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Scrapbook A DASH TO THE EXITS The Lewinsky scandal has now produced its first and so far only resignation on principle. Incredibly, that resignation comes not from the White House but from the...
...Now, then...
...they shouted...
...Missing in action, for the most part, as they have been all too often in recent years...
...Treason Is The Reason...
...When the President continues to deny any liability for the sins he has confessed, this suggests that the public display of repentance was intended to avoid political disfavor...
...to: Personnel Dept., THE WEEKLY STANDARD, 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington, D.C...
...Engineers tend to be very logical...
...Dash argues that, by so testifying, Starr “violated [his] obligations under the independent counsel statute and . . . intruded on the power of impeachment...
...Raoul, an engineer from New Jersey who declined to give his last name, said he took a day off and left home at 5:00 A.M...
...Sam Dash, famous for his role as chief counsel to the Senate Watergate committee in 1974—and retained by Starr as ethics adviser these past few years—abruptly quit on November 20, the morning after the independent counsel testified before the House Judiciary Committee for 12 hours...
...Saddam Hussein] is a bad man...
...In other words, if the Judiciary Committee requests Ken Starr’s testimony, Ken Starr must testify...
...Judge Starr, Patriot,” read the posters...
...A serious opposition should rise to this level more often...
...And maybe a bit deluded, too...
...Not so the call for Clinton’s resignation from 32 prominent religious leaders organized by the Institute on Religion and Democracy (“A godly man will strive to avoid sin,” it read in part) or the remarkable public declaration of 74 prominent Christian theologians, published on a new Web site set up for the occasion, www.moral-crisis.org...
...HELP WANTED THE WEEKLY STANDARD has a full-time position available for an entry-level staff assistant...
...The same law charges an independent counsel with “the duty to cooperate with the exercise of such oversight jurisdiction...
...Code’s Title 28 explicitly grants the Judiciary Committee “oversight jurisdiction with respect to the official conduct of any independent counsel...
...In the background, a few curious Hill staffers peered down from the balcony of the Rayburn building...
...Whatever led Dash to resign, it cannot be a question of the independent counsel’s ethics...
...Scrapbook A DASH TO THE EXITS The Lewinsky scandal has now produced its first and so far only resignation on principle...
...While we affirm that pastoral counseling sessions are an appropriate, confidential arena to address these issues, we fear that announcing such meetings to convince the public of the President’s sincerity compromises the integrity of religion...
...We are convinced that forgiveness is a relational term that does not function easily within the sphere of constitutional accountability...
...Dash is wrong both as a matter of fact and as a matter of law...
...Probably two-thirds of the people here are engineers,” Raoul estimated...
...It’s regrettable that the president uses that kind of language...
...One of them, a middle-aged man in a kilt, played the bag pipes...
...Please send your r?sum...
...Good stuff...
...ENGINEERS FOR IMPEACHMENT Kenneth Starr doesn’t have many defenders these days, but there are some...
...During his November 19 testimony, Starr carefully and repeatedly declined to “advocate” or “recommend” impeachment, correctly reminding the Judiciary Committee that such decisions were Congress’s responsibility alone...
...Eric Cooper, a thirtyish defense contractor from Alexandria, said he had wandered over to the event on his lunch hour because “what’s more important than this...
...A wronged party chooses forgiveness instead of revenge and antagonism, but this does not relieve the wrongdoer of consequences...
...Otherwise, the silent majority remained remarkably silent...
...Incredibly, that resignation comes not from the White House but from the staff of independent counsel Kenneth Starr...
...Starr could not, however, decline to appear at all or refuse to defend his impeachment referral to Congress without running afoul of precisely the statute Sam Dash cited in his resignation...
...Here is an excerpt: “Many of us worry about the political misuse of religion and religious symbols even as we endorse the public mission of our churches, synagogues, and mosques...
...But McCain’s colleague Richard Lugar saw him and raised him one...
...An AP photographer took pictures...
...Inside, Starr was reading from his statement to the Judiciary Committee...
...to join the group, most of whom he had already met at the FreeRepublic.com Web site...
...There were a couple of notable exceptions, though...
...The document is both morally serious and subtly argued and deserving of a larger readership than it has gotten...
...Period...
...In a letter to Starr, Dash wrote, “You have no right or authority under the law, as independent counsel, to advocate for a particular position on the evidence before the Judiciary Committee or to argue that the evidence in your referral is strong enough to justify a decision by the Committee to recommend impeachment...
...Section 595(a) of the U.S...
...John McCain on ABC’s This Week pungently described the president’s hope that Saddam Hussein would behave this time as “boilerplate...
...No calls please...
...On Meet the Press, Lugar was asked about the use of ground troops to eliminate Saddam Hussein, and he didn’t flinch: “Yes, I think that probably will be inevitable,” he said...
...Last week, 15 of them gathered in front of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington...
...When will some high-level Clinton aide resign from the administration in protest of their top man’s (infinitely less debatable) criminal violations...
...The latter group, though divided on impeachment, came together to protest the “manipulation of religion and the debasing of moral language” in the Lewinsky affair...
...CLASH OF THE MANIA FESTOS The several hundred historians and law professors who ginned up manifestos supporting the president have received huge amounts of media coverage...
...OPPOSITION, FINALLY Where were the Republicans when Bill Clinton was allowing Saddam Hussein to humiliate the United States yet again...
...20036...
...We challenge the widespread assumption that forgiveness relieves a person of further responsibility and serious consequences...
...Impeach, For The Children...
...Outside, on the sidewalk next to the cab stand, members of the Clinton Investigative Committee marched in place, brandished signs, and shouted anti-Clinton slogans...
...The public is with us...
...This is a clerical position working with the editorial staff...
...In particular we are concerned about the distortion that can come by association with presidential power in events like the Presidential Prayer Breakfast on September 11...
...About noon, the marchers gathered for a group picture, then began a cheer: “The public is with us...
...We fear the religious community is in danger of being called upon to provide authentication for a politically motivated and incomplete repentance that seeks to avert serious consequences for wrongful acts...
...The group stood outside for a couple of hours, and there were only a few black-helicopter moments (at one point, the cry went up, “Who shot Ron Brown...
Vol. 4 • November 1998 • No. 12
