Any of you old time FReepers want to fill us in on FReeper involvement that helped to lead to Clinton's Impeachment?
Posted on 12/19/2017 2:21:29 PM PST by PROCON
After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.
In November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. That summer, she first confided in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her sexual relationship with the president. In 1997, with the relationship over, Tripp began secretly to record conversations with Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky gave Tripp details about the affair.
In December, lawyers for Paula Jones, who was suing the president on sexual harassment charges, subpoenaed Lewinsky. In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president, Lewinsky filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual relationship with him. Five days later, Tripp contacted the office of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, met with Lewinsky again, and on January 16, Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with the prosecution. A few days later, the story broke, and Clinton publicly denied the allegations, saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”
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Any of you old time FReepers want to fill us in on FReeper involvement that helped to lead to Clinton's Impeachment?
Heard a recording of the WKSU (Kent State) folk music show from that day—host Jim Blum spoke of “this awful day on our nation’s history”
Heard a recording of the WKSU (Kent State) folk music show from that day—host Jim Blum spoke of “this awful day on our nation’s history”
But it’s OK for this creep to get by with sexual issues and for everyone else to have to resign when accused whether there’s evidence or not.
Memory Lane Ping.
There were a ton of 1998 threads that would make fascinating reading today, but they have long been “archived” and are, in all probability, now lost.
As all the heads at PBS CNN NBC Miramax and on and on told us what’s the big deal everybody does it!!!!
I was hoping someone would post the “How Would He Vote” ad that FR ran in the Washington Times on the day before the House voted on impeachment.
It’s when I started reading FR.
I’m surprised that none of the Congressmen accused of sexual indiscretions hasn’t brought out the line used by every Clinton enabler back then.
“It’s all just about sex. Now let him get back to doing the business of the people.”
Don’t tell me let me guess. It was a pole tax.
Like a screen door in a hurricane
And the top headline news on CNN that day... ‘United States bombs Iraq.’
Fake news created by a President ordering the bombing of a foreign country of the very day his impeachment was voted for in the congress, to change the subject and as they say ‘wag the dog’.
The same day my dear Irish grand mother passed...
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