[ravingnutter]

On Jan. 19, 2001, the day before he left office, Clinton agreed to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license and his payment of a $25,000 fine to the Arkansas Bar Association. In exchange, Kenneth Starr's successor, Robert Ray, agreed to close the Whitewater probe, ending the threat of criminal liability for Mr. Clinton after he left office.

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[RonF]

Thank you. Probably a fitting penalty for lying under oath. I didn't support impeaching him on lying about getting a blow job in the Oval Office; it's personal business, not official business, and to my mind it never met the standard for "High crimes and misdemeanors". Now, if he'd lied about something having to do with his official duties, oh, say, like whether or not he's approved supplying arms to enemies of the U.S. in direct contravention of American law, that'd be another thing.

But still, there's no charges of crimes. And I still don't see what his sexual offenses had to do with the financial issues of Whitewater.