NATION/WORLD
Conservative
Clinton critic,
admits afair
Idaho Rep. Chenoweth
admits to extramarital affair
The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 11, 1998 - 5A
What constitutes
impeachment?
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- For the second
time in a week, a right-wing Republican
tic of President Clinton has admitted
.Wan afhir, in what may be the beginning
o a stream of confessions prompted by
the Monica Lewinsky case.
The confession came from Rep.
Ijlen Chenoweth, who was forced to
.g public by The Idaho Statesman
atler she committed what proved to
be a tactical error: demanding
Clinton's resignation and declaring in
a campaign commercial, "I believe
at personal conduct and integrity
does matter."
"Fourteen years ago, when I was a
private citizen and a single woman, I
was involved in a relationship that I
came to regret, that I'm not proud of,'
Chenoweth, 60, told The Idaho
Sfatesman. "I've asked for God's for-
giveness, and I've received it."
Last week, another Clinton critic and
Republican hard-liner, Rep. Dan
Burton of Indiana, acknowledged
*thering a child during an extramarital
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months-long pattern of trying to derail the
Jones harassment lawsuit, sources said.
'Ihe meeting occurred around the time
there were growing signs that Jones'
lawyers were about to expand their case
,ther women, including former White
'rouse volunteer Kathleen Willey.
Willey would later go public with
.allegations that the president made an
unwanted sexual advance in the Oval
Office. She was subpoenaed by Jones'
lawyers two weeks after Clinton met
with Lewinsky
In the July 14 meeting, about 9:30
p.m., Clinton initiated a discussion with
Lewinsky about reaching out to her
friend Linda Tripp, to whom Willey had
*nfided the alleged episode, sources
farmiliar with the meeting say.
,The two noted that Tripp had been try-
alTair in the early 1980s.
"if you are going to throw stones and
you live in a glass house, expect the
glass house to be broken," said
University of Virginia political scientist
Larry Sabato. "I'm worried that we're
going to have an interminable national
Jerry Springer show."
Democrats have been warning for
months that those who pursue the
Lewinsky case run the risk that their
own peccadilloes will be exposed.
"What this tells you is that
Republicans who are trying to gain
political capital out of the president's
problems better look in the rear-view
mirror before attacking their
Democratic opponents," said Dan
Sallick, a spokesperson for the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee. He said Chenoweth "dis-
played sheer hypocrisy.
Chenoweth campaigned on family
values and first got elected in 1994
after it was disclosed that her opponent
had had an affair.
ing to reach presidential confidant Bruce
I indsey for some time to tell him a
reporter was inquiring about Willey.
Clinton suggested Lewinsky persuade
Tripp to get in touch with Lindsey again,
and over the next several days he made
several follow-up phone calls to see
where matters stood, the sources said.
About the same time, Clinton also
acted on a long-standing request by
lewinsky that he help her get a job back
at the White House. She had been trans-
ferred to the Pentagon in 1996 by aides
suspicious of her behavior, and Clinton
finally asked presidential personnel aide
Marsha Scott in summer 1997 to see if
there was a job she could find for the for-
mer intern, the sources said.
Lewinsky was never brought back to
the White House, though.
ihe White House scoffed at any sug-
gestions that the contacts had anything
to do with obstructing justice.
L^s AnogeesTanes
WASHINGTON-Abuse of power is
such a legally vague term that almost no
one could be convicted of it in court. Yet
abuse of power was the basis ofan article
of impeachment against President Nixon
and is believed to be a charge leveled
against President Clinton in the not-yet-
released report by independent counsel
Kenneth Starr.
Even though the Constitution speaks
of "treason, bribery or other high crimes
and misdemeanors" as grounds for
impeachment, accusations against a chief
executive need not even be criminal
offenses because, according to legal
scholars, impeachment of a president is a
hybrid process mixing politics and policy
with the law.
"Abuse of power can be any outra-
geous, abusive conduct or any behavior
that is inconsistent with the high office of
president, even noncriminal conduct,"
said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at
George Washington University.
But Turley, a former Justice
Department official and Clinton critic,
added that Starr surely has included felo-
nious conduct as well in his report to
Congress, crimes such as perjury, witness
tampering and obstruction of justice.
While Clinton's supporters have
argued that Congress should not dwell on
lurid details of his sexual encounters with
Monica Lewinsky, a relationship both
have acknowledged, Turley contended
that "only the details will reveal whether
perjury was committed by Clinton.
"Starr's obligation is to convey to
Congress every criminal act this presi-
dent may have committed," he said.
The wide latitude for impeachable
offenses is deeply rooted in American
history. Scholars say that those who
wrote the Constitution believed they
needed a mechanism, as James Madison
phrased it, for "defending the communi-
ty against the incapacity, negligence or
perfidy" of the nation's highest official.
But neither did they wish to make a pres-
ident subject to removal because of con-
gressional pique or whim.
AP PHOTO
President Clinton apologizes for engaging in an "inappropriate" relationship with
Monica Lewinsky at a Democratic fundraiser in Florida on Wednesday.
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