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In reply to the discussion: Monica Lewinsky made a poor choice when she had sex with a married man. [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,406 posts)It could have been anything that he did that she wanted not to go public. I did not mean to say that something definitely was done, just that Bill Clinton's actions made it possible for her to blackmail him for what she wanted.
Back in the days of the Cold War, a major politician putting themselves in a compromising position would have been thought to have been treasonous if said situation had involved someone from a communist country.
You are correct in that I guess I should have included a disclaimer in my original post, or included possible other examples. Perhaps the jury that judged the post felt that as it was only an example, and not an out-and-out charge, it didn't need to be censored.
I'm pro-Israel, and while I think that Bill Clinton looked after Israel's well being sufficiently, I hope that all actions he took were because they were the best thing to have done at the time, and not because of reasons related to scandal. I can't conclusively say that with regard to his involvement with the war with Yugoslavia.