[/caption] Did you know that 10 years ago today President Bill Clinton was impeached behind the Lewinsky scandal?And that the repercussions from that impeachment can still be felt as the Obama administration takes shape. Here's more on that from the International Herald Tribune:"It came to John Podesta during a jog through Rock Creek Park over the Thanksgiving weekend. His boss was going to be impeached and there was no way around it. It took Rahm Emanuel a little longer to reach that conclusion. And it fell to Gregory Craig to pick up the pieces once it happened.Ten years ago this week, Bill Clinton became the first elected U.S. president ever impeached by the House of Representatives, the culmination of a sex-and-lies scandal that consumed the United States and fractured its political system. Although he was eventually acquitted by the Senate, the scars run deep even as veterans of that showdown return to power under a new president promising to repair a breach that still divides Washington.As key members of Clinton's defense a decade ago, Podesta, his chief of staff; Emanuel, his senior adviser; and Craig, his special counsel, bring the lessons of that searing moment to the table as they now serve in President-elect Barack Obama's inner circle.They learned the imperatives of moving quickly, closing ranks, controlling information and never conceding an inch when the president faces a threat, strategies employed with varying degrees of effectiveness back then.Those instincts took over again last week with the furor surrounding the alleged scheme by the governor of Illinois to sell Obama's old U.S. Senate seat for personal advantage, perhaps a cabinet position or other favors from the incoming president. Podesta, now Obama's transition co-chairman; Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff; and Craig, tapped to become White House counsel, knew the playbook.Even though Obama had no known personal involvement, the Clinton veterans understood that was only part of the issue. They had Obama publicly d