AP 9/11/98 "Reading the graphic descriptions is disgusting. It's not the way normal people act.'' _ Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.

AP 9/11/98 "``The pattern of conduct here constitutes the defilement of the office of the president and I think that's something the American people will conclude if these facts are substantiated.'' _ Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla.

AP 9/11/98 "``The Starr report will reinforce the strong case for the president's departure made by Bill Clinton's own words. ... The decent and honorable thing for the president would be to resign. His refusal to do so forces the country to make a terrible decision.'' _ Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo.

National Review Online's Washington Bulletin 9/11/98 ". Starr is clearly playing for keeps. And he was arguably also pushed into this level of detail by the President's weasly attempts to say his answers were "legally accurate." It remains to be seen how the public will react to this-revulsion at the president or at this whole process?--but the report definitely proves that Clinton was a frat boy on the make in the White House. Anyone familiar with the post-adolescent dating scene will recognize the Clinton- Lewinsky relationship, with its flirty eye contact, its gamemanship over her phone number, the worries about whether he is really serious about her. Here was the leader of the free world trying his hardest to dodge the adults in the White House so he could he could engage in this reckless fling. How reckless? At one point, Clinton was apparently worried that a foreign embassy was onto his relationship with Lewinsky-let's hope it wasn't Red China! It also appears that Betty Currie-that paragon of virtue according to the White House- was in effect pimping for the president, facilitating his relationship with Lewinsky. Starr seems to have definitively nailed the president on perjury, both in the Jones deposition and before the grand jury (so much for the president's constitutional duty to take care that the laws of the U.S. are faithfully executed). Against the perjury charge, the White House will attempt to use the "no-hands" defense--and hope that, if that doesn't work, the public at least will want to avert its eyes. ."

National Review Online's Washington Bulletin 9/11/98 ".The White House hammers a couple of themes particularly hard. One is "private," i.e., this is a private matter for which the president has already apologized. According to the report, "the OIC report is left with nothing but the detail of a private sexual relationship told in graphic details with the intent to embarrass." Where have we heard that before? The report then goes on to outline what constitutes impeachable offenses, and in this case emphasizes another theme: "public." Impeachment is for crimes against the state, according to the White House. It must focus on public acts. So the message is clear: Clinton's offense was private, therefore not an appropriate matter for impeachment.."

The Pioneer 9/12/98 "It remains to be seen whether President William Jefferson Clinton of the United States is impeached. Even if he is not, the presidency will end for him, whenever and whichever way it does, not with a bang but with a whimper. In fact the whimpering has already started with the man holding what is reputedly the most powerful office in the world appealing piteously over television and radio, for forgiveness and another chance to put his dalliances behind and his presidency and life in order..As for reaction in India, few will shed tears over the exit of a US President whose Administration has been transparently pro-Pakistan on the Kashmir issue and which has persistently refused to condemn Islamabad for its escalating campaign of terrorism against this country. Besides, its blatant assertion that while it had the right to rain missiles on Mr Osama Bin Laden's terrorist camps, India ought to desist from hot pursuit of Pakistan-sponsored terrorists as that could spark off a war, would be remembered as one of the most glaring application of double standards in the international sphere."

AP Terence Hunt 9/11/98 "It was the most humiliating day of Bill Clinton's presidency. The stained blue dress. Telephone sex. Oval Office intimacies. All that and more, spelled out in lurid detail in a report alleging 11 grounds for impeaching the president, including perjury and obstruction of justice. After nine months of intense investigation, Clinton's future now rests with an anxious Congress facing re-election in just 54 days. Lawmakers have not confronted the explosive idea of presidential impeachment in 24 years - - indeed, it has arisen only twice in history -- and there is no certain roadmap for them to follow. The most likely scenario calls for public hearings next year. The most immediate test will come Monday when lawmakers return to town after a weekend of talking with constituents back home.``The public now has no choice but to make up its mind,'' said Republican pollster Frank Luntz. ``It's no longer hypothetical. It's no longer up for debate. The only thing open for debate now is how the president will be held accountable.'' Democrats are nervous about polls suggesting that Clinton's behavior has demoralized Democratic voters and that they will stay home on Nov. 3. Republicans increasingly hope Clinton will lead his party to the biggest electoral disaster since 1974 when Republicans were vanquished after Richard Nixon's forced resignation.."

The Hindu 9/12/98 Editorial "ALL SEEMS OVER bar the prurient hilarity on the Internet. Mr. Bill Clinton, who came into the White House more than six years ago with a missionary zeal for democracy and liberalism around the globe, has few options left to try and save a Presidency already in embarrassing suspended animation. Mr. Clinton's supporters, who must still be a sizable majority, must hope that he will resign rather than be pushed out, though it is certain that he will prefer to go down fighting. As he prepares for a last-ditch battle, one unmistakable factor is evident. In hardly a fortnight, Mr. Clinton has been transformed. On August 17 when he addressed the nation after his testimony before the grand jury there was a noticeable note of defiance as he said ``thanks for watching and good night.'' By the beginning of September he was in a pathetic apology mode, ready and willing to say sorry from foreign soil.. But by his monumental effort to hide the truth and subvert evidence Mr. Clinton lost the trust of his people, lost his own moral authority to rule. The loss of credibility amid what is claimed to be mounting evidence against him raised genuine questions about Mr. Clinton's fitness for office.."

AP 9/11/98 Ron Fournier "President Clinton promised over breakfast that he would wage a ``vigorous defense'' against impeachment. By lunchtime, he was dominating airwaves with a report accusing prosecutors of ``dangerously overreaching.'' Ahead on TV and on the Internet, too, the president and his backers were lightning quick Friday in challenging Independent Counsel Kenneth's Starr's report of possibly impeachable offenses. Their rebuttal landed at Capitol Hill offices and on the Internet an hour before Congress unsealed Starr's report. Hit quick. Hit hard. Hit often. It's an old Clinton strategy that he hopes will carry him through the most perilous chapter of his bumpy political career. The president is trying to avoid a stampede of Democratic desertions, raise questions about Starr's report and trap Republicans in partisan games..Vice President Al Gore has put two of his top aides at Clinton's service, ordering them to help shore up support among Democrats.."

AP 9/11/98 Anne Grearan "Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report on the Lewinsky affair makes a solid case that President Clinton had a sexual relationship and lied about it, but Starr is on shakier ground when he alleges obstruction of justice and witness tampering, legal analysts said. Lawyers said Starr's case is strongest when detailing numerous visits, phone calls, notes and gifts Clinton shared with Monica Lewinsky, or such physical evidence as the blue dress stained by what the FBI lab concluded was almost surely Clinton's semen. The case is weakest when dealing with allegations that Clinton tried to get others to lie for him, lawyers said Friday.. ``He lied in the (Paula Jones) deposition and he lied to the grand jury,'' said Peter F. Rient, who was an assistant prosecutor in the House Watergate investigation in 1974, before reading the report. Clinton is apparently in greatest danger when his own statements are compared against one another or against the testimony of others. When he admitted an affair in his testimony last month before a grand jury, after months of denial, ``at that point the rubber plainly hits the road,'' said Eric M. Freedman, a Hofstra University law professor.."

London Daily Mirror 9/12/98 Brian Reade "AS Bill Clinton wept at breakfast for forgiveness, I hope it made every citizen proud to live in this wonderful little country, Britain. And thankfully not America. Because this shameless 11th hour attempt at emotional bribery would surely never happen here. Not yet.Not while we all watched live on coast-to-coast TV with a full breakfast in our stomachs and a clean carpet beneath our mouths. The President claimed his speech to 325 of the nation's religious leaders in the East Room of the White House was all about him taking his first step on The Path To Repentance.But it wasn't. It was a skilled rogue, a seasoned actor, reading from a highly-crafted script, Crying In The Last Chance Hankie. "I have a determination to change. I have repented. I have what my Bible calls 'a broken spirit'.."

Washington Post 9/11/98 Marc Fisher David Montgomery ".Within an hour of the report's release, thanks to the Internet, the nation began history's first simultaneous reading of smut. In coffee shops and exercise gyms, at soccer practices and cybercafes, Americans expressed exasperation, amusement, sorrow and anger as they scanned the voluminous text, stunned by its explicit version of the president's sexual behavior..For most of this year, Americans confounded the pundits by insisting that their support of the president was undiminished by increasingly persuasive accounts of his sexual misdeeds. Yet many Washington insiders, Republicans and Democrats alike, persisted in their belief that when finally confronted with what Clinton had done, the American public would turn on their president with a vengeance. But the first reactions to the report and its startlingly graphic descriptions of the relationship between Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky were of a different sort of revulsion - a visceral feeling that, while hardly anyone could stop reading, this was a body of material that citizens simply weren't supposed to see.. Readers looked for support for their partisan views - evidence that Starr had gone too far, or proof that Clinton ought to be bounced from office. But the pro and anti camps were united in one emotion - sadness. .."

Freeper Report 9/12/98 "Ms. Currie testified that she suspected impropriety in the President's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.(404)..(407) Ms. Currie helped keep the relationship secret. When the President wanted to talk with Ms. Lewinsky, Ms. Currie would dial the call herself rather than go through White House operators, who keep logs of presidential calls made through the switchboard.(408) When Ms. Lewinsky phoned and Ms. Currie put the President on the line, she did not log the call, though the standard procedure was to note all calls, personal and professional.(409) According to Secret Service uniformed officers, Ms. Currie sometimes tried to persuade them to admit Ms. Lewinsky to the White House compound without making a record of it.(410) In addition, Ms. Currie avoided writing down or retaining most messages from Ms. Lewinsky to the President. In response to a grand jury subpoena, the White House turned over only one note to the President concerning Ms. Lewinsky -- whereas evidence indicates that Ms. Lewinsky used Ms. Currie to convey requests and messages to the President on many occasions.(411) When bringing Ms. Lewinsky in from the White House gate, Ms. Currie said she sometimes chose a path that would reduce the likelihood of being seen by two White House employees who disapproved of Ms. Lewinsky: Stephen Goodin and Nancy Hernreich.(412) Ms. Currie testified that she once brought Ms. Lewinsky directly to the study, "sneaking her back" via a roundabout path to avoid running into Mr. Goodin.(413) When Ms. Lewinsky visited the White House on weekends and at night, being spotted was not a problem -- in Ms. Currie's words, "there would be no need to sneak" -- so Ms. Lewinsky would await the President in Ms. Currie's office.(414)."

