Controversy of Private and Public Knowledge

Another event that is often debated on what should be private knowledge and what public knowledge should be is the President Clinton and Monica Lewinski. There is a lot of controversy on what was considered to be relevant to the public in the question of the presidency. President Clinton’s impeachment was being based on the fact that he lied about his relationship with Monica, that he did not have sexual relations with her where he did in fact have oral sex. His lying to the people of America is what was questioned on impeachment, therefore was it really necessary for the public to know about the extent of the relationship? If the impeachment was based solely on the lies, then if the specifics of the affair had been kept as private knowledge there would be nothing to include in the impeachment. It really was of no advantage to the society of the public knowing the specifics of the relationship. In this case there is a controversy over what should or should not be public knowledge.