It was NOT about "private and personal matters of a sexual nature". It was about a completely separate investigation which presented itself during the course of the Whitewater debacle (as investigations of that magnitude sometimes do).
And he lied about it. And something did come of it. He was impeached and disgraced, barred from practicing law. He's lucky that's all that happen to him. If he would have been found guilty of the sexual assault charges that were facing him, he could have gone to jail and would forever have to register as a sexual predator where ever he lived. And he did have to pay reparations to Paula Jones for the legal expenses she incurred, after losing the civil suit she filed against him.
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Do you remember who you talked to last week and EXACTLY what was said during the course of the conversation? I didn't think so. The prosecutor in that case (Fitzgerald) knew almost from the start that Libby was not the person who "outed" the "un-outable" Valerie Plame (Richard Armitage is the one who did it, by the way...get your facts straight). I say "un-outable" because she was NOT a covert agent at the time nor had she been one for several eyars, nor was she working active cases. Nor was it a huge secret that she worked for the CIA, as her husband, Joe Wilson (no relation, thank God) himself has admitted revealing who employed her on more than one occasion.
And Libby wasn't pardoned...he had his jail sentence commuted, but still has to do his probation and pay his fine ($225,000). Not nearly as much of a fine as Marc Rich paid to have the charges against him wiped clean (over $1,000,000 "donated" by Marc Rich's ex-wife to Clinton's library) or the political capital reaped by pardoning the 4 Hasidic Jews (who just happened to be from a town in Hillary's senatorial district). And by the way, every Republican that I've seen or read about since the commutation has said the same thing...that it was the right thing to do.
Your logic that President Bush lied about the reasons for going to war are flawed also...as one who works in that field (chemical and biological weapons remediation for the Department of the Army), I can tell you unequivocally that there were MASSIVE amounts of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq right up to around 1999 when the United Nations inspection teams were thrown out. All the evidence points to the fact that his weapons of mass death were, indeed, moved prior to the war starting.
Now, read the next line "v e r y s l o w l y"...CIA, MI5, Mossad, KGB, Saudi intelligence...etc, etc, etc) ALL said the same thing. Clinton could have easily gone in with a military response to the breaking of the UN resolutions and not a soul would have had a second thought. But I guess he was too busy whupping up on that distinct threat to the freedom and security of the United States, Slobodan Milosevic...boy, he showed him, didn't he!!!???
And, while it's true that there was virtually no attack on AMERICAN soil during the period between 1993 and 2001, you are wrong by saying that we were terror attack free during that time...Oklahoma City (200 plus, in response to his justice department's ineptitude at Waco), Somalia (18 good men, Saudi Arabia (Khobar Towers, 19 good men, 7 of whom were my friends), Kenya, Tanzania and Yemen (17 good men) come to mind right off the top of my head...the gap here on US soil was due to logistical planning on the part of the foreign terrorists than it was to William Jefferson Clinton doing a single thing about it.....
Chris Wilson
White Marsh, Maryland
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