General Questions Who Says What?
General Questions Q. Why should I care about this? A. The allegations swirling around President Clinton could still cost him his job. Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating whether Clinton lied under oath about the nature of his relationship with former intern Monica S. Lewinsky, urged Lewinsky to lie under oath or in other ways obstructed justice in relation to evidence being gathered for the now-dismissed Paula Jones civil lawsuit. Starr is also checking the veracity of Clinton’s grand jury testimony on August 17. In polls taken in August, a majority of Americans said they don’t really care about Clinton’s sex life. They said they don’t think he should be removed from office, and they said that Starr should drop his investigation. But Starr is preparing a report to Congress containing evidence of what he is said to consider possible impeachable acts growing out of Clinton’s relationship with Lewinsky. There’s also a basic credibility issue: In January, Clinton
