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10 YEARS AGO - Clinton Admits to Lewinsky Relationship, Challenges Starr to End Personal 'Prying'
WASHPOST ^ | 8-18-08 | Baker and Harris

Posted on 08/18/2008 6:48:43 AM PDT by doug from upland

Clinton Admits to Lewinsky Relationship, Challenges Starr to End Personal 'Prying'

By Peter Baker and John F. Harris Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, August 18, 1998; Page A01

President Clinton acknowledged last night that he had an inappropriate relationship with onetime intern Monica S. Lewinsky and deceived the American people about it, but he defiantly challenged independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to stop "prying into private lives."

Seven months after he wagged his finger and sternly told a national audience that he did not have sex with "that woman," the president said during another live television address that he had not been candid because he wanted to protect himself and his family from embarrassment.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; impeachedx42; lewinsky
I'll go find the legal definition of sex used in the case. It is quite graphic, but according to her testimony, it was sex and he absolutely committed perjury. But impeachment was not about sex. It was about perjury and obstruction of justice.
1 posted on 08/18/2008 6:48:44 AM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland
he had not been candid because he wanted to protect himself and his family from embarrassment.

The term EPIC FAIL comes to mind.

2 posted on 08/18/2008 6:51:28 AM PDT by edpc (@#&!*$)
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To: doug from upland

Ten years? Has it really been a decade?..........My how time flies.................


3 posted on 08/18/2008 6:53:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: HAL9000

FROM ANOTHER WASHPOST ARTICLE:

Then, according to Lewinsky, the president touched her breasts with his hands and mouth and fondled her genitals. At one point, she believed he answered a telephone call, and as he spoke on the phone, she performed oral sex on him.
“I think he made a joke ... that he hadn’t had that in a long time.” the report quoted Lewinsky as saying.

“According to Ms. Lewinsky, the president touched her breasts and genitalia, which means his conduct met the Jones definition of sexual relations even under his theory,” Starr wrote. “On these matters, the evidence of the president’s perjury cannot be presented without specific, explicit and possibly offensive descriptions of sexual encounters.”


4 posted on 08/18/2008 6:55:47 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: doug from upland

USA TODAY ARTICLE - http://www.usatoday.com/news/special/starr/starr003.htm


5 posted on 08/18/2008 6:59:47 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: Red Badger
My how time flies

You could almost say the years have blown by.

Almost.

6 posted on 08/18/2008 6:59:54 AM PDT by edpc (@#&!*$)
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To: doug from upland

And the dems stood behind him 100%. These are the same idiots chanting “Bush lied”. Wonder what else the Clinton administration lied to us about.


7 posted on 08/18/2008 7:00:25 AM PDT by mouse1 (I'VE BEEN CALLED A REDNECK BIGOT AND I'M PROUD OF IT!!)
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To: Red Badger

Yes and the Clintons are still around.


8 posted on 08/18/2008 7:01:10 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: doug from upland
“I think he made a joke ... that he hadn’t had that in a long time.” the report quoted Lewinsky as saying.


9 posted on 08/18/2008 7:10:34 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: doug from upland

SEE PAGE 29 - http://books.google.com/books?id=BuVcXLIvY9MC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=what+was+legal+definition+of+sex+in+lewinsky+case&source=web&ots=VHbF859kCs&sig=hZb7UgeJ_I2gWMZOlXNeh36AS-8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result


10 posted on 08/18/2008 7:17:11 AM PDT by doug from upland (8 million views of HILLARY! UNCENSORED - put some ice on it, witch)
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To: doug from upland

LOLLL!


12 posted on 08/18/2008 8:53:39 AM PDT by BILL_C (Those who don't understand the lessons of history are bound to repeat them!)
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