Clinton Impeachment Inquiry Is Sought
One of President Clinton’s most persistent critics in Congress has asked the House Judiciary Committee to consider opening an impeachment inquiry.
Rep. Bob Barr, a second-term Georgia Republican and former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, made his request in a three-page letter this week to Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.), the committee’s chairman.
“There is no question in my mind that the alarming pattern of abuse of the political process by this White House is unprecedented,” Barr said in a statement Friday.
Sam Stratman, a spokesman for Hyde, said the chairman had received the letter and would answer Barr “in due course.”
The White House had no immediate comment.
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