If only Clinton had had Condi and and Ari and Rummy on his team...

Clinton's tactics all wrong

DAVID ROSSIE Commentary
Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin
July 27, 2003

If only Bill Clinton had had the right people around him back in 1998 he might have escaped impeachment and the taxpayers would have been spared part of the $70 million plus bill that Ken Starr, the pious pornographer, ran up trying to hang him.

Try to imagine:

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, appearing on CBS' Face The Nation yesterday, said the president was technically correct in saying: "I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," even though he later admitted that he did.

"It's obsessive to focus on those nine words," Ms. Rice told Bob Schieffer, "when there is so much more to the story. People trying to make a mountain out of this molehill have been quick to assume that the president initiated this incident, which may or may not have happened, I might add.

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Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, appearing on Meet the Press, told host Tim Russert that intelligence sources, which he declined to identify for national security reasons, had assured him that Lewinsky was not even in Washington on the days that she and the president were alleged to have been together, and that her claims -- and those of her friend Linda Tripp -- to the contrary had been passed on by British intelligence sources to CIA Director George Tenet, who failed to verify them.

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http://www.pressconnects.com/sunday/opinion/stories/op072703s18613.shtml

nice.

;-)