London Daily Telegraph 9/12/98 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard "RUMOURS have now become facts. Allegations dismissed by the White House for five years as tabloid trash and Right-wing invention have been corroborated in legal documents, under the jurisdiction of the US Circuit Court of Appeals. Not just corroborated: outdone. The harshest critics of Bill Clinton would never have dared to suggest that he performed sex acts on an intern, in the Oval Office, with a cigar. Mr Clinton can complain that he was ensnared by his enemies, but his proven behaviour as President speaks for itself.. Private citizens are routinely tried for these offences and, if convicted, are sentenced to long terms in prison. The President cannot be held to a lower standard. He misused the Secret Service and the White House staff to further his illegal cover-up and tried to bully his elderly secretary into committing perjury...As a man devoid of shame, Clinton will try to hang on to power if he thinks there is the remotest chance of winning an impeachment trial in the US Senate. At the White House, they are adding up the numbers. To beat impeachment, Mr Clinton needs the support of 34 Senators. So long as he retains the rump of the Democratic Party, he can afford to lose the "nervous nellies", the moralisers, and those with razor-thin margins facing re-election in November..I doubt that threats will work. The Democrats face slaughter in the mid-term elections. For 30 years they have struggled to rehabilitate themselves as a respectable party, after getting caught smoking dope, throwing rocks at police, and fornicating on public lawns in the heady days of the 1960s. And now they have to answer for a party leader who licks macadamia nuts off the stomach of a 22-year-old intern in the Oval Office, and uses the machinery of government, illegally and systematically, to prevent an Arkansas clerk proving in court that she was summoned to Bill Clinton's room like a slave girl, and told to give satisfaction The latest Battleground Research poll shows "restoring moral values" has leapt to the top of the public agenda, overshadowing the worthy causes of the Democrats."

Capitol Hill Blue 9/11/98 ".``To excuse a party who lied or concealed evidence on the ground that the evidence covered only 'personal' or 'private' behavior would frustrate the goals that Congress and the courts have sought to achieve in enacting and interpreting the nation's sexual harassment laws,'' Starr wrote.``That is particularly true when the conduct that is being concealed - sexual relations in the workplace between a high official and a young subordinate employee - itself conflicts with those goals.''. The Starr report discloses for the first time that DNA tests conducted by the FBI almost indisputably determined that semen found on one of Ms. Lewinsky's dresses matched a DNA sample provided by Clinton, placing the odds that it wasn't his at 1 in 7.87 trillion. And it lays out in graphic terms several sexual episodes between Ms. Lewinsky and the president, alleging from Ms. Lewinsky's account that they had oral sex as he talked several times on the telephone to members of Congress, and that in one encounter an unlit cigar was used as a prop. It also says they engaged in explicit phone sex on 12 to 15 occasions. Prosecutors said they were providing such detail to prove their case that Clinton lied before the grand jury when he insisted he gave ``legally accurate'' testimony in January when he claimed he did not have ``sexual relations'' with Ms. Lewinsky. ``It is unfortunate but it is essential,'' Starr wrote. ``The president's defense to many of the allegations is based on a close parsing of the definitions that were used to describe his conduct. We have, after careful review, identified no manner of providing the information that reveals the falsity of the president's statements other than to describe his conduct with precision.''."

London Telegraph 9/12/98 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard "It was a media putsch that toppled President Nixon in the Watergate scandal. The elite press, overwhelmingly Democratic, forced the pace of the judicial inquiries with frenzied energy and relish. This time the great metropolitan newspapers and the television networks have been dragged kicking and screaming to the story. Republican sin is fair game. Democratic sin is a "private matter". In some cases the press has played an active role in suppressing the truth, arguably allowing themselves to become propaganda instruments for the Clinton White House. Sidney Blumenthal, who wrote a scathing profile of Gennifer Flowers, the woman who nearly destroyed Mr Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, has since joined the White House as a top aide and has masterminded a "scorched earth" campaign against Mr Clinton's critics. The double standards have been insidious.."

Washington Post 9/12/98 Ruth Marcus Roberto Suro "As they consider the allegations against President Clinton in the coming weeks and months, members of Congress will have to navigate between two sharply conflicting views of the facts, the law and the proper standards for impeaching a president. Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report to Congress and the 73-page rebuttal released by Clinton's lawyers present stark contrasts on every front: what exactly the president did with the former intern and others caught up in the case; whether his effort to conceal their relationship amounted to obstruction of justice and perjury; and - most fundamentally - whether or not Clinton committed crimes, his actions were so serious as to warrant removal from office.."

Fox News Crier Report 9/11/98 Freeper Reports "Dick Morris, former Clinton ally, admits to Crier that the "Whitewater" aspects of Starr's report are not done yet and that Hillary is a primary target."

Federal News Service 9/11/98 Orrin Hatch ".They sent it to the House. And, by the way, David Kendall is not the one who is going to determine what's impeachable, what isn't. It's the House of Representatives. And they can use almost any standard they want to to determine what is or is not impeachable. And as you read this, I have to say that some will try to make this just purely a sexual matter, and they'll try to say this is purely a private matter. But I don't see anything that I've read so far that indicates that Judge Starr is saying that he should be impeached because of the sexual relationship. It's because of other matters that are very significant that apparently he is saying impeachment is a consideration. And that's a very important distinction.."

Creator's Syndicate 9/11/98 Pat Buchanan ".But this episode needs cloture now. The swaggering, cocky Bill Clinton of weeks ago, with his rakish "I'm-going-to-get-away-with-this" attitude, was an exasperating figure, but that Clinton could better command a country than the pathetic puppy of today, burbling endless, whiny apologies in which he does not believe. And the hypocrisy here has reached the unhealthy range. To watch liberals who supped at Clinton's table turn and bite him, as the polls turn, and wail about his "immorality" validates Harry Truman's insight that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog..But with Russia in crisis, the Mideast embers glowing, the specter of Islamic war rising on the Afghan border, and smoke in the cockpit of the Global Economy, this soap opera has gone on long enough. Congress ought to stay in session until the matter is settled..The full House, then, should vote quickly on one question: Did Ken Starr deliver "sufficient and credible evidence" of "high crimes"? If not, end it there. If the evidence warrants a trial, get it over to the Senate, and let's get on with that trial. As for Whitewater, Filegate and Travelgate, Congress should vote to instruct Starr to report on whether the president was wrongly investigated -- or narrowly escaped indictment. The truth, and the whole truth, will not prevent the poisoning of politics from this sordid affair, but it may help make the poison pass out more quickly."

Freeper Report ".Ms. Currie informed several Secret Service officers that the President was "irate" that someone had disclosed to Ms. Lewinsky whom he was meeting with.(741) Ms. Currie told Sergeant Keith Williams, a supervisory uniformed Secret Service Officer, that if he "didn't find out what was going on, someone could be fired."(742) She also told Captain Jeffrey Purdie, the Secret Service watch commander for the uniformed division at the time, that the President was "so upset he wants somebody fired over this."(743) .Later that day (December 6), the uniformed Secret Service officers at the Northwest Gate were told that no one would be fired -- so long as they remained quiet. According to Sergeant Williams, Ms. Currie said that, if the officers did not "tell a lot of people what had happened, then nothing would happen."(754) The President told Captain Jeffrey Purdie, the Secret Service watch commander for the uniformed division at the time, "I hope you use your discretion."(755) Captain Purdie interpreted the President's remark to mean that Captain Purdie "wasn't going to say anything," and he in turn told all of the officers involved not to discuss the incident.(756) One officer recalled that Captain Purdie told him and other officers, "Whatever just happened didn't happen."(757) Captain Purdie told another officer, "I was just in the Oval Office with the President and he wants somebody's ass out here. . . . As far as you're concerned, . . . [t]his never happened."(758) In response, that officer, who considered the Northwest Gate incident a "major event," "just shook [his] head" and "started making a set of [his] own notes" in order to document the incident.(759) ."

Salon Magazine 9/12/98 David Horowitz "And so, the unraveling begins. The Starr Report -- with 500 pages of text about multiple "impeachable" offenses -- has been released. Senior voices in the president's own party have already stepped forward to state the obvious, and also the fundamental: that the president's behavior has been reprehensible, immoral, irresponsible and dangerous; that no chief executive can function if he is widely perceived as a compulsive liar; that a president without credibility, in a world fraught with peril, is a national security risk; that the Oval Office is not a private bedroom, but a people's symbol. Ronald Reagan refused even to remove his jacket in the White House, out of respect for the office. Let alone drop his pants. To debase the presidency and to cover it with shame ought to be an impeachable crime in itself. And yet the denial continues, and the war goes on.."

Salon Magazine 9/12/98 David Horowitz ".The Clintonites' defense (and their line on Starr's investigation) is quickly summarized: 1) Until the Lewinsky affair, the lengthy and expensive inquiry into the Clintons' affairs turned up nothing that would justify it; 2) The Lewinsky affair is about sex; 3) Everybody lies (and would even perjure themselves) about sex. This argument misrepresents (or misunderstands) 1) the significance of the Lewinsky affair in the fabric of Starr's case and 2) The importance of character in the construction of lies... This is a man who can't even tell the truth about his own golf scores and who has been publicly called "an exceptionally good liar" by a senior senator from his own party -- not out of bitterness, but in awe. Unlike people who may lie only about sex, a pathological liar is an abusive, narcissistic and ruthless individual who does not really care about the hurt he inflicts on others. The lies about Billy Dale were both gratuitous and cruel. The seven months of lies about Monica Lewinsky, to friends and foes alike, were brutal betrayals of trust, abuses of party and country alike..

