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Summary: tying up all the loose ends
Comment: finally an objective perspective on the scandal that consumed a nation...Toobin writes
thriller-style and keeps the reader in rapt attention. By using a chronology and cast of characters,
he makes it easy to see how the entire debacle unfolded..no one is a hero...he makes no excuses
for the president's behavior..and no excuses for the less than lackluster performance of the Starr
troopers...

excellent read..regardless of what you believe, it's a real page turner

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Summary: He was impeached for WHAT?
Comment: Well, all the media hype is almost over. CNN can't run any more tape of Monica in her beret.
Watergate came to nothing. Filegate came to nothing. Travelgate came to nothing. And what did
Kenneth Starr come up with? Well, that psalm-singing guy, the little boy who used to like
shoe-polishing as a hobby grew up to spend 75 million dollars on a sex scandal. That's right--he
coudn't find anything else, and so he used an illegal wiretap to set a trap for Pres- ident
Clinton, who had had a messy, unfortunate affair with a young intern. And that's it, folks. That's
what the big deal was. The President engaged in a private, consensual sex act with a woman, and
for that his wild-eyed enemies spent 75 million dollars and started a failed impeachment. Amazing.
Well, this book is fair and balanced, but it won't stop the Clinton haters. "Oh-h-h-h, he lied,"
they say, when they know that all humans are fallible, and that President Clinton's sins, though
wrong, are hardly the stuff of high crimes and misdemeanors. Read this book. It will tell you the
truth, if it's truth you're after. Here is one of the last lines from Toobin's book: "Mostly,
though , ...baffled future citizens will struggle with the same question about Bill Clinton. He
was impeached for WHAT?" Enough said.

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Summary: Conspiracy:
Comment: Partisan or Fact:

Fact! This shows the extreme to which the right wing, so called Religious
Zealots will go to. The question is, who's next? You or me. Give power to these zealots and who
knows what will become of our Country. They would take away our right to choose which Religion to
belong to, while critizing everyone but themselves. Where does their money and power come from?
Why so secretive? Why not have the Government open their books. Scrutinize their private lives as
they have others while using the Bible to hide under. I wonder how the Republicans can explain away
their own actions during this time, as we now know through news reports about their own private
lives. There should be a lesson learned here, but somehow i think power will always be their
aphrodisiac. The wise men in Washington? They certainly aren't in the Congressional Majority.

Great Book Esq. Toobin. Thank you for honest, unbiased writing.

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Summary: the vast conspiracy
Comment: Toobin's insights into some of the "players" were interesting. Other than that, it was a re-run of
everything we heard and saw during the whole dismal affair.

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Summary: The title tells the tale
Comment: It is admirable that Toobin give his book a title that clarifies the quality of its thinking: The
phrase "A Vast Conspiracy" unwittingly reflects and perfectly captures the McCarthyism of the
Clinton defense. A host of false accusations against the independent counsel (which have been
proven both in court and in other books on the Clitnon crimes--we now know that the leaks that the
Clinton team accused Starr of came from the Clinton team itself) and others. The projection of
one's own actions onto one's enemies. The constant use of false testimony. The "list"--it was the
Clinton defender Larry Flynt who said he "had a list of 11 names." The use of the political party
to launch retaliatory prosecutions--the Democratic party of Maryland and the United States,
ordering the prosecution of an immunized witness. And, of course, the accusation of a "vast
conspiracy" that, surprise, doesn't and never did exist.

When a governor and president is as
careless, venal, and contemptuous of the law as Clinton has been throughout his career, it doesn't
take a vast conspiracy to bring his crimes to light. Far from showing the connections between the
dots, Toobin does what conspiracy nuts have always done: Smeared dozens of people with false
accusations and gulled fellow true believers by positing vast webs of tendentious and vaporous
connections.