The Impeachment of Clinton
Impeachment trial ends, but the conspiracy continues
By the Editorial Board, February 13, 1999
The vote to acquit President Clinton in the Senate impeachment trial was followed by a fusillade of self-congratulatory declarations, hymns to bipartisanship, compliments on the senators' sagacity and...
The Senate impeachment trial
Why are the Democrats pushing for a censure resolution against Clinton?
By Barry Grey, February 11, 1999
As the Senate trial of Bill Clinton enters its final hours, it is universally acknowledged that the ultimate vote will fall short of the two-thirds required to convict and remove him from office. But ...
US Senate debates impeachment behind closed doors
By Martin McLaughlin, February 11, 1999
It is fitting that the Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton should end with a debate behind closed doors, after the Republican majority blocked a move to open it to the public. From its inception ...
Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens fingers Clinton aide
By Martin McLaughlin, February 9, 1999
Saturday's proceedings in and around the Senate impeachment trial provided an instructive demonstration of the politics and principles of the milieu of ex-radicals and ex-Stalinists which sustains suc...
As Senate trial winds down, efforts intensify to cover up conspiracy against democratic rights
By Barry Grey, February 6, 1999
As the Senate impeachment trial limps toward a conclusion, the efforts of the White House and both the Republicans and Democrats are focused on finding a formula for bestowing constitutional legitimac...
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to address right-wing, pro-impeachment organization
By Barry Grey, February 5, 1999
The year-long impeachment campaign has lifted the lid on a political fact well known within the political and media establishment, but concealed from the American people--the intimate links between ex...
Nat Hentoff and the decay of American liberalism
By David Walsh, February 3, 1999
The Clinton impeachment crisis has put American liberals and radicals to the test, and they have been found largely wanting. Very few have been able to appraise the events in a serious and objective m...
Independent counsel threatens to indict Clinton
Starr sends a message: the political coup will continue
By Barry Grey, February 2, 1999
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has once again intervened into the Senate impeachment trial, leaking to the New York Times a report that he is considering seeking the indictment, trial and convictio...
In frame-up of Julie Hiatt Steele
Judge issues gag order sought by Starr
By Martin McLaughlin, February 2, 1999
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia issued a gag order January 29, requiring some evidence to be kept secret in the case of Julie Hiatt Steele, who is the target of frame-up charges brought by Ind...
Why these witnesses?
The racist and anti-Semitic subtext of the Senate impeachment trial
By Barry Grey, January 30, 1999
Why Sidney Blumenthal, Vernon Jordan and Monica Lewinsky?
Senate approves anti-democratic rules
Impeachment trial procedure violates due process
By the editorial board, January 30, 1999
There comes the time in any major political struggle when a correspondence begins to emerge between the goals of those waging the struggle and the means which they employ to achieve their ends. The ri...
Independent Counsel Starr presses attack on witnesses
Appeals court reinstates tax case against Webster Hubbell
By Barry Grey, January 29, 1999
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's relentless pursuit of recalcitrant witnesses was given a boost Tuesday by a Federal appeals panel, which reinstated Starr's criminal tax fraud case against Clinton ...
