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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:46:14 PST
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- From: Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
- Subject: Re: well, pardon me! Version 3
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- > >...
- > >Brett', let me ask you this. Let's assume that Clinton wins re-election and
- > >then Gore wins election. Towards the end of Clinton's second term, it
- > >gradually becomes clear that Clinton had pursued illegal activities. I am
- > >sure that if I wanted to sit down and think about a scenario that you
- wouldn't
- > >like, I could. But I don't, so you are going to have to imagine this! Not
- only
- > >does Clinton actively pursue some illegal activity but it's stupid as well.
- > >It gradually comes out that his people lied extensively to congress and that
- > >his policy actually hurt the US. Would you still be defending the upper
- > >people in his administration the way you are defending the Reagan/Bush
- people?
- > >Jonathan
- >
- > My beef is with Walsh's methods and not the targets. The guilty
- should
- > be held accountable, but the powers of the prosecution should not be
- unlimited.
- > Are we to have witch hunts or investigations?
- > The way in which Walsh has paraded anyone and everyone (and why didn't
- > he *start* with Weinberger if he is such a key player?) in a series of "make
- > something stick" show trials horrifies me. It would even if the target was
- > Clinton. We've regressed to "guilty until proven innocent".
- >
- OK. Fair enough. But since your arguments seem as though they are coming from
- Sen. Bob Dole's mouth, you'll have to forgive me if I think that you are being
- partisan about this! :-) I think Jamie answered this last paragraph well, if
- you have a series of figures to tackle, you start at the lowest and hope that
- they'll "roll over" on the upper figures. In this case, they didn't. So Walsh
- didn't have testimony from peons, he didn't have needed classified documents,
- he didn't have notes that he had asked for. The only thing that he really had
- left was lying to congress. Again, I believe that if his investigation hadn't
- been hampered at every turn, this would have been over sooner, would have cost
- less, we would have found out more, and the top people in the administrations
- involved would be convicted of what they had to be convicted of.
- > Brett'
- >
-