Had the GOP manned the hell up and took their case to the public ala Reagan, no ‘secret evidence’ would have been needed. What the open truth was was plenty. They helped bury it.
“Had the GOP manned the hell up and took their case to the public ala Reagan, no ‘secret evidence’ would have been needed. What the open truth was was plenty. They helped bury it.”
Not least Special Prosecutor Ken Starr. He allowed the fig leaf of the Lewinsky scandal to be pulled over Clinton’s real crimes. He allowed it not just to take center stage, but to expand until it took up all the resources that should have been brought to bear on Clintstone’s real crimes—perjury, obstruction of justice, rape, murder, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
^^This^^ aka "Lindsey Graham"
A different sort of Peter Principle seems to explain the rise of Lindsey Graham to his position of political prominence/incompetence.