Salon Magazine 9/12/98 David Horowitz ".It is both Clintons -- husband and wife -- who are responsible for this crisis. In the latter days of the presidential crisis, the nation has lapsed into a kind of nostalgic sexism. As usual the White House masters are in control of the spin: Hillary didn't know; Hillary is a victim. Well, Hillary is no victim, and it is demeaning to the first lady, and everything we know about her, to consider her one. Maybe it is true that no one understands another person's marriage, as Hillary suggested. But one thing we can be pretty sure of is that Hillary knew in January her husband was cheating and that he was lying about it to the American people. Hillary is, in every way, President Clinton's collaborator and co-conspirator. Beginning with Whitewater, she has been the co-author of the schemes that led to the investigations, and the co-architect of the war against them. This imbroglio is not just about President Clinton's women. If it were, it would be over already. But it is far more serious than that. What the crisis has come down to really is the narcissistic passions of two people who are apparently willing to take down everything -- from the judicial process to the office of the president -- and everyone -- from their political enemies, like Starr, to their most loyal supporters and pathetic instruments, like Betty Currie and Monica Lewinsky -- in order to feed their personal desires and to protect their political power. This is why they will not go until they are made to go, and why it is important for our nation's leaders, regardless of party, and the American people, regardless of politics, to see that they do. "

New York Times Editorial 9/12/98 "Until it was measured by Kenneth Starr, no citizen -- indeed, perhaps no member of his own family -- could have grasped the completeness of President Clinton's mendacity or the magnitude of his recklessness. Whatever the outcome of the resignation and impeachment debates, the independent counsel report by Mr. Starr is devastating in one respect, and its historic mark will be permanent. A President who had hoped to be remembered for the grandeur of his social legislation will instead be remembered for the tawdriness of his tastes and conduct and for the disrespect with which he treated a dwelling that is a revered symbol of Presidential dignity. By using that great house for sad little trysts with a desperately star-struck employee, by skulking around within sight of nervous Secret Service agents, by conducting erotic telephone games while traveling without his wife, Mr. Clinton has produced a crisis of surreal complexity. The crisis will have to be resolved at the imprecise point where legal and constitutional principles intersect with controlling political reality. A President without public respect or Congressional support cannot last.."

NY Post Richard Johnson Jeane MacIntosh 3/2/98 "REVLON boss Ron Perelman seems to be using the White House as the firm's private recruiting ground. Though "Zippergate" headliner Monica Lewinsky was cut from the Revlon roster after news of her alleged affair with Bill Clinton broke, the Manhattan-based company did find a spot for another White House alum, Tracy Davis. Sources say Davis landed a public relations post in Revlon's ad division, Tarlow Advertising, in early January, around the same time the cosmetics conglom was deciding whether to take on Lewinsky. Before heading to New York, Davis toiled as an assistant in the White House social office.. "Tracy is a tall, thin, straight-haired brunette," a spy told us. "She has lots of attitude and can toss it around." .And then there's Perelman's latest girlfriend, Eleanor Mondale. Clinton's longtime running mate, the beautiful blond broadcaster has gone jogging with him several times over the years."

AP 9/13/98 "Paula Jones feels vindicated by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress on President Clinton's relationship with a former White House intern, her former spokeswoman said Saturday.. "HAD PAULA NOT continued to be very strong and carry through with her convictions, we would have not known what a very disturbed president we have," Susan Carpenter-McMillan said. Starr's report alleges that Clinton committed perjury - both in Jones' lawsuit against the president last January and again in his grand jury appearance last month..."

AP 9/13/98 Peter Yost "President Clinton's lawyer greeted the release of Kenneth Starr's report on Monica Lewinsky by asking, "Where's Whitewater?'' Starr says he wants to address that and other questions as soon as possible. "All phases of the investigation are now nearing completion,'' Starr said in Friday's referral to the House on Clinton's sexual relationship with the former White House intern. "This Office will soon make final decisions about what steps to take, if any, with respect to the other information it has gathered,'' Starr's report states. It added: "Those decisions will be made at the earliest practical time.'' Starr has two important cases pending. He is appealing the dismissal of a tax-evasion indictment against Webster Hubbell, paid $450,000 by friends of the president while Hubbell was under criminal investigation by Whitewater prosecutors. The report, delivered to Congress last week and made public Friday, says that before the Lewinsky investigation erupted in January, prosecutors were investigating "whether a relationship existed between consulting payments to Mr. Hubbell and his lack of cooperation, specifically his incomplete testimony.'' Starr "was investigating whether Mr. Hubbell concealed information about certain core Arkansas matters, namely, the much-publicized Castle Grande real estate project and related legal work by the Rose Law firm, including the First Lady,'' the report said.."

Fox News 9/13/98 David Espo AP "The House of Representatives is increasingly likely to vote for a formal impeachment inquiry in the next few weeks, congressional officials said Sunday, a step that could ratchet up the political jeopardy confronting President Clinton. Republicans, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that if it takes such a step, the House would not necessarily limit its inquiry to Kenneth Starr's review of Clinton's sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky and his attempts to deny it under oath. Instead, these officials said, the House Judiciary Committee might be empowered to range over numerous other issues, from Whitewater to Clinton's involvement in questionable campaign fund-raising in 1996. Democrats would vigorously oppose any expansion beyond Starr's report, one aide said Sunday night..Such a vote, if it occurs in the next few weeks, would take place in the shadow of the mid-term elections. As a result, it would leave Democrats in the position of having to choose between a deeper investigation of Clinton on the one hand, or laying themselves open to campaign charges of attempting to cover up his alleged wrongdoings on the other..That type of lawyerly defense drew dismissive reaction from Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb. "The president's going to lose if they continue to do that,'' Kerrey said, appearing alongside Hatch on CBS' "Face the Nation.'' "He is being very badly served with this legal hairsplitting,'' agreed Hatch. "I think the president has a chance of getting through this, if he'll quit splitting legal hairs, if he'll quit playing this legal game.'' At the same time, the White House's counterattack against Starr was achieving success among the public. A CBS poll, taken Saturday, found 60 percent of those responding believed Starr included numerous lurid sexual details in his report to embarrass the president. Only 33 percent believed it was to prove perjury..Even before Judiciary Committee members have a chance to complete their review of Starr's evidence, officials expressed a growing belief that the House is likely to take the next step and vote a formal impeachment inquiry. It would be up to the panel to recommend such a step, and the entire House would have to approve it. It is not clear whether such a vote would be preceded by a public hearing. Republicans have talked for months about the possibility of convening a hearing, possibly to permit Starr to lay out his evidence, and for a representative of the president to offer a rebuttal.."

Chicago Tribune 9/14/98 Naftali Bendavid "Monica Lewinsky was in the office of Vernon Jordan, a powerful figure in the worlds of law, business and politics, to discuss Jordan's attempts to find her a job. But suddenly the Dec. 19 meeting took a very different turn. Lewinsky abruptly asked Jordan about the future of President Clinton's marriage. Struck by the unexpected question, Jordan asked if she and Clinton had a sexual relationship and she said no..Lewinsky, though, assumed Jordan did not believe her denial. She figured the prominent attorney knew ``with a wink and a nod that I was having a relationship with the president,'' she told a grand jury..Starr's references to Jordan are not flattering. He is portrayed as being, at least in this episode, Clinton's fixer, a man who takes care of problems. As Starr describes it, Jordan helped Clinton get Lewinsky a job to keep her quiet, oversaw her legal arrangements and kept the president informed of her legal and emotional status. The big question, perhaps, is whether Starr will file criminal charges against Jordan, striking another blow at Clinton's inner circle. While parts of Starr's report seem to point to a possible indictment, Starr also pointedly allows for the scenario that Jordan was merely an unwitting dupe of Clinton...Three clear questions arise as a result of Starr's account: Did Jordan knowingly help Clinton obstruct justice by using his formidable contacts to find Lewinsky a job? Did he obstruct justice himself in his discussions with Lewinsky about her role in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case? And, in urging Lewinsky to throw out notes she had written to Clinton, did he tread close to the edge of the law?..Lewinsky wrote what Starr called a ``peevish'' letter to Clinton on July 3, sarcastically beginning ``Dear Sir'' and, in Starr's eyes, obliquely threatening to reveal their affair if she was not rehired at the White House. Clinton became angry at Lewinsky, she testified, warning her that it was illegal to threaten the president of the United States. winsky was becoming a peril to Clinton, according to Starr's storyline. One obvious solution was for Clinton to get Lewinsky a job in New York, which she had hinted she might accept. That would keep her quiet -- and far from the White House. On Dec. 31, Lewinsky and Jordan had breakfast at the Park Hyatt Hotel and Lewinsky mentioned that she had drafts of notes she had planned to send to Clinton. Jordan said, ``Go home and make sure they're not there,'' which Lewinsky promptly did, Lewinsky said. Because Jordan knew that Lewinsky had been subpoenaed about whether she had a relationship with Clinton, those instructions sound suspicious. Of course, if Jordan did not believe the relationship happened, they appear far more innocent.."

Newsweek 9/21/98 Evan Thomas Michael Isikoff ".As Bill Clinton faced the grand jury, via video hookup from the White House on Aug. 17, he was asked, one more time, whether he had engaged in "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky.. Staring into the camera, Clinton replied, as he had during his deposition in the Jones case last January, that he had not.. Testifying under oath only three days later, on Aug. 20, Lewinsky complained that the president's description of no-hands sex "suggests some kind of service contract--that all I did was to perform oral sex on him and that's all this relationship was." Though she testified that she wasn't sure Clinton knew her name until after the third sexual encounter (he had been calling her "Kiddo"), Lewinsky described him as an avid lover. On Aug. 26, she testified how many times the president "touched and kissed her bare breasts" (nine); how many times he "stimulated" her genitals (four), and how many times he brought her to orgasm (three; once multiply). Then there were the 15 episodes of phone sex, and the cigar. The intimate particulars were so lurid that Lewinsky was spared from stating them directly to the grand jury. She was allowed to give her sworn testimony privately, in the office of the independent counsel, under questioning from female prosecutors.."

