sex scandal produced the Starr Report, the most entertaining document ever created in the history of the United States government. It was well worth all the taxpayer money used to produce it.

According to today’s Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59217-2004Jun21.html

Clinton’s own legal battle with independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr accounts for one of the book’s more peculiar revelations. In his August 1998 grand jury testimony, Clinton said he began an inappropriate sexual relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky in “early 1996.” His testimony, as was widely noted at the time, was in conflict with Lewinsky’s story: She testified the relationship began on Nov. 15, 1995, in the midst of a government shutdown.

Starr’s prosecutors, in their report to Congress, accused Clinton of lying about the date of their relationship in order to avoid admitting that he had sexual relations with an intern, as Lewinsky still was in the fall of 1995 before being hired for a paying job in the winter.

Without explanation, in his memoir Clinton departs from his grand jury testimony and corroborates her version: “During the government shutdown in late 1995, when very few people were allowed to come to work in the White House, and those who were there were working late, I’d had an inappropriate encounter with Monica Lewinsky and would do so again on other occasions between November and April, when she left the White House for the Pentagon.”

And there you have it. Clinton said one thing to the grand jury, and another thing in his book. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Just a little perspective.

From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[CITE: 18USC1623]

TITLE 18–CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I–CRIMES

CHAPTER 79–PERJURY

Sec. 1623. False declarations before grand jury or court

(a) Whoever under oath (or in any declaration, certificate,
verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under
section 1746 of title 28, United States Code) in any proceeding before
or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States knowingly
makes any false material declaration or makes or uses any other
information, including any book, paper, document, record, recording, or
other material, knowing the same to contain any false material
declaration, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
five years, or both.
(b) This section is applicable whether the conduct occurred within
or without the United States.
(c) An indictment or information for violation of this section
alleging that, in any proceedings before or ancillary to any court or
grand jury of the United States, the defendant under oath has knowingly
made two or more declarations, which are inconsistent to the degree that
one of them is necessarily false, need not specify which declaration is
false if–
(1) each declaration was material to the point in question, and
(2) each declaration was made within the period of the statute
of limitations for the offense charged under this section.

From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[CITE: 18USC1623]

TITLE 18–CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I–CRIMES

CHAPTER 79–PERJURY

Sec. 1623. False declarations before grand jury or court

(a) Whoever under oath (or in any declaration, certificate,
verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under
section 1746 of title 28, United States Code) in any proceeding before
or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States knowingly
makes any false material declaration or makes or uses any other
information, including any book, paper, document, record, recording, or
other material, knowing the same to contain any false material
declaration, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
five years, or both.
(b) This section is applicable whether the conduct occurred within
or without the United States.
(c) An indictment or information for violation of this section
alleging that, in any proceedings before or ancillary to any court or
grand jury of the United States, the defendant under oath has knowingly
made two or more declarations, which are inconsistent to the degree that
one of them is necessarily false, need not specify which declaration is
false if–
(1) each declaration was material to the point in question, and
(2) each declaration was made within the period of the statute
of limitations for the offense charged under this section.

Know anybody whom this could appy towards?

Funny how all the Republicans who were running an inquisition against Bill Clinton seem to have dropped their rhetoric about government corruption, big spending and overreaching powers once Bush, Inc. took office and made Janet Reno look like an anarchist by comparison. That’s what drove me out of that party.

Emtronics – I was placing my bets on a meteor. Unfortunately, as we’ve discovered, God is cruel and unjust. I’m with Elaine, though. Wonderboy’s campaign ought to pay for the all the manpower that was required to secure their event. Amazing how the cons are so eager to decry all things “public” in favor of all things private, yet didn’t hire, say, Blackwater to do their security. Hypocrites!

Oh well, only to hope.