[Benanov]

AIUI Bill Clinton did not lie:

The way I heard it, the government used a specific language for "have sexual relations with" (hereinafter HSRW):

A HSRW B if the mouth, hands, or genitals of A touch the genitals of B.

Any hackernews regular would notice that HSRW is not associative - as in it is entirely possible for A HSRW B to be true, but B HSRW A to be false; in fact this was the case for if A's mouth touches B's genitals; A HSRW B but !(B HSRW A).

You can whine and plead and ask the question 4,000 times, but at the end of the day, if one don't understand logic, you might be a Republican Senator in the 1990's.

[mlyle]

Clinton's claim was effectively that he believed the definition was not associative for that specific statement. There was also the later statement which he described Monica's statement about having not had a sexual relationship as true.

The trial court disagreed that these statements truthfully responded to the deposition, and fined him for his misleading answer.