9/13/98 Enquirer Editorial "President Bill Clinton has lied his way out of the most powerful office in the world. To endure such a dishonest man as our national leader is more shame and humiliation than America can tolerate. He needs our prayers. He deserves our forgiveness if he sincerely repents. He needs professional help. But he cannot remain in the White House. If he lacks the basic decency, honor and sense of duty to resign, he should be impeached. To those who have followed Mr. Clinton with increasingly alarmed scrutiny, as we have, the Starr report on Friday confirmed our worst fears that America elected an immoral liar. Twice..The digging continues in Travelgate, Filegate, Whitewater and other White House sinkholes. Mr. Starr issued the Lewinsky findings because he was compelled to do so by law, as soon as he found "substantial and credible information . . . that may constitute grounds for an impeachment." He found plenty, including numerous examples of perjury -- in the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil case against the president and, incredibly, later in grand jury testimony. ..Mr. Starr is not finished. But Mr. Clinton is. .Watergate is no benchmark for impeaching a president, but comparisons are inevitable. And it boils down to this: President Nixon perverted the political system; President Clinton has perverted the presidency. Both lied and used the massive power of the White House to cover it up. Their own deceit held the seeds of their destruction. America didn't stand for a lying president then, and it's no time to start now.."

Washington Post 9/14/98 Dan Balz George Lardner Jr. "President Clinton's advisers flooded the Sunday talk shows yesterday in an effort to blunt the momentum building in Congress for a formal impeachment inquiry, but Republican and Democratic lawmakers warned the White House that more legal hairsplitting about the president's actions could doom his hopes of staying in office. .For now, public opinion continued to side with the president on the issue of whether his actions added up to impeachable offenses, according to a new Washington Post Poll and other surveys. White House officials continued to hold out hope that, if the views of the American people remain consistent, members of Congress may think twice before launching impeachment hearings later this year or next year. .Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said he was alarmed by what he called "a disconnect" between the president's repeated apologies in recent days for his relationship with Lewinsky and his lawyers' aggressive defense of his denials of that relationship over the past eight months. Lott warned that such a strategy almost guaranteed impeachment proceedings. "Unless something changes, I don't see how they avoid it," he said on "Fox News Sunday." Lott, who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon in 1974, said the evidence in Starr's report that Clinton lied to the grand jury on Aug. 17 and in his Jones deposition "is overwhelming." .There is talk among Republicans of expanding any inquiry beyond the Lewinsky scandal to include other topics that both Starr and Congress have been investigating. They include the Whitewater land deal, the firings in the White House travel office and the improper acquisition of FBI files on hundreds of Republicans from previous administrations. But one congressional source said Democrats would be "unalterably opposed" to any broad-gauged inquiry..Members of both parties said Congress should move expeditiously to get the matter resolved but disagreed over how quickly it could be done. Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) said Congress should aim to finish before the new Congress is sworn in next January. But Lott said he saw no way that an impeachment inquiry could be conducted that quickly. "We should not delay," he said. "At the same time, I do not think we should rush to judgment." "

Newsweek Howard Fineman 9/21/98 ".This is Bill Clinton as Kenneth Starr wants you to see him. In November 1995, the government was shut down over the budget; U.S. troops were about to go into Bosnia. The president was needy, and busy. So during his first sexual encounter with Monica Lewinsky, while they were fondling each other in a darkened hallway next to the Oval Office, he invited her into his small study when the telephone rang. As he chatted, according to Starr's report, the 22-year-old intern "performed oral sex" on Clinton. Two days later, she was back to deliver... pizza. She knew the routine. In the study, she later told Starr's investigators, she "performed oral sex" on the president while he lobbied a congressman for aid to the Balkans. In the 14 months that followed, Clinton had eight more sexual encounters with Monica. They had 15 phone-sex conversations. Then he lied about it to his aides, to the country and under oath. Starr thinks punishment should come next: for a perjurer and systematic obstructer of justice who deserves to be impeached and removed.."

Newsweek Howard Fineman 9/21/98 ".This is Bill Clinton as Bill Clinton wants you to see him. After nearly a month of halfhearted apologies, he unburdened himself at a prayer breakfast in the White House last Friday--only hours before Starr's report was to be released on the World Wide Web. The president told the story of how, preparing for the Jewish High Holidays, a Miami lawyer named Ira Leesfield had come across a Yom Kippur prayer he thought the president should see. He gave Clinton the "Gates of Repentance" liturgy on a trip to Miami last week. The economy had recovered, he told the president, and now "you can have your own recovery." In the East Room, the president conducted a one-man ecumenical service. There were Old Testament echoes of Ecclesiastes. "Now is the time for turning," the president read. "Turn us around, oh Lord, and bring us back toward You." There were Southern Baptist sentiments. "I have sinned," he declared. "I have repented." Clinton prays forgiveness comes next: for a flawed man trying to do right. The president promised to rely on "pastoral support" to help him stay on the right path. He would be stronger and better for his ordeal. He would be a lesson in the wages of sin and the possibility of redemption. He would be saved.."

Newsweek Howard Fineman 9/21/98 ".No, you don't. The first read of the documents, the polls and the pols indicate that the Starr Report itself won't cost Clinton his job--though it's hard to imagine it won't cost him what's left of his dignity and moral authority among all but the most loyal Democrats. One thing seems certain: people agree with Starr that perjury is a grave matter. If Clinton lied under oath in the Jones case, 49 percent think he should be removed; a 56 percent majority think he should leave if he perjured himself when testifying to the grand jury in the Starr investigation. But do we all really want to go there? Apparently not--so far.Among Democrats on the Hill, there was more panic before the report was released than after. Party sources say that contributions from telemarketing had actually spiked upward last week. "At least we know exactly what we're up against now," a top White House aide told a group of Democratic staffers.Republican polltakers tend to find more than Democratic ones, but there is a consensus that the president's troubles are certainly not good news. In a conference call among Democratic consultants last week, the word was: don't panic. Separately, though, at least one of them advised clients to steer clear of the president if necessary. "Recognize," consultant Alan Secrest told clients, "that you will NOT be judged... in terms of your level of support for Bill Clinton." Some worry that the report will draw Republicans to the polls as a way to protest President Clinton's actions. "Will our voters respond in kind to protect Democrats?" wondered California media consultant Bill Carrick. "Let's hope so."."

The Arizona Republic 9/13/98 Marianne Moody Jennings "Give that man a cigar, as it were. We have arrived at a point when I can no longer fulfill my obligations to write presidential analysis and commentary and still remain in good standing in my church. .My mother was appalled when the Nixon tapes were released, because the language was so coarse. We have canceled my mother's cable channels, for we dare not expose her to CNN. How far we have come. Speaking as a wife, with presidential moral leadership issues aside, I resent the husbandly example of Bill Clinton. When most men his age are focused on bursitis and cracked heels, Mr. Clinton behaves as a college freshman who has been drinking from a kegger hose. Further, will no one give to Mrs. Clinton the barbaric yawp she so needs, "Show a little dignity!" ..But for every conspiracy of silence, there is a dedicated prosecutor. Such a prosecutor is deeply offended by those who ignore the law and impose their will at great expense to others and no cost to themselves. To these prosecutors, the law is the great equalizer. And so they wait for a crack in the conspiracy of silence. For Mr. Clinton, the crack in the conspiracy of silence was a 21-year-old intern who fancied herself a Wallis Simpson. Kenneth Starr is such a prosecutor, and his report is not about sex. What Mr. Clinton and Monica Lewinsky did was immoral, irrational, irresponsible and reflective of a man in deep need of psychological counseling. To the extent an apology is relevant, it is so only in the context of this bizarre relationship. The significance of l'affaire Lewinsky was its entre into the conspiracy of silence. Beneath that conspiracy, Mr. Starr found all manner of mischief, all of which appeared in Article 1 of the impeachment against Mr. Nixon. ."

Jonathan Alter Newsweek 9/21/98 "Live by the word; die by it..All last week Clinton's words were a road map to his narcissism. He has repented for the sin, but not the spin. But first, let's get our insults straight. The president is a liar who desecrated the office; the prosecutor is gratuitous and power mad..The greatest surprise in this whole story is the ongoing gap between the elites--who now almost uniformly despise Clinton--and the people, who have stuck with him so far. The economy is an incomplete explanation. The tangled web the president weaves may destroy him. But it is also what has kept him alive.

Stuart Taylor Jr. Newsweek 9/21/98 ".Gerald Ford had it right. In 1970 the then GOP congressman said that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two thirds of the other body considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office." In other words, the decision to impeach or remove a president (or a judge) is inherently a political decision, not a legal one. So for all the titillating detail and technical legal points in Ken Starr's report, Bill Clinton's fate will not ultimately turn on the niceties of criminal law.The outcome will depend on whether Congress decides that Clinton has so irredeemably broken his bond of trust with the American people that they should undo the 1996 election. And that, in turn, will depend on the American people. For all the august language in the Constitution, it's really up to them."

Freeper report 9/13/98 Ruffled Feathers "The Same source who told Ruffled Feathers - correctly 2 weeks ago, that the Starr Report was ready to go, has some interesting information about what's to come. The Lewinsky report, was exactly what David Kendall has said it is -a personal attack on the president, designed to embarrass and humiliate Bill Clinton. But... For Damn sure... Starr hasn't even begun to show his hand. In the course of the 4 year, 40 millon dollar investigation, Starr has uncovered a vast array of criminal activity by the First Felons. Racketeering, Bribery and indeed a startling number of violatins against the RICO act. Source said, Bruce Lindsey is extremely nervous about his role in these events.If the American people were shocked by Starrs XXX recommendations to Congress, they will be blown away, by the other criminal activities that will go public, if Bill Clinton trys to make good on his promise to *fight this to the bitter end*. "

Freeper report on Referral 9/13/98 "After Mr. Carter drafted the affidavit, Ms. Lewinsky spoke to the President by phone on January 5th.(287) She asked the President if he wanted to see the draft affidavit. According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President replied that he did not need to see it because he had already "seen 15 others."(288)"."

