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Impeachment Watch
House Judiciary Approves 3 Articles of Impeachment
The moving finger writes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Judiciary Committee is nearing the end of
its history-making votes to remove President Clinton from office,
setting the stage for a dramatic impeachment confrontation before all
435 lawmakers next week. Clinton said he would accept a censure.
Unbending despite Democratic attacks that never let up during a grueling
12-hour day, the Republican majority pushed three articles of
impeachment through the committee on Friday. Only Rep. Lindsey Graham,
R-S.C., cast a GOP vote against an article.
Today, the panel planned to take up a fourth article alleging abuse of
power -- and a censure proposed by Democrats as an alternative to
impeachment.
The abuse-of-power article could be revised by Republicans. Some GOP
committee members oppose language accusing Clinton of impeachable
offenses by asserting legal privileges during the investigation of his
affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The censure proposal was headed for defeat in the committee, but
Democrats and the White House are pushing Republican leaders for a vote
in the full House.
The House is set to convene next Thursday, with moderate Republicans
still holding the balance of power to determine whether the case goes to
the Senate for trial and the president's possible removal from office.
Clinton went before reporters Friday to apologize once again for
deceiving the public and his family. ``I am profoundly sorry for all I
have done wrong,'' he said. ``I would give anything to go back and undo
what I did.''
Several committee members watched Clinton on television, temporarily
leaving the proceeding in the room where three impeachment articles were
approved against Richard M. Nixon in 1974.
They saw Clinton tell the nation that should the House members
``determine that my errors of word and deed require their rebuke and
censure, I am ready to accept that.''
Minutes after Clinton finished, the committee voted, allowing Chairman
Henry Hyde, R-Ill., to make the simple but dramatic announcement that
``Article One is approved.''
The vote was 21-16 along strict party lines, for an article accusing the
president of perjury before a grand jury.
It was only the committee's third presidential impeachment vote in U.S.
history.
``This vote says something about us,'' Hyde said. ``It answers the
question, just who are we, and what do we stand for? Is the president
one of us or is he a sovereign?''
The second impeachment article, alleging that Clinton lied in a civil
deposition in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit, was approved
20-17. Graham, who cast the lone Republican ``no'' vote, said he opposed
the article because material on Ms. Lewinsky was not admitted in the
case.
Democrats saved some of their strongest attacks for the third article,
which accuses Clinton of obstructing justice by allegedly encouraging
Ms. Lewinsky to lie; coaching secretary Betty Currie about her own
testimony in the Jones case; concealing subpoenaed gifts and trying to
get Ms. Lewinsky a job in New York to keep her from testifying in the
lawsuit. The vote was 21-16.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the article didn't ``pass the giggle
test'' and that Republicans used ``outrageous leaps of logic'' in
interpreting the evidence.
Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the article ``almost gets into the
theater of the absurd'' and would convince Americans that the
Republicans ``are out to get'' the president.
Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., answering allegations that the search began months
before Ms. Lewinsky appeared on the Jones witness list, argued that the
job effort was a ``back-burner effort'' once it became clear that Ms.
Lewinsky might testify. At that point, Barr said, presidential friend
Vernon Jordan made the job search a top priority.
On the gift issue, Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C. said the evidence
demonstrated that Clinton ``must have been involved in a scheme'' to
conceal the presents he gave Ms. Lewinsky. Why else, he asked, would Ms.
Lewinsky turn them over to Clinton's ``trusted secretary, Betty
Currie.''
Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., pointed to a statement by chief
Republican investigator David Schippers that Mrs. Currie called Ms.
Lewinsky at 3:32 p.m. last Dec. 28 to make arrangements to pick up the
gifts that day.
But Delahunt noted that Ms. Lewinsky told the FBI that Mrs. Currie came
for the gifts about 2 p.m., an hour and a half before the call.
Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, responded, ``I suspect there may have been a
mistake there of an hour and a half by Ms. Lewinsky, and that is not
substantial.''
The Associated Press, Dec. 12, 1998
Impeachment Watch
Would Clinton Quit if Impeached?
Errors of word and deed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In silence, President Clinton turned his back and
left the reporter's question hanging -- Would he resign if impeached by
the House? -- in the twilight chill of the Rose Garden.
The door to the Oval Office held open for him, Clinton slipped back into
his private sanctuary. His dog, Buddy, was there as the president waited
to see if his latest apology could favorably alter his fate.
``I would give anything to go back and undo what I did,'' Clinton told
reporters hastily summoned to the garden Friday. ``I understand that
accountability demands consequences and I'm prepared to accept them.''
