Time: Fri Mar 14 18:48:21 1997
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:36:27 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: L&J: impeachment (fwd)

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>                        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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