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Page 8 • Thursday, February 4, 1999
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate
Democrats threatened on
Wednesday to turn President
Clinton’s im
peachment trial
into a party battle
if the Republi
cans go through
with plans to
vote on a declara
tion of wrongdo
ing before decid
ing his fate.
As House GOP
democratic senators, Clinton smadowashingt
said W
CLINTON
prosecutors questioned the third of
three witnesses in the case, Demo
cratic leader Tom Daschle said his
party’s rank-and-file lawmakers
were solidly opposed to any live
trial testimony on the Senate floor.
He also raised objections to the
immediate public release of Monica
Lewinsky’s videotaped deposition.
But what sparked the Democ
rats’ sharpest criticism was a GOP
proposal for a formal finding of
wrongdoing, a measure that
would require a simple majority
for passage rather than the two-
thirds needed for conviction on
impeachment.
“If Republicans persist in de
manding live witnesses and de
manding more depositions and
demanding extra legal devices
like findings of fact, the more it
becomes a Republican trial,’’
Daschle told reporters.
The White House also re
newed its objections to the pro
posal, at the same time
spokesperson Joe Lockhart
pledged a restrained response if
— as expected — Clinton is ac
quitted on the two articles of im
peachment.
“I now declare in a post-im
peachment era, this is a gloat-free
zone,’’ he said.
Republican senators met pri
vately late in the day, pondering
their next moves in the trial,
which is scheduled to resume
Thursday.
John Czwartacki, a spokesper
son for Majority Leader Trent Lott
told reporters he expected a vote
at that time on a proposal to re
lease the depositions of Lewinsky
and two other witnesses, both the
written transcripts and the video
tapes.
He suggested they could re
main under seal for a limited pe
riod of time.
For their part, House prosecu
tors met to weigh the results of
the three depositions.
They said an attempt would be
made to have witnesses testify in
the Senate in person.
But GOP aides conceded it
would be difficult to secure
enough votes to prevail on that is
sue, particularly with public
opinion in favor of a swift end to
the proceedings.
The Democratic maneuvering
came as Sidney Blumenthal, a
White House aide, was ques
tioned in a heavily secured room
in the upper reaches of the Capi
tol.
A source familiar with the de
position, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said Blumenthal re
peated the testimony he had giv
en a grand jury last year concern
ing a conversation he had had
with Clinton about the president’s
relationship with Lewinsky.
The president lied to him, Blu
menthal said.
Presidential friend Vernon Jor
dan and Lewinsky submitted to
depositions earlier in the week as
prosecutors probed for informa
tion that could buttress their case
against the president.
White House lawyers also at
tended the depositions but gave
no indication they heard any rev
elations that caused them alarm.
Clinton is accused of perjury
and obstruction of justice for at
tempting to conceal his sexual re
lationship with Lewinsky.
Republicans have been work
ing in recent days on a “finding
of fact’’ that would formally de
clare that Clinton had “willfully
provided false and misleading
testimony’’ to Independent Coun
sel Kenneth Starr’s grand jury.
The draft document also al
leges the president engaged in a
course of conduct designed to
“alter, delay, impede, cover up
and conceal the existence of evi
dence and testimony’’ in the sex
ual harassment lawsuit that Paula
Jones filed against him.
The document does not allege
he committed perjury or ob
structed justice, but Democrats
attacked it sharply during the day
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