Title: Bill Clinton: Why was he impeached? | CNN Politics
Headings: Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
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How a land deal inquiry became a sex scandal
The other Clinton sex scandal
The Republican impeachment push

Content: It helped launch the country into an era of hyper-partisanship has only amplified under Trump. While Clinton’s lies about his affair with Monica Lewinsky might be the most memorable part of the impeachment, that was not where it all started. Clinton had been under investigation by an independent counsel almost from the moment he took office, when he appointed an independent counsel to conduct an inquiry into a land deal he and his wife conducted long before he took office. Related Article How Trump's impeachment stacks up, in four charts
From there, the counsel had grown and expanded and looked into other elements of the Clinton presidency. A panel of judges replaced the first Clinton independent counsel with Ken Starr in 1994. It was Starr who ultimately expanded his investigation to include a possible affair by the President after he was approached by Linda Tripp, a former White House secretary who had befriended Lewinsky and then recorded their phone conversations. The other Clinton sex scandal
In the midst of the Starr investigation, Clinton was also accused of sexual misconduct in a lawsuit by Paula Jones, a former employee for the Arkansas state government. Jones had sued Clinton in 1994 for sexual harassment and it set off a years-long legal battle that included an important Supreme Court decision in 1997 that made clear a President could face a civil lawsuit while in office. It was as part of that case that Clinton was asked during a grand jury proceeding about the Lewinsky affair. Clinton later reached an $850,000 out of court settlement with Jones a little more than a month before his impeachment and a month after Starr had published his report, which included 11 possible impeachable offenses, ranging from perjury and obstruction of justice to witness tampering and abuse of power.