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[[Kenneth Starr]], the special prosecutor in the case, pursued the matter.  

[[Kenneth Starr]], the special prosecutor in the case, pursued the matter.  

Clinton became the second sitting president to be impeached by the US House of Representatives. During his second term Clinton was accused of perjury in connection to the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.  Clinton advisor and close confidant [[George Stephanopoulos]] said publicly that there would be a "scorched-earth policy' if Clinton were impeached. <ref>[http://www.alamo-girl.com/02742.htm Insight Magazine], J Michael Waller, 6/19/00.</ref> During the Impeachment Trial, pornographer [[Larry Flynt]], an old friend of Clinton advisers [[James Carville]] and [[Strobe Talbott]], offered a $1 million reward publicly for any information about members of Congress personal lives that could be used for blackmail.  The US Senate voted to acquit him. Clinton previously had decried "politics of personal destruction." they have made promiscuous use of it. <ref>[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/weekly/standard072299.asp Bill Clinton, Historian], Peter Wehner, Jewish World Review July 22, 1999.</ref>  

During his second term Clinton was accused of perjury in connection to the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit.  Clinton advisor and close confidant [[George Stephanopoulos]] said publicly that there would be a "scorched-earth policy" if Clinton were impeached. <ref>[http://www.alamo-girl.com/02742.htm Insight Magazine], J Michael Waller, 6/19/00.</ref> Clinton became the second sitting president to be impeached by the US House of Representatives, but the Senate voted to acquit him. Clinton previously had decried the "politics of personal destruction." <ref>[http://www.jewishworldreview.com/weekly/standard072299.asp Bill Clinton, Historian], Peter Wehner, Jewish World Review July 22, 1999.</ref>  

Clinton lost his law license in Arkansas for perjury before a Federal Judge.

 

Clinton lost his law license in Arkansas because he had committed perjury before a Federal judge.

It was during this scandal that Clinton famously stated: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/21/newsid_2525000/2525339.stm</ref>.

It was during this scandal that Clinton famously stated: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/21/newsid_2525000/2525339.stm</ref>.