美国犯罪故事 第三季

政客：Politicians are full of lies and crap. 政客口中无真相。克林顿对sexual affair的含义以及对“is”的时态所代表的语义的诡辩，避重就轻地回答，更觉其道貌岸然。但人非圣贤（所有试图塑造单个政党或人物无条件合理性的行为均应属徒劳），在不考虑是否滥用权力和优势地位的前提下，政客是否应当因其私德有亏而被指摘？个人认为值得探讨。

女性：基于两性关系的特点，女性是性丑闻和性犯罪的绝对被动方或“受害者”，克林顿可以逃脱丑闻的影响甚至幸免于弹劾，而如剧中的电视节目所言，谁能想象并接受你的儿子回家告诉你：“老爸老妈，我要和莱文斯基结婚。”从这一点看来，世界上人们的观念一如从前而无改进。

朋友：友情的维持并不容易，也需要某种程度上的利益对换与价值提供，当单方面的输出到达极限，也需要换位思考并努力提供个体价值。良性的人际关系需要不断地积蓄能量，也需要有一定的自留地。琳达·特里普录音电话的行为纵然可以归为“背叛”、为人不齿。直到最后，尽管无法逃避人们对于其录音电话的行为夹杂的私欲的质疑，尽管当大陪审团质疑“难道你期待当你揭穿这一切之后，莱文斯基的处境会变得更好么”的质疑，她亦无言以对，特里普仍然相信她只是揭穿了这段病态婚外情关系的事实，结束了对莱文斯基造成的痛苦，而非莱文斯基所遭遇不幸的始作俑者。

看客：包括对于支持葆拉·琼斯对克林顿提起诉讼背后的共和党政客和各类利益群体，以及莱文斯基案最早的互联网“吃瓜群众”，当事人以外的看客无论支持或嘲讽，都是基于个人利益或作为茶余饭后的消遣。在大是大非面前，不能头脑发热，要想其后果。

摘录就莱文斯基案的国会报告（https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDOC-105hdoc310/pdf/CDOC-105hdoc310.pdf）的经典段落：

1. 雪茄

In the hallway by the study, the President and Ms. Lewinsky kissed. On this occasion, according to Ms. Lewinsky, ‘‘he focused on me pretty exclusively,’’ kissing her bare breasts and fondling her genitals. At one point, the President inserted a cigar into Ms. Lewinsky’s vagina, then put the cigar in his mouth and said: ‘‘It tastes good.’’ After they were finished, Ms. Lewinsky left the Oval Office and walked through the Rose Garden.

2. 蓝色裙子

After reaching an immunity and cooperation agreement with the Office of the Independent Counsel on July 28, 1998, Ms. Lewinsky turned over a navy blue dress that she said she had worn during a sexual encounter with the President on February 28, 1997. According to Ms. Lewinsky, she noticed stains on the garment the next time she took it from her closet. From their location, she surmised that the stains were the President’s semen.

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When Ms. Lewinsky next took the navy blue Gap dress from her closet to wear it, she noticed stains near one hip and on the chest. FBI Laboratory tests revealed that the stains are the President’s semen.

3. 克林顿的诡辩

The President testified that he had said ‘‘things that were true about this relationship. That I used—in the language I used, I said, there’s nothing going on between us. That was true. I said I did not have sex with her as I defined it. That was true.’’ [1091]The President qualified this answer, however: ‘‘I said things that were true. They may have been misleading, and if they were I have to take responsibility for it, and I’m sorry.’’

[1091] In claiming that this statement was true, the President was apparently relying on the same tense-based distinction he made during the Jones deposition. See Clinton 8/17/98 GJ at 59–61 (‘‘It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement. * * * Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.’’)

The President himself spoke publicly about the matter several times in the initial days after the story broke. On January 26, the President was definitive: ‘‘I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never. These allegations are false.’’ (Televised Remarks by President Clinton at the White House Education News Conference, Monday, January 26, 1998, 10:17 a.m.)

4. 报告的结论

In this case, the President made and caused to be made false statements to the American people about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. He also made false statements about whether he had lied under oath or otherwise obstructed justice in his civil case. By publicly and emphatically stating in January 1998 that ‘‘I did not have sexual relations with that woman’’ and these ‘‘allegations are false,’’ the President also effectively delayed a possible congressional inquiry, and then he further delayed it by asserting Executive Privilege and refusing to testify for six months during the Independent Counsel investigation. This represents substantial and credible information that may constitute grounds for an impeachment.