New York Times William Safire 9/14/98 Op-Ed "..President Clinton's defense, however, is disappointingly weak: admit sin but deny crime, and beg forgiveness for lying while continuing to lie. The central fact making a mockery of his misty-eyed "repentance" is this: he refuses to admit, even now, that he and Monica Lewinsky had a sexual relationship. That phrase was precisely defined by a Federal judge to include oral sex and intimate touching. He denied it falsely in his Paula Jones deposition; he repeated the false denial before a Federal grand jury; and even today he would have the nation believe that he never once touched Ms. Lewinsky's proffered bosom during their 10 Oval Office assignations. Nobody believes him because his look-ma-no-hands assertion so patently defies common sense... Thus, his continued lying is not irrational. He runs great financial and legal risks in telling the whole truth. That's why we see his legalistic contortions and semantic evasions that turn truth on its head. Clinton's tactic is to limit potential loss. But this continued lying will expose his false contrition, erode popular support and hasten his political demise.."

New York Times William Safire 9/14/98 Op-Ed "The scope of the Independent Counsel's initial referral is too narrow: Ken Starr was hired to look into worse abuses than the cover-up of a sex scandal..Starr is duty-bound, after these four years, to come up with indictments or criminal informations on the Whitewater obstruction, the Clintons' abuse of Justice Department prosecution to make places for travel office patronage, and the invasion of 900 F.B.I. files by White House snoops. Or to report on those investigations if they exonerate Hillary, Bruce Lindsey, Craig Livingstone et al, which would force calumniators like me to eat crow and thereby lessen impeachment heat. ..Surprises may be in store. "All phases of the investigation are now nearing completion," Starr promises in his report. Do they show a pattern of deceit and delay, of stonewalling and spinning, of perjury and abuse of power on heavy political matters -- Clinton habits so dramatically demonstrated in the cover-up of a sex scandal?."

Freeper USNA74 observation 9/13/98 "Kelly Flynn, a single female officer, had "sexual relations" (in whatever tortured definition WJC wants to use) with a man who presented himself as un- married. When confronted, she lied about the relationship (and she wasn't even under oath). Despite being a fast-riser and the only female B-52 bomber pilot in the Air Force, the military kicked her out and she narrowly avoided a courts-martial. But remember, the reason the military (read Bill Clinton's administration) pursued this case so vigorously and bounced her out is not because of the sex, it was because she lied about it (and didn't follow orders to stop the contact). They said they had lost their trust and confidence in her because of her lying. She wasn't censured. If it's good enough for Kelly Flynn, it's good enough for the Commander-in-Chief."

9/13/98 San Jose Mercury News editorial "That is not an easy thing for us to say. We endorsed him with enthusiasm in 1992, and less enthusiastically, but with hope, in 1996. When he first campaigned here six years ago, Clinton seemed too good to be true: a man of obvious intellect, radiating charm, he was both an articulate speaker and a good listener. Unfortunately, that first impression was too good to be true. Along with those assets he had huge liabilities, as the nation has painfully learned. Bad judgment. Flawed character. Disrespect for the law. A crass willingness to abuse other people and the prerogatives of high office. He also had the brazen ability to lie convincingly -- to his family, his staff, his Cabinet. In the White House. In a deposition, to a grand jury. Under oath. On television, to the entire nation. He looked us all in the eye, and lied. His sworn duty is to protect and lead the United States. Instead he has dragged it into a crisis born of his personal fallibilities. He has behaved scandalously. He has shattered the dignity of the office of the presidency. He has broken the law. An honorable man would leave of his own volition.Kenneth Starr's report to Congress is not a revelation but a confirmation. It contains little that is new, except for salacious details -- but these add moral weight to Starr's accusations. They destroy Clinton's last vestiges of pretense that this was not a sexual relationship."

Washington Weekly 9/14/98 Marvin Lee "Starr's report was met with disappointment and anger by those who have followed his investigation closely since Whitewater. It covered only the Monica Lewinsky affair. Why focus on a silly private affair when there are so many criminal allegations in Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate and the Foster investigation? Starr's report itself gives the answer to this question: From the outset, it was our strong desire to complete all phases of the investigation before deciding whether to submit to Congress information -- if any -- that may constitute grounds for an impeachment. But events and the statutory command of Section 595(c) have dictated otherwise. As the investigation into the President's actions with respect to Ms. Lewinsky and the Jones litigation progressed, it became apparent that there was a significant body of substantial and credible information that met the Section 595(c) threshold. As that phase of the investigation neared completion, it also became apparent that a delay of this Referral until the evidence from all phases of the investigation had been evaluated would be unwise. Starr assures us that his investigation is still ongoing regarding "events related to the Rose Law Firm's representation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association; events related to the firings in the White House Travel Office; and events related to the use of FBI files." And Starr characterizes Linda Tripp as "a witness in three ongoing OIC investigations." In addition to those mentioned above, that would seem to include the investigation into the White House handling of Foster's papers after his death. The report further adds this time frame: "All phases of the investigation are now nearing completion. This Office will soon make final decisions about what steps to take, if any, with respect to the other information it has gathered". If, eventually, no indictments or referrals come of these investigations, Starr can expect to face the wrath of those in the one-third of the electorate who have followed these investigations closely, and in opinion polls consistently expressed the belief that what has been uncovered so far make the President unfit to hold the office of the President. As for the remaining two-thirds of the electorate who have consistently expressed support for the President, their attention can only be gained with simple stories of sex, lies and adultery. The same goes for the mainstream media. So now we have the Monica report. The reaction of these key supporters to the report will have a significant bearing on whether the President is impeached or not..one thing is clear. Clinton has broken the law and must be tried, and if convicted, must serve his sentence (woe to the President that dares pardon him). Enterprising reporters will have no difficulty finding in federal prison inmates who serve because of behavior similar to that of the President: an alleged sexual harassment charge followed by perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice. If the rule of law is to be maintained, the belief of the people in the judicial system must not be destroyed by letting the President get away with crimes that his Justice Department has put others in jail for. "

The Pioneer 9/13/98 Narayan Keshavan "The Starr report, perhaps the steamiest 445-page document to roll out of the US Government printing press ever, exploded on the Capitol Hill and much of the world like a Tomahawk on Saturday. The report, exposing kinky passion and alleged criminal activity, is slowly, but surely, distilling the William Jefferson Clinton presidency into the bawdiest joke in US history. Independent counsel Kenneth W Starr has laid bare every conceivable, and perhaps unconceivable, detail of the sexual hijinks between the President and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky..One of Mr Clinton's loyalists, Rep Cynthia McKinney, a Democrat from Georgia, said: "We are all poorer because of the mistake of a man who has squandered an historic opportunity, disgracing himself in the eyes of the world and his family." Another staunch Clinton defender, Rep Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, was more harsh in her comment: "What a jerk!" Capitol Hill sources told The Pioneer that what left many lawmakers shocked was the revelation that Mr Clinton was having oral sex with Ms Lewinsky while speaking over phone to three Congress members. This, among other sensational details in the Starr report, guarantees that the House will hold impeachment hearings on Mr Clinton's fitness for office, lawmakers asserted. "It clearly means impeachment hearings. I don't think there's any doubt at all," said Rep George Radanovich, a California Republican, who had on Friday introduced a House resolution seeking Mr Clinton's resignation. "I just can't imagine that there will not be impeachment hearings," said Rep Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia.. Rep Henry J Hyde, the Illinois Republican who heads the Judiciary Committee, which now takes the lead in determining whether to open an impeachment hearing, said: "Please don't forget when all the distractions and definitions have been pronounced, at the end of it all, we are about one mighty task -- to vindicate the rule of law."."

AP 9/12/98 Anna Driver Reuters "Americans woke up Saturday to something not usually found in their morning newspapers -- X-rated content warnings on news about the sexually explicit report accusing President Clinton of possibly impeachable offenses. Editorial pages on the day after independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report was released publicly on the Internet were filled with scathing condemnation of the president's behavior, calls for his resignation, and cautious ``wait and see'' attitudes.. The Starr report invoked the wrath of many editorial writers, some of whom called for the president's resignation. The Cincinnati Post said ``Clinton should spare the nation the agony of a protracted, ugly (impeachment) process -- and which, even if he succeeded, would leave him a political cripple. He should resign.'' The Washington Times wrote bluntly, ``Go, you despicable man, go and be gone.'' An editorial in the New York Time raged ominously: ``A president without public respect or Congressional support cannot last.'' The paper is often supportive of Clinton's policies but took him to task for using the White House for ``sad little trysts with a desperately star-struck employee.'' The Los Angeles Times also wrote of a crippled presidency, and said, ``Meanwhile, the nation will have at its head a severely wounded president, his credibility shattered, a laughingstock to some, a reprobate to others.'' Many editorial writers said that the specter of presidential impeachment and the charges in the report were so grave that the report deserved careful consideration from Congress as well as the American people. A Miami Herald editorial read, ``...Congress and the public must show the calm dispassion that, thus far, neither Mr. Clinton nor Mr. Starr has been able to muster.'' The Tennessean in Nashville said in its lead editorial Saturday, ``People can judge President's actions,'' and urged ''It is imperative, particularly in this election season, that constitutional procedures be followed with caution and with no rush to judgment.'' And the Cincinnati Enquirer added ``The presidency hangs by a frayed thread. Nothing is a greater public concern than judging the fitness of Bill Clinton to remain in office ... Mr. Clinton had his chance to tell his side from the most powerful pulpit in the land. He chose to lie instead.''

9/13/98 Drudge report ".The DRUDGE REPORT has uncovered a shocking White House video that shows President Clinton sneaking into a private space just off the Oval Office -- the same area Monica Lewinsky serviced Clinton -- with a young mystery woman! The tape runs slightly more than 10 minutes and was obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT in Washington late Friday on condition that its origin and owner not be disclosed.."

