"Defense-12.08.98" - читать интересную книгу автора (impeachment)

Submission by Counsel for President Clinton to the Committee on the Judiciary
of the United States House of Representatives

David E. Kendall Gregory B. Craig Charles F.C. Ruff Nicole K. Seligman
Special Counsel to Cheryl D. Mills Emmet T. Flood the President Lanny
A. Breuer Max Stier The White House Office of the White Alicia L.
Marti Washington, D.C. 20502 House Counsel Williams & Connolly The
White House 725 12th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20502 Washington,
D.C. 20005

December 8, 1998



PREFACE


In addition to the factual, legal and Constitutional defenses we present in thi
s

document, the President has asked us to convey a personal note: What the Presi
dent

did was wrong. As the President himself has said, publicly and painfully, "the
re is

no fancy way to say that I have sinned."


The President has insisted that no legalities be allowed to obscure the simple
moral

truth that his behavior in this matter was wrong; that he misled his wife, his

friends and our Nation about the nature of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.
He

did not want anyone to know about his personal wrongdoing. But he does want

everyone -- the Committee, the Congress and the country -- to know that he is

profoundly sorry for the wrongs he has committed and for the pain he has caused
his

family, his friends, and our nation.


But as attorneys representing the President in a legal and Constitutional