The judge in the Jones case has already ruled the president gave false testimony and fined him for civil contempt of court. The disciplinary committee of the Arkansas Supreme Court has also moved to revoke Clinton's law license. The issue for Ray is whether Clinton's conduct amounted to criminal conduct. Keith Ausbrook, senior counsel to Ray, declined comment about any grand jury activity, which is kept secret by law. The e-mail probe focuses on whether the White House concealed thousands of electronic messages sought by investigators.
Presidential aides deny wrongdoing.
The prosecutor declined to bring criminal charges in either case. An expert cautioned that empaneling a new grand jury is no guarantee that Ray will seek an indictment. It's merely a step in an investigation, not an indication an indictment would ever be approved by a grand jury or even presented to the grand jury,'' said John Douglass, a former prosecutor in the Iran-Contra scandal. At this stage in this particular investigation it would be highly unlikely for a new grand jury to receive any new information that had not already been considered at length by Ken Starr, the United States Congress and the prior grand jury,'' said Douglass, an expert in criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of Richmond. Ray, however, has made no secret he intends to weigh whether Clinton should be indicted.