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Senate Acquits President Clinton, Ending The Shortest Trial In HistoryFEBRUARY 16, 2001 · 08:31
Fifty-five hours of televised trial produced a not-guilty vote on two counts and no resolution at all on the perjury charge, which the Senate declined to consider, having agreed in advance not to. Both parties called it a victory. The president called it an excuse to behave badly and then went to work.
THE SENATE FLOOR. STILL, MOSTLY. THERE IS NO AURA ABOUT IT.
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THE SENATE FLOOR. STILL, MOSTLY. THERE IS NO AURA ABOUT IT.
WASHINGTON, February 16 -- The Senate acquitted President Clinton of perjury today and then declined, in the same afternoon, to consider the second charge against him, which it had promised in January to place outside the scope of the trial.
Fifty-five hours of testimony were televised, which is roughly one working week, and which produced a closing argument in which the president's lawyer described the question before the Senate as "about the meaning of the word sex."
The president has said, privately and repeatedly and with some energy, that he will now stop talking about it, and has been reported, publicly and repeatedly and with some energy, saying the opposite.
Corrections: none so far. Published items are never corrected, they are replaced,
and the replacement keeps the original in the archive, where nobody will look for it.
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BATHTUBINGFAIL
Joined: Nov 2003 · Posts: 233
· Bath (yes) · 2 minutes later
BATHTUBINGFAIL wrote:
Senate Acquits President Clinton, Ending The Shortest Trial In History i'm not saying it's a false flag i'm saying it's a very convenient flag. ask questions.
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GatesOfHell_No_Shutters
Joined: Mar 2001 · Posts: 1666
· Spokane, WA · an hour later
this was planned. i do not have to say who by. you already know. you have always known.
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the_government_knows
Joined: Aug 2001 · Posts: 3420
· Classified · same afternoon
wake up. actually do it this time, not figuratively.
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