Time: Fri Mar 14 18:48:21 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA24969; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 13:43:41 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:36:27 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: L&J: impeachment (fwd) <snip> > Washington Times > > Barr Seeks Impeachment Inquiry on Fund Raising > >The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has been asked to begin >an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore >amid accusations that a growing campaign-finance scandal has >compromised national-security interests and corrupted the country's >foreign-policy decisions. > >Rep. Bob Barr, Georgia Republican, made the request this week in a >three-page letter to Chairman Henry J. Hyde, challenging among other >things Mr. Clinton's use of the White House to "amass his political >campaign war chest" and Mr. Gore's ties to questionable fund raising >"on federal property and with federal resources." > >"The cumulative effect of such a series of systemic abuses >of the political process ... points precisely toward theories of >impeachment law invoked by this committee nearly 25 years ago in the >matter of President Nixon," Mr. Barr said. "Those same theories were >then, as they must be now, based on clear historical precedent, >considered explicitly by our Founding Fathers,that alone among >remedies to correct abuses of power or improper conduct by high public >officials, stands impeachment," he said.
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