We are likely closer to the beginning than the end of the story about whether former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton face charges, and possible prison time, for contempt of Congress. But the fact that it got this far, with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recommending contempt for the Clintons for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena, is striking.
With the House in GOP control, and a Justice Department run by GOP appointees, and a U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., run by GOP appointees, the Clintons, no strangers to having Republicans go after them, might be in for a perilous legal journey if negotiations with the committee for their testimony about the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their past contact with him do not yield an agreement.
