Bob Barr: “Every witness who appears before a grand jury has three options, count them, three, and only three. The witness can tell…”

“Every witness who appears before a grand jury has three options, count them, three, and only three. The witness can tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them God; they can assert a constitutional privilege against self-incrimination; or three, they can lie, they can mislead, and they can tell untruths. Despite being offered yet a fourth option, President Clinton chose option three. He lied. He misled. He told untruths. Even being afforded the unprecedented fourth option of submitting for the record a statement and referring to it some 19 times as opposed to answering questions truthfully and fully, the President's grand jury testimony on August 17, 1998, was replete, that is full of, lies, untruths and misleading statements; misleading in that he never admitted the truth of his relationship with a subordinate government employee; perjurious in that he refused to admit having taken steps to suborn perjury, that is, to cause Monica Lewinsky to testify untruthfully and in a misleading way before the court in the Paula Jones case; perjurious, misleading and untruthful in that he refused to admit the fact that, in return for her testimony or her silence, he sought the services of Vernon Jordan to provide a job, to find a job, to buy the silence of Monica Lewinsky; perjurious, misleading and false in that he refused to admit on a pattern of activity designed to thwart justice and keep the grand jurors f…”