Steve Buyer: “these issues about whether Ms. Lewinsky, in her statement, the President never explicitly told her to lie, the President…”

“these issues about whether Ms. Lewinsky, in her statement, the President never explicitly told her to lie, the President and Ms. Lewinsky did have a scheme to mislead and deceive the court through the use of cover stories and the proffer of a false affidavit. Why? Because Judge Susan Weber Wright in the sexual harassment lawsuit said that they could get into the evidence of his past sexual behavior. You see, Ms. Lewinsky's statements that no one told her to lie are not dispositive as to whether the President is guilty of obstruction. One need not directly command another to lie in order to be guilty of obstruction. One who proposes to another that the other lie in a judicial proceeding is guilty of obstructing justice. The statute prohibits elliptical suggestions as much as it does direct commands. Indeed, the facts cannot be taken in a vacuum. They must be examined in their proper context over the distance of the evidence. While Ms. Lewinsky and the President both testified 'I never asked her to lie' and 'he never asked me to lie,' the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming.”