Thomas Kirby contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1998 and 1999, writing about legal and constitutional issues. His articles focused on witness testimony and perjury, topics closely tied to the impeachment proceedings of that era.
HENRY HYDE and the other House managers who are prosecuting the Clinton impeachment are on solid ground in demanding the right to present live testimony. Trial evidence does not merely establish the facts, it draws the jurors into the story and gives them the moral resolve to do what the facts…
BESIDES FINDING NEW DEPTHS OF MEANING in the words is and alone, President Clinton has enlivened public discourse with his distinction between legally accurate and true. "Legally accurate" is his euphemism for testimony that is not false in the sense required for a perjury conviction. Thus, the…