Copley News Service San Diego Union Tribune George Condon Jr. "It is a measure of the trouble facing President Clinton that, even after suffering through perhaps the most humiliating day in the history of the presidency, it is almost certain that worse is still ahead..No presidential tears -- and they seemed near as Clinton apologized once again yesterday morning -- can wash away the tawdry reality that is so starkly presented in the 445-page report from independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr. There have been so many leaks that there is an air of familiarity to the immoral acts outlined in the report. But that in no way reduces the shock of seeing all the allegations laid out in one scathing volume..Even the day of President Richard Nixon's resignation was less humiliating than the release of this report. "I can't think of anything to compare," said Bruce Buchanan, a presidential scholar at the University of Texas. "Nixon had days similar to this. Andrew Johnson had days when he was marginalized . . . but never on terms of moral turpitude. This takes us into a realm of outrageous violation of the moral expectations of the office." But instead of denying the behavior, the White House officials have settled on a "defense" that, in effect, says: We agree that your daughters, wives and sisters are not safe with the president. And we agree that his behavior is appalling. But, hey, that does not mean it is impeachable. They may be correct on that score. It is, after all, up to the sometimes skittish members of the House of Representatives to determine what are and are not impeachable offenses. And there is nothing in Starr's report to match President Richard Nixon's willingness to wield the might of the federal government -- the FBI, the CIA, the IRS -- to achieve political goals. But the shame of having Americans reading about his sometimes kinky sex life outside the bonds of marriage is certainly not the end for Clinton. There is much more ahead: hearings to be televised, audio tapes to be heard, stained dresses to be held up to inspection, public ridicule to be endured, boxes of evidence to be uncrated and pored over. In the end, this president is likely to be discredited, humiliated and stripped of all moral authority. But he also could retain his office until Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2001.In general -- and this speaks volumes about how far Clinton has sunk -- it was good news for the president that the general reaction from Democrats was simply disgust at his sleazy behavior. None of them rushed to the cameras to call for impeachment..Clinton's ace in the hole, added Sabato, is that his fate is controlled by "millions of people who are repeatedly naive and gullible. They hold the balance of power."

9/12/98 Cincinnati Post Editorial "Special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report to Congress marks one of the greatest embarrassments in the history of the American presidency. In relentless, convincing, excruciating detail, it lays bare the sexual and emotional relationship between the president of the United States and an immature, flirtatious young intern - and the efforts undertaken by President Clinton to conceal the relationship. Relatively little of what has been released is new or surprising. But that doesn't make it any less bad. The case for perjury, especially in the Paula Jones deposition, is strong to the point of being undeniable. Clinton repeatedly lied under oath in depositions in a civil lawsuit, and he lied under oath to a federal grand jury. The case for obstructing justice is also convincing, though perhaps not as simple to prove. But Starr's report makes it clear that Clinton not only tried to cover up damaging evidence and keep Monica Lewinsky from telling the truth about their relationship, he also lied to his top aides knowing they would convey false information to the grand jury..But this is about more than the legal question of whether President Clinton is guilty of ''high crimes and misdemeanors,'' the intentionally ambiguous standard set forth in the Constitution. It's fundamentally a political and practical question: does this man deserve to finish his term, and if he does, can he govern effectively? The answer on both counts is ''No.'' ."

AP 9/12/98 "The report that kills,'' said a headline in the French tabloid Le Parisien. "Bill Clinton executed on the Internet..Britain's Independent newspaper, which carried a huge chunk of text, worried that U.S. leadership was in doubt. "With Russia in crisis, NATO crying out for leadership in Kosovo, nuclear tensions high in the Indian subcontinent and economic difficulties threatening to destabilize large regions of the world, now is not the time for the leader of the world's remaining superpower to be tripping over his own trousers,'' the paper said. .Feeling was particularly strong in Asia. Calling the report "vivid and disgusting,'' the major Japanese newspaper Asahi said the United States needs strong leadership now because of the Asian economic crisis, fluctuations on the U.S. stock market and the threat of terrorism against Americans. "If this damages the credibility of American politics as well as the leadership of President Clinton, it can no longer be treated as a personal problem,'' said an editorial in Sunday's edition. "

New York Times John Broder Don Van natta Jr. ".The report contains accusations of crimes for which Clinton could face criminal prosecution if he leaves office through resignation or impeachment. Some prosecutors in Starr's office want to keep the Federal grand jury here in operation for another year to indict him.. The authors then place the blame squarely on the President for the slow pace of the investigation and the catalogue of lies told to the grand jury by Clinton and his lieutenants. "The President has pursued a strategy of deceiving the American people and Congress in January 1998, delaying and impeding the criminal investigation for seven months, and deceiving the American people and Congress again in August 1998." In perhaps the most damaging portion of the report, prosecutors say that Clinton lied under oath five times, both in the Paula Jones deposition and in his grand jury testimony last month, when he denied that he had had "a sexual affair, a sexual relationship or sexual relations" with Ms. Lewinsky.."

Fox News 9/12/98 Will Lester AP "Americans are almost twice as likely to believe Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's version of events concerning President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky than they are to believe the president's account, according to a poll. That could pose problems for the president because Starr claims in his report that the president tried to sway Ms. Lewinsky's testimony, a claim the president has denied."

Katharine Seelye New York Times "Monica Lewinsky told investigators that Vernon Jordan, a top Washington lawyer and longtime confidant of President Clinton, directed her to destroy evidence of her relationship with Clinton, according to the Starr report made public Friday. Jordan was also actively involved in seeking a job for Lewinsky, and when he succeeded, according to the report, he called up Clinton and declared: ``Mission accomplished.'' As part of his investigation over the last several months, Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, has been trying to determine whether Jordan had asked Lewinsky to lie under oath about her relationship with the president. Jordan has emphatically denied that he asked her to do so..Several days after she was subpoenaed on Dec. 19, 1997, Jordan advised Lewinsky to throw out copies of notes that she had written to the president, she testified. She was afraid that her erstwhile friend, Linda Tripp, had seen them. ``According to Ms. Lewinsky, Jordan said: `Go home and make sure they're not there,' '' the report said. Lewinsky testified that she understood that Jordan was advising her to throw away any copies or drafts of notes that she had sent to the president. It said Lewinsky then went home and discarded copies of about 50 notes she had written to Clinton.."

9/11/98 NOW Patricia Ireland "In the wake of the president's sexual relations with an intern in the White House, women's progress is surely at risk -- less from the president's appalling, albeit unfortunately common, behavior than from the impact of this scandal on electoral politics in 1998 and beyond.. We call on Congress, the president and business leaders to launch a national campaign to stop sexual harassment and sex discrimination. From the Oval Office in Washington, DC to the Ford manufacturing plant in Chicago, all employees -- women and men alike -- deserve to be respected for their abilities, to have support in balancing their family and work obligations, and to be free of harassment, discrimination and assault in the workplace. Protection of these most basic employment rights must be strengthened and enforced..."

Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh) Jeff Domenick 9/12/98 "Looming impeachment proceedings against President Clinton have diminished the position of the United States as the world's only superpower, hampered relations with our allies and may embolden rogue nations and terrorists, experts said Friday..R. Daniel McMichael, a consultant on national and international security affairs, said he is greatly concerned. "Anytime a head of state is weakened, it's a golden rule that the rogues will be taking advantage of that," said McMichael, a Shadyside resident. "A weakened president certainly makes the U.S. more vulnerable to adventurism by foreign powers and foreign groups.".All of the experts polled agreed a quick resolution to the crisis is best - either by dropping the inquiry, through Clinton's resignation or moving the impeachment process forward as fast as possible.."

9/12/98 Boston Globe John Ellis ".There is and will be no escape, of course. The charges on the table are serious and substantial. The Office of the Independent Counsel accuses the president of perjury, witness tampering, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power. The case for perjury seems open and shut. The rest of the charges are, at some level, inarguable. They are the lies compounded. We've watched them develop over the course of the last eight months. The White House has adopted a four-part political strategy to deal with its final crisis. Its components are contrition, proportionality, defamation, and delay.."

AP 9/13/98 "While others on the White House staff stewed about Monica Lewinsky hovering around the Oval Office, Betty Currie came to work on weekends just so President Clinton could sneak the former intern into his office. A faithful churchgoer, the presidential secretary suspected an affair but didn't want to know about it, abruptly stopping the talkative former intern once from telling her details. She sometimes asked Secret Service officers to keep Ms. Lewinsky's visits off the books, and used the code name ``Kay'' on message slips. She retrieved subpoenaed presidential gifts from the former intern's apartment and was summoned not once, but twice, by the president in what prosecutors believe was an effort to coach her testimony. And when finally called to testify, Mrs. Currie told it all to prosecutors - providing what could be among the most damaging testimony to propel impeachment proceedings against her boss, according to a report to Congress by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.."

Freeper Republican 9/12/98 (summarized) on mini bombshells in the Referral 1. Podesta's testimony that Clinton asked Richardson to find a job for her - while on a flight to Latin America, 2. Currie gave 3 different versions of testimony about whether she informed the President, 3. Currie and Clinton had a second meeting and 4. Clinton's call to Monica about Betty's brother, leaving a message - seems he may have also talked about the subpoena, 5. Currie's actions to avoid Gooding.

9/12/98 Marilyn Rauber Brian Blomquist New York Post "President Clinton showed an uncanny ability to juggle business with pleasure, talking by phone with two congressmen and a top aide while getting oral sex, Kenneth Starr's report says. Clinton apparently showed off his impressive talent the first time he and Monica Lewinsky ever had sex, the report says. Lewinsky said in their first encounter during the November 1995 government shutdown, they were grabbing and kissing each other in the hall near the Oval Office when he got a phone call. Lewinsky said we moved from the hallway into the back office, where she performed oral sex on him while he talked on the phone with a member of Congress..Lewinsky also claimed she performed oral sex on Clinton on Easter Sunday in 1996 as the president discussed campaign strategy on the phone with political guru Dick Morris.."

9/12/98 Marilyn Rauber New York Post ".The day after he privately lashed out at Health Secretary Donna Shalala for suggesting he lacked moral leadership, Clinton admitted he's wrestling with the pride and the anger which cloud judgment, lead people to excuse and compare and to blame and complain.."

New York Post 9/12/98 Gersh Kuntzman "Freud famously observed once that even though a cigar is the ultimate phallic symbol, sometimes it's just a cigar. Now we find out that sometimes it's also a sex toy.."

