Gingrich Blasts Clinton Strategies

House Speaker Newt Gingrich says President Clinton's handling of the Monica Lewinsky investigation has degraded the presidency to "a level of disrespect and decadence that should appall every American."

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Gingrich accused Mr. Clinton and fellow Democrats of promoting the "outrageous demonization" of Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr.

He also criticized the refusal of House Democrats to immunize witnesses in the campaign fund-raising investigation, and said the administration's legal fight to shield the testimony of Secret Service agents in the Lewinsky case was "the last straw."

"This is not about politics. I don't know and I don't care how this 'strategy' polls. This has nothing to do with vendettas or witch-hunts or partisan advantage," Gingrich wrote in the May 22 edition of Human Events. "This is very simply about the rule of law, and the survival of the American system of justice. This is what the Constitution demands, and what Richard Nixon had to resign over."