His 11th-hour appeal for a penalty less than impeachment was his most
dramatic move yet in the White House campaign to see the president
punished on his own terms by Congress and the nation.
``Should they determine that my errors of word and deed require their
rebuke and censure, I am ready to accept that,'' Clinton said.
``Meanwhile, I will continue to do all I can to reclaim the trust of the
American people and to serve them well.''
Having said his piece, the president turned his focus -- outwardly, at
least -- to the delicate business of diplomacy and prepared for this
weekend's trip to the Middle East with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
and their daughter, Chelsea.
``That is simply all I can do -- the work of the American people,'' the
president said.
His awkwardly timed four-day peace mission comes as advisers, Cabinet
members and allies scramble to figure their next move.
A senior presidential adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
the address did little good. Fence-straddling lawmakers, particularly
moderate Republicans, still want him to concede that he lied under oath.
Clinton was urged by some aides to do that Friday, ``but he wouldn't do
it,'' the adviser said. ``Not yet.''
Aides would not rule out yet another personal appeal from Clinton. ``You
could call it opening the bidding,'' one senior adviser said after
Friday's statement. It concluded just minutes before the first of three
House Judiciary Committee votes recommending Clinton's removal from
office for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Clinton mustered the full weight of presidential symbolism even as the
pages of his speech shook in his hands and he faced television cameras
without the phalanx of aides who would otherwise fill out the frame.
Before Clinton emerged alone from the Oval Office to deliver the
rehearsed statement, two junior-level aides fussed with a pair of flags
-- the Stars and Stripes and the navy-blue banner emblazoned with the
presidential seal -- and posed at the lectern to make sure they
perfectly framed the president's shoulders.
So fixed was Clinton's solemn, survey-the-scene gaze as he stepped
toward the microphone that he bumped his right shoulder into one of the
colonnade's thick white pillars.
Clinton's statement, which went no further than his earlier
acknowledgments that he ``misled'' people and committed ``errors of word
and deed,'' was intended to buy time by holding undecided House members
in line before the full House votes as early as next Friday.
Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., said he remains undecided on whether to vote
for impeachment but was disappointed that the president did not admit he
lied. ``It's time for this president to tell the truth,'' Tauzin said.
Some outside the White House, including congressional Democrats, have
suggested that Clinton accept a stiff fine in addition to censure. One
close adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the president
likely would be cool to the notion and almost certainly would not accept
a penalty exceeding the $300,000 penalty levied against House Speaker
Newt Gingrich in his ethics case. Mrs. Clinton is said to be balking at
a tough fine.
Other advisers say they believe Clinton would do what it takes to avoid
impeachment.
The Associated Press, Dec. 12, 1998
Impeachment Watch
Dolly Kyle Browning Sworn Declaration Presented to
the House Judiciary Committee on 12/11/98
Declaration Of Dolly Kyle Browning
For Submission to the United States House of Representatives
Committee on the Judiciary
In the Impeachment Proceedings of
William Jefferson Clinton
I, Dolly Kyle Browning, being duly sworn, hereby depose and say:
1. I am over eighteen (18) years of age, competent to testify, and have
personal knowledge of the matters set forth herein.
2. I am an attorney and have been licensed to practice law in the State
of Texas since 1977. I am a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, an honor
limited to one-third of ONE PERCENT of Texas lawyers. I am submitting
this Declaration and supporting exhibits to the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on the Judiciary because I could not live with
my conscience if I did not.
3. I have known our Honorable President William Jefferson Clinton since
I was 11 years old and he was 12. Apparently because of my lifelong
relationship with him, I was subpoenaed to testify in the case of Paula
Corbin Jones v. William Jefferson Clinton (hereinafter "the Jones
case"). When our Honorable President was informed that I had been
subpoenaed, he directed his lawyers to prepare and send to me a Motion
for a Protective Order and Motion to Quash the Subpoena Duces Tecum and
Notice of Deposition, along with a brief in support of that Motion. (See
Exhibit 1 attached hereto.) Those documents were sent to me with the
message that I should file them and not testify against Defendant
Clinton. I believed, however, that it was my civic duty to honor the
subpoena. I did testify, and I testified truthfully.
4. Perhaps because I know our Honorable President so well, and know so
much about him that he considers damaging, he lied about me and about
our relationship while testifying under oath in the Jones case. (See
Declaration of Dolly Kyle Browning in the Jones case, attached hereto as
Exhibit 2.) To support his lies, he offered into evidence a 3-page
memorandum in his own handwriting that contained blatant lies about me
and our relationship.
5. Further, to bolster his handwritten lies, the Honorable President
included the handwritten lies of a senior White House aide, Marsha
Scott. (See a copy of these handwritten notes, and a typed transcription
of them, attached hereto as Exhibit 3.)
6. On November 30, 1998, I was brought to Washington by investigators
for the Judiciary Committee, at their request and expense. After
questioning me extensively, they went to Hot Springs, Arkansas and
obtained affidavits in support of my testimony from a randomly chosen
list of impartial witnesses. These affidavits clearly support the
testimony I gave under oath in the Jones case, and they expose in part
the lies told by the Honorable President under oath in the Jones case.
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of other witnesses who could have
provided similar testimony. (See a copy of these affidavits attached
hereto as Exhibit 4.)
7. Judiciary Committee investigators requested that I return to
Washington this week to testify as a "live witness" to the lies, perjury
and obstruction of justice. I have been in Washington since Wednesday,
December 9, 1998, ready, willing and waiting to be called to testify.
The "leadership" of the Judiciary Committee apparently decided that my
testimony was not necessary for their purposes. In the meantime, I have
watched the Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings on television and
have listened to many members complain that there is no live witness to
testify about the lies and obstruction of justice, and no "proof" upon
which they could base a vote for impeachment.
8. I am a live witness, and I have incontrovertible proof that the
Honorable President William Jefferson Clinton lied under oath and
obstructed justice in an attempt to deny an American citizen, Paula
Corbin Jones, of her day in court. Although the Jones case has now been
settled, I have asked my attorneys to file a motion to hold the
Honorable President William Jefferson Clinton in criminal contempt for
the lies that he told under oath, and for the fraud that he perpetrated
upon a federal court.
9. While waiting to testify this week, I have listened to more than
enough testimony by legal scholars about the precise words of the
Constitution regarding impeachment. Some of it reminds me of the
convoluted thinking and word wrangling that has become a known trademark
of our Honorable President William Jefferson Clinton. As a lawyer, I
have also studied Constitutional Law. What I learned in grade school
civics class was more on point. The Founding Fathers of our country
wrote our Constitution to protect all of us from "tyranny." They fought
a War of Independence to escape "tyranny." No matter what words they
chose in writing the Constitution, their main goal was to produce a
document and a government that would be accepted by the people, for the
people, to protect us all from "tyranny."
10. When the President of the United States uses the power and prestige
of his office to influence the outcome in any court in this land, that
is tyranny. It is "breaking down the division and distribution of
governmental powers." It is an attack by the Executive Branch upon the
Judicial Branch of our government. That is the essence of tyranny.
11. As members of the Legislative Branch, you are in the unique position
of righting this wrong. I believe that many of you truly want to "vote
your conscience." But many of you have been deprived of vital
information that would make it an "informed" vote. You have been
deprived of information about the FBI files. You have been deprived of
information about campaign funds from China. You have been deprived of
information from me that is incontrovertible proof of obstruction of
justice.
12. You are left with testimony about Monica Lewinsky � a girl younger
than my own three daughters � who was blatantly used by the Honorable
President William Jefferson Clinton, and then discarded when she became
a political liability. What you have seen, read, and heard about this
should be enough to impeach, but many of you have demanded more. Here it
is. Many of you may have a vague, uneasy feeling that you are being used
for political purposes. You are right. Many of you are frustrated
because you know that there is more "proof" that is being officially
withheld from you. Right again.
13. This morning, I was very tempted to get on a plane and return to
Dallas without doing anything more. I could tell myself that I was
called here and I came. I was available to do my duty as a citizen. I
could wash my hands of this and avoid subjecting myself to the
retribution of those who would silence the truth about our Honorable
President William Jefferson Clinton.
14. Or, I could inform you about the lies and obstruction of justice
that I witnessed. As a citizen, a lawyer, and an officer of the court, I
can do no less. What you do with this information is up to you. The
Executive Branch has attacked the Judicial Branch. The Legislative
Branch may be duped into complicity.
15. Standing for the truth and for what is right may be a difficult
choice, but it is a choice that each of us must face many times in our
lives. As a daughter of a long-ago-buried United States Marine who
served his country in combat, I cannot possibly turn away in cowardice.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct. Executed on December 11, 1998 at Washington, DC.
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Amen.
Roads End
Kris
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