The most insidious conduct of all has been that of House Republicans who seek to overthrow the Democratic Government of the United States, by impeachment of the President having nothing whatever to do with the rule of law. The President's conduct sought to protect his constitutional privacy in a proceeding that was determined by a Federal Judge to be entirely without legal merit. At worst, this conduct was also intended to protect the President from personal embarrassment over his sexual affair with White House intern, Monica S. Lewinsky. No office of the Federal Government, and no proceedings therein is in any remote way designed to be a Sex Cop supervising consensual sexual acts of Federal officials. The attempt to compel sworn testimony concerning such matters, which are shown to be without legal merit and solely for purposes of embarrassing Federal officials, is unconscionable.
Federal officials are immune from prosecution and harassment under such ill-founded claims.
Why lawyers for the President were unable to protect him from this devastating outrage has yet to be explained. It is morally reprehensible and political suicide to place the President of the United States, or other public officials under such catastrophic risks as have been demonstrated here. The overwhelming weight of constitutional authority brought to light by liberal and conservative scholars alike during the House impeachment proceedings confirms that only the use of Presidential power to harm the nation is subject to exercise of the impeachment authority. The wrongful acts of the President, however these may be described, were personal and obviously not intended to harm the nation. On the contrary, the President has continued throughout the ordeal to serve the nation with honor, distinction, and a high degree of public acclaim, both domestic and global The overwhelming majority of Americans have the common sense to understand that the President's acts clearly involved no impeachable offence by any exercise of the rule of law.