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Clinton Off-Camera Unlikely NewsMax.comBill Clinton, infamous for seeking the limelight, is not considered likely to testify about pardons privately to Sen. Arlen Specter, not famous for avoiding cameras. It's still anyone's guess whether the former president will appear voluntarily to testify, in the open or behind closed doors, or whether the Senate will summon the nerve to try to subpoena him. Specter is the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the Senate committee that would like to hear Clinton expound under oath on why he decided to give a last-minute pardon to billionaire fugitive Marc Rich. On ABC TV's "This Week" program Sunday, Specter said he thought Clinton "is thinking about" and "may be inclined" to accept his offer to be questioned privately by a Democratic senator and himself as a way of "getting to the basic facts." Specter said he had suggested "very professional questioning ... in an office, his office if he would like." Not likely, Clinton spokeswoman Julia Payne told the Associated Press. "This is not an offer he's considering at this time," she said. And if Clinton says thanks, but no thanks? "Technically there could be a subpoena," Specter said. "I don't think that will happen," because of the "sensitivity" of trying to force even a former president to testify against his will.
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