New York Post Rita Delfiner 9/12/98 "Constitutional-law experts sharply disagreed yesterday on whether having kinky sex with an intern and lying about it are grounds for impeaching a president.. Hamilton believes Starr's report does outline grounds for impeachment because the president is the head of the branch of government charged with enforcing the laws and there is credible evidence he has undermined the judicial process. These are impeachable offenses, but the Congress is not under an obligation, she said. They have discretion on whether to impeach."

9/12/98 New York Times Robert Schuller "Now that the report of Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, has been delivered to Congress, the big question is, What does the future hold for President Clinton? Will he finish his second term? .Now, nearly two years into his second term, we find our country deeply divided by a breach for which President Clinton himself, by his own admission, is responsible. It is not a breach between Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, but a breach between those committed to high and honorable morality and those who live on a sliding scale of immorality or amorality. The breach is evident in his own family and his own marriage.."

Freeper post from Starr Report "Mr. Bowles, the White House Chief of Staff,(446) confirmed Mr. Podesta's account of the President's January 21, 1998, statement in which the President denied having a sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. Mr. Bowles testified: EB: And this was the day this huge story breaks. And the three of us walked in together -- Sylvia Matthews, John Podesta, and me -- into the Oval Office, and the President was standing behind his desk. Q: About what time of day is this? EB: This is approximately 9:00 in the morning, or something -- you know, in that area. And he looked up at us and he said the same thing he said to the American people. He said, "I want you to know I did not have sexual relationships [sic] with this woman Monica Lewinsky. I did not ask anybody to lie. And when the facts come out, you'll understand."(447) Mr. Bowles testified that he took the President's statements seriously: "All I can tell you is: This guy who I've worked for looked me in the eye and said he did not have sexual relationships with her. And if I didn't believe him, I couldn't stay. So I believe him."(448) Mr. Bowles repeated the President's false and misleading statement to the grand jury. "

Gordon Liddy Show 9/12/98 Freeeper Report "New Starr report is 2600 pages long."

New York Post 9/14/98 Deborah Orin "...I think it's all unraveling. What people are starting to wonder is, if the president gets away with lying under oath, then why should anyone touch the Bible and swear to tell the truth in court? says Zogby... Zogby thinks it will take time for the tawdry mess to sink in with the public, time for people to debate over the water cooler whether the president should get away with lies when 6-year-olds get punished. And to get turned off by the weasel words of Clinton lawyers who claim that sex isn't sex, lies aren't perjury, and it's fine for the president to self-righteously talk up the V-chip to keep raunchy pictures off TV but conduct XXX-rated behavior in the Oval Office. Both Goeas and Zogby predict the moment of truth will come after the November election, in which every sign says the Democratic Party will get killed - and it will be seen as a thumbs-down referendum on Clinton. There are also some big land mines ahead for Clinton that could produce new explosions: Clinton lawyer David Kendall is accusing Starr of taking some witness testimony out of context and demanding that it all be released. Be careful what you want - you'll get it. And still more tawdry, yucky details. The judge who dismissed the Paula Jones lawsuit has hinted she may hold Clinton in contempt for lying when he denied sex with Monica Lewinsky. That would kill any claim that lying in the Jones case didn't really matter. And of course if the stock market goes down, Clinton is in big trouble. There will be an early test today when Clinton comes to New York to raise more campaign cash and some of the state's most respected Democrats, like Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, plan to stay away.The basic problem is that Clinton puts his own personal interests ahead of the country, Black said. If he really had a sense of shame, he'd be gone already. "

Washington Times Jerry Seper 9/14/98 "Kenneth W. Starr's case for impeaching President Clinton is only the first public accounting in a massive ongoing investigation --contrary to White House claims that the Whitewater probe is dead..Mr. Starr will soon make decisions on final reports to a three- judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and possible indictments, the report added. Mr. Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, attacked the Monica Lewinsky report this week as a "hit-and-run smear campaign," saying it was nothing but an attempt to damage the president with "irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious allegations." He asked, "Where's Whitewater?" But the report's introduction notes that Mr. Starr's four-year Whitewater probe, all but forgotten in the crush of sordid public revelations of Mr. Clinton's sexual dalliances with the former White House intern, continues to target a number of areas:.."

New York Post 9/14/98 Steve Dunleavy "HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON has made it clear she does not want to resign, so to maintain her presidency, she has to get going when the going gets tough. .Joseph Mercurio, a leading political consultant, said yesterday on Meet the Press: On one hand he ^Clinton_ is asking forgiveness, and on the other hand he is fighting Starr tooth and nail. On Friday, Clinton said he wanted to talk to the American people and put legal arguments aside. And what do you think he gets his lawyers to do? Exactly what got him in trouble in the first place. And that is trying to thread a Sherman tank through the eye of a needle by using yadda, yadda legal talk. Hillary, in comparison to the rest of the White House wackos, has an IQ as high as Everest. And she is not going to let these mouthpieces in pinstripe suits shoot her down. Their continual insistence that Clinton did not commit perjury is bordering on the laughable. Jonathan Turley, law professor at George Washington University, and one of the saner minds on the Beltway, said of Clinton doubletalk and outright lying: We have to stop this foolishness. He took an oath to God ^in front of a grand jury_. Brit Hume, of Fox television, added a slightly more Runyonesque comment:If this was a court of law, the judge would have to recess for 10 minutes while the jury stopped laughing. ..And that is why Hillary has to walk past Bill's locked bedroom today, go to the Oval Office, and return White House lawyers Kendall and Ruff to private practice. And then they can defend bank robbers caught in the act of a heist. Then they can argue: Your honor, he did not spend any of the money he stole. He returned it to the cops immediately and he says he's sorry. I respectfully ask that my client should go free. He's very sorry. "

Washington Times Mary Ann Akers Joyce Price "Congressional Democrats urged President Clinton yesterday to drop his legalistic denial of perjury and instead try to reach some kind of a plea agreement with the House Judiciary Committee to avoid impeachment. "If you come and say that to the American people -- that 'I'm legally correct, I didn't have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky,' --you're going to lose," Sen. Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Democrat, said on CBS' "Face the Nation" yesterday. Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, complained that Mr. Clinton "lies by being technically accurate. I wish he would stop it. I wish he would have learned that 'I didn't inhale' ... is just not worthy of him and everybody sees through it. "He's not 14 anymore trying to outsmart the principal."..On "Fox News Sunday," Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said it's clear Mr. Clinton perjured himself, adding that Mr. Clinton has said as much himself. Robert Reich, labor secretary during Mr. Clinton's first term, advised Mr. Clinton not to engage in "legal sophistry." "If he lied, he should say he lied," Mr. Reich said on CNN's "Late Edition."."

Washington Times 9/14/98 David Lambro Joyce Price "Democrats and Republicans alike say the sex-and-lies scandal that has brought President Clinton to the brink of impeachment may have already rendered him ineffective for the rest of his term. "We really have to make a decision here as to whether President Clinton can continue to govern," Senate Judiciary Committee member Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, said yesterday on CNN's "Late Edition.".Said Mr. Zogby: "The real issue is whether he will be able to effectively mold public opinion and transform it into a governing agenda and I think that the answer is no. He's wounded and that is only going to get worse. Can he get anything done? I don't think so."."

Washington Times 9/14/98 Nancy Roman "Even here in one of the most liberal, safely Democratic congressional districts in the United States, President Clinton is in trouble. One Democrat in the hotly contested race for the congressional seat once held by John F. Kennedy and House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill says the president should consider stepping down. And scores of voters in the district and in neighboring Cambridge voiced anger and disappointment with a president most of them supported."The personal choices the president has made doesn't show a very good sense of judgment," said John Upton, an architect in Boston who voted twice for Mr. Clinton. "I'm kind of on the line. It's a very serious issue, and he should be held accountable. Whether he should step down, I don't know."."

Chicago Sun Times 9/14/98 Robert Novak "The feckless White House attempt to delay release of the independent counsel's report and, following that, yet another attack on Kenneth Starr are viewed by cool, old Democratic heads as the latest of multiple blunders that climaxed Aug. 17. This was the day President Clinton spent four hours before the grand jury and four minutes before television cameras--two appearances that may have doomed his presidency. That his brief speech was a disaster was immediately obvious. But only in the last two weeks have his supporters realized there is a strong case that he perjured himself before the grand jury--as alleged by the Starr Report's Ground No. 2 for impeachment.``Clinton will say anything--anything,'' one Democrat told me.``Idiotic'' was by no means the harshest description of this tactic by Democratic politicians.The rebuttal reads like a legal brief and confirmed that the lawyers are still in charge at the White House.The result has been the president's circumlocutions, topped by his politically self-destructive statement Aug. 17 that his deposition denying sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky was ``legally accurate.'' The Kendall style persisted with the rebuttal dwelling on definitions of sexual relations--a tactic justifying the Starr report's salacious detail. Another Clinton lawyer, former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, is a skilled, experienced politician. But he may have committed the gravest mistake of all by winning his argument for the president to appear before the grand jury. Robert Bennett, Clinton's private lawyer in the Paula Jones case, contended in vain that only misfortune could result from such an appearance. The president could expect no mercy from Starr's lawyers, bearing the scars of years of lashing by the White House, including continuing threats of disbarment..."

San Francisco Chronicle 9/14/98 Debra Saunders "THE PRESIDENT is a misogynist. A man cannot esteem women and treat them as he has treated his wife, his daughter and Monica Lewinsky. A man cannot respect women, while spreading the gospel that oral sex is not sex, at least for the male recipient. Bill Clinton is willing to set sexual relations back decades -- worse, many feminists seem willing to let him -- to an era when it was acceptable for a man to fool around, expected that he treat the workplace as a sexual playground and a given that he would expect pleasure, without giving any in return.The Starr report describes Lewinsky servicing the president while he chatted on the phone with other pols. Can you think of a more sexist picture? Is this the future America wants?

AP Jim Abrams 9/14/98 "President Clinton should stop his attorneys' ``legal hairsplitting'' with Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr if he wants to save his presidency, say lawmakers preparing to sift through thousands of documents related to Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky..Key Republicans said Hyde's panel might be empowered to go beyond Starr's investigation of Clinton's sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky to other issues including Whitewater and questionable fund-raising activities by the Clinton- Gore re-election campaign in 1996. But a Democratic congressional aide said Democrats would vigorously oppose such an expansion.."

CNS Ben Anderson 9/14/98 "A House Resolution introduced Friday is calling for President Clinton "to immediately resign the Office of President of the United States." Representative George Radanovich (R-CA) is sponsoring the resolution which cites obstruction of justice, false testimony, seduction and a failing memory on the part of President Clinton as so destroying the integrity of his office that he needs to resign immediately.."

CNS Ben Anderson 9/14/98 "A majority of Americans are ashamed to have Bill Clinton as President of the United States and more than two-thirds see him as a negative roll model, according to a poll released today by New York polling company Zogby International. "Are you proud or ashamed to have Bill Clinton as your president?" the survey asked. 50.1 percent said they were ashamed while only 31.9 per cent said they were proud that Bill Clinton is President of the United States. .While Clinton's job approval rating fell 3.8 percentage points to 55.0 percent since August, Zogby suggested that such a higher number is simply an indication that people are satisfied with the direction in which the country is moving.."

Washington Post Bradley Graham 9/15/98 "Throughout the controversy this year stemming from President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the nation's military leaders have had little to say in public about the crisis embroiling their commander-in-chief. Privately, some acknowledge deep concerns that the president's adulterous affair and misleading statements may cause a devastating and irrecoverable erosion in his standing among service members and further damage sagging morale in the ranks.."

L.A. Times 9/15/98 Ronald Brownstein "In the capital, Democratic office-holders are scattered and conflicted on how to respond to the scandal now threatening to consume Bill Clinton's presidency. But the latest polls show that around the country rank-and-file Democrats are surprisingly unified -- not in endorsing Clinton's conduct, but in resisting any action that might force him from office..``For Democratic voters you really are getting down to that basic question now, and there is near unanimity that they want him as president,'' says Democratic pollster Guy Molyneux. Still, McInturff notes the scandal may have its largest impact this fall not by driving Democratic voters to Republican candidates, but by persuading Democrats to simply stay home out of disgust. (That's what happened during the GOP landslide in 1994.) The Times survey found no evidence of that, but other recent polls have shown Republicans displaying considerably more interest in the election than Democrats."

Scripps-Howard Joan Lowy 9/15/98 "Facing the possibility of significant election losses because of the sex scandal that has enveloped President Clinton, Democrats must weigh whether it is better or worse for them for Clinton to remain in office. Thus far, relatively few Democrats have called on Clinton to resign and even fewer that he be impeached. That could change if public opinion shifts against the president.. ``Democrats will try for censure because they think that's the way out, but what they are not clearly focusing on is that it is a road for another electoral disaster,'' said University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. Sabato predicted Democrats will suffer serious losses in Senate, House, gubernatorial, and state legislative races across the country if Clinton remains in office.An uptick in Republican turnout in what is otherwise expected to be a low turnout election could shift the outcome in a dozen or more closely contested House races and deliver the GOP the additional five Senate seats they need to prevent Democratic filibusters."

Dallas Morning News 9/15/98 Richard Whittle "The House Judiciary Committee could vote this week to unveil the Aug. 17 videotaped grand jury testimony in which President Clinton admitted ``intimate contact'' with Monica Lewinsky. The videotaped testimony is among the sealed materials independent counsel Kenneth Starr submitted to the House last week along with his 445-page report on the Lewinsky matter.."

FOX NEWS 9/14/98 Freeper Report "Dick Morris was being interviewed on Fox news and just said words to the effect that Hillary Clinton could be indicted..... "

NY Times 9/15/98 James Bennett " It is surely the strangest debate ever to transfix the nation's leaders: Does oral sex constitute sexual relations, and did President Clinton lie when he testified that it did not? The consensus on Capitol Hill is that it does and he did..But despite increasing pressure from Congress, Clinton has no intention of saying that he perjured himself when he denied under oath that he had had a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, his advisers say. To do so would be to declare that he broke the law. And an admission like that, some of his advisers say, would make impeachment proceedings more likely and might also expose him to criminal prosecution. But some of Clinton's advisers acknowledge that his defense against perjury is politically if not legally weak. On the NBC program ``Meet the Press'' on Sunday, White House counsel Charles Ruff seemed to be preparing for the possibility that the public may not accept the perjury defense. He said that perjury was ``clearly not'' an impeachable offense.."

Fox News 9/14/98 Freeper Excerpt "Steve Grossman, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, offered high praise for Clinton, reeling from revelations in independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress that he received oral sex from Lewinsky on a number of occasions then tried to argue it did not constitute sexual relations. Said Grossman: "Mr. President, it seems to me that you have demonstrated, at least in my adult lifetime, a higher commitment to the kind of moral leadership that I value in public service, in public policy, than any person that I have ever met.'' "

AP Pete Yost 9/14/98 "President Clinton is again delaying the testimony of top aides in the Monica Lewinsky investigation including confidant Bruce Lindsey, renewing a claim of executive privilege abandoned in June, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr disclosed in his report. Starr's referral to the House revealed that Clinton is keeping Lindsey and White House lawyers Lanny Breuer and Cheryl Mills from testifying about contacts with the president. Mills is declining to testify about contact with presidential secretary Betty Currie, a key grand jury witness, and Breuer is refusing to discuss contacts with the president about Mrs. Currie. The earlier claim involving Lindsey covered contacts with grand jury witnesses..``I strongly felt we should not appeal your victory on the executive privilege issue,'' Clinton replied. Four days after making that statement to the grand jury, Clinton filed his notice of appeal on Breuer."

New York Post 9/14/98 Editorial "It is a measure of Bill Clinton's current predicament that his defenders do not dispute the mountains of facts and evidence presented in the Starr Report. The case for Bill Clinton, then, comes down to two legalistic arguments: 1) His repeated lies under oath do not constitute perjury or obstruction of justice. 2) Even if they do, they are not impeachable offenses because they only involve sex, not a flagrant abuse of presidential power..But that reduces the argument against impeachment to a simple question of Bill Clinton's motives: Committing perjury merely to cover up a sordid little tryst isn't really a crime, his defenders say. Only perjury and obstruction of justice on a Nixonian level concerning public policy justifies removal from office. But the Constitution and the Supreme Court are the great levelers of American politics. And when the Supreme Court renders decisions based on the Constitution, it does not set one standard for presidents and another for everyone else. As Kenneth Starr made clear in his report, the Supreme Court has been outspoken on the question of perjury and the seriousness with which it must be challenged - no mat-ter what the initial motive. "In this constitiutional process of securing a witness' testimony," the Court wrote, "perjury simply has no place whatever. Perjured testimony is an obvious and flagrant affront to the basic concepts of judicial proceedings. Effective restraints against this type of egregious offense are therefore imperative." In short, the Court ruled, "perjury is an obstruction of justice." And nowhere in their many opinions on the subject did the justices ever add the words, "except when it's only about sex." Bill Clinton could have avoided the abyss that now confronts him had he simply uttered two words - "I'm sorry" - to Paula Jones in the settlement negotiations that almost reached fruition three years ago. Instead, under the "scorched-earth" policy that is the hallmark of his administration, the president stonewalled and unleashed his pit bulls to tarnish Jones' reputation.."

Reuters 9/14/98 "Democratic leaders in Congress warned President Clinton on Monday his defense in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, based on a legalistic definition of sex, was crumbling and he risked losing support in any impeachment battle.."

Boston Herald 9/18/98 Don Feder ".Who's responsible for the creep in the White House? The soccer moms - who were smitten by Clinton's caddish charm. He was so sensitive to women's concerns. He felt their pain, as well as parts of the anatomy of any young woman within his reach. Democrats - who, after 12 years in the executive wilderness, hungered for positions and patronage and were eager to undo Reagan's legacy. They knew that Clinton was the dictionary of sleaze but maintained the mafia code of silence for the sake of the party. Now, their party is about to be stranded on Billigan's Island. The greedy interests - teachers, labor unions, trial lawyers, feminists and radical hustlers, who put political or pecuniary considerations above the general welfare. In 1996, the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed the nation's most prominent lawbreaker, its president hailing Mr. Eleven Impeachable Offenses as a "tough crime fighter." Members of my estate who worshipped at feet of clay - Anthony Lewis, Geraldo Rivera, Bryant Gumbel, and Eleanor Clift. The last, in her desperation to find mitigating circumstances for the Lewinsky liason, observed that at least Bill's babe wasn't jailbait. Co-President Hillary Rodham Clinton - who sold her soul for a pottage of power. She could have pulled the plug on the "Kiss-it" boy in '92. Hillary didn't know what Bill was up to the way Admiral Yamamoto didn't know what the Japanese Fleet was doing in the North Pacific in December 1941. Those who bought the line that if the president acts like a rutting pig in his private pen, it's none of our business - Unwittingly, they presided over the divorce of government and ethics. Too many Americans have spent the past six years in denial, with their eyes fixed on the Dow and their consciences, not to mention their critical facilities, on hold. Clinton isn't the only one who should hang his head in shame"

Fox News 9/14/98 "President Clinton and top Democrats tried to reassure the party faithful Monday that the fallout over the president's sex scandal will not torpedo Democratic chances in the Nov. 3 mid-term elections. Amid fears the Monica Lewinsky affair will allow Republicans to add to their majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate, Clinton argued "the adversity of the moment'' was not the real danger facing Democrats in November. Instead, the real danger facing the party is that supporters may think the economy is going so well now that "things are peachy-keen'' and they do not need to go vote, he said. "Remember, our problem is complacence,'' Clinton said. ''Our problem is people thinking things are good now.'' ."

Washington Post 9/15/98 David Broder Terry Neal "Within a half-hour of Congress's release of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report last week, reporters were calling to ask Jay Nixon if he still planned to attend a big Democratic fund-raiser featuring President Clinton next month in St. Louis. Nixon, the Democrat challenging Sen. Christopher S. Bond, R-Mo., said he wasn't sure. But this week, Nixon decided he would attend. And he found what he hopes is a way to benefit from the situation. On Wednesday, