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>Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi Terry
>Did you watch the interview with Susan McDougal?
I have seen two. I have posted a description of the horrendous conditions
under which she has been held.
>I don't know where you got your information, but she said that the only way
she >could walk out was to tell the story the way Starr wanted her to--not
to agree >to testify, but to testify the way he wanted.
This is pure bull. What sort of tyranny do you suppose we live in? In fact
Starr could offer inducements to testify as Susan still has a little matter
of embezzlement hanging over her plus remaining time from her Whitewater
conviction.
McDougal was jailed for contempt of court. It was used only as a means of
compelling testimony. It could never be used to force perjury.
>She said if she did that and testified the way Starr wanted the story that she
>would be open to perjury, not open to perjury for telling the truth.
She has said over and over that Starr would charge her with perjury if she
told the truth. There is no way anyone can be held in jail for not telling
a story a prosecutor wants them to tell. She could, of course, be
prosecuted for lying even if she told the truth. But even if that were true
and she were convicted the punishment would be less than what she has
already suffered for refusing to testify at all.
>Hi Sue: I don't think Susan can do anything as she was a witness for
Whitewater, I
>think. Did she have anything to do with the Paula Jones fiasco?
>
>jackief
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>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>> Hi Sue,
>>
>> >Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> >If this whole thing goes down the tubes would Susan McDougal have any
>> >grounds for a law suit. She was held in jail for refusing to say what
>> >Starr wanted her to say,
>>
>> Totally untrue. This is nonsense. Susan McDougal could have opened the
>> cell doors at any time she wanted. All she needed to do was agree to
>> testify - and do so.
>>
>> She claimed that testifying truthfully would open her to charges of perjury.
>> But perjury, like any other charges, have to be proven. She was willing to
>> spend 18 months under horrible conditions to avoid a perjury conviction (for
>> telling the truth yet) that would like entail no jail time? Make sense
to you?
>>
>> Susan McDougal was caught between Starr and Clinton. Either Clinton had
>> offered her inducements or she was frightened of implicating him. You tell
>> me what other possible reason there was for her actions.
>>
>> although she did say over and over that she
>> >didn't know of any wrong doing.
>> >
>> >I know I am stretching with this but I was just wondering. :)
>> >
>> >Sue
>> Best, Terry
>>
>> "Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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