On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 06:30:27PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
At 8:35 AM -0800 1/23/98, Jonathan Wienke wrote:
Has anyone else heard a "giant sucking sound" from the vicinity of the White House lately?
If that was an intentional pun, a good one.
But I had been marveling at how the Clinton troubles were being ignored by the Cypherpunks...I figured we were all so jaded about government and the criminals who flourish in Washington that there was no point in commenting on this latest revelation of corruption. (The apparent perjury, suborning perjury, and witness-tampering, not the affair with Lewinsky, however tawdry it was.)
It would have been interesting to see the whole process leading up to Clinton's resignation (next week?) pass without any discussion by us.
(Actually, I threw in an aside yesterday about "President Gore," but no one picked up on it.)
Personally, I think having a crippled and ineffective President is better than having an activist bozo President Gore, so I'm kind of hoping this whole affairs takes several more months to unwind.
Tim has missed the most important part of this whole episode: the fact that Linda Tripp was wearing a wire, and apparently working for the FBI. Think for a moment about the position this puts what's his name in -- you know, the guy who's name begins with an "F", who works for Janet Reno... In fact I am amazed that cp's in general haven't picked up on the potential significance of this. Think back to just a few short weeks ago, when Freeh and Reno had their little spat... What do you think about congressional resistance to wiretaps, in light of current events? -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html