In September 1998 Independent Counsel Starr released the famous Starr Report, concerning offenses alleged to have been committed by President Clinton as part of the Lewinsky scandal.

If her testimony is truthful, then the President committed the offenses alleged in the articles of impeachment.

But this time, there was a difference: as he noted, most of the offenses alleged in court papers had occurred after he took over as Commissioner.

Now the President's lawyers have begun to put forward the argument that the offenses alleged in the articles of impeachment do not form sufficient grounds to warrant Mr. Clinton's removal from office.

Any Democratic senator voting for the findings of fact would be contradicting the President's denials that he did not commit the offenses alleged in the articles of impeachment.

But Mr. Meese recently did, in the matter of offenses alleged against Faith Whittlesey, the Ambassador to Switzerland.

Oliver North will probably not be tried on the most serious offenses alleged against him, and that's too bad.

The California courts ruled in this case, Stogner v. California, No. 01-1757, that the change permitted a new prosecution for offenses alleged to have occurred in the 1950's.

Double criminality is a requirement in extradition procedures from the United States of America as extradition is allowed only for offenses alleged as crimes in both jurisdictions.

Today we're proceeding because of the serious offenses alleged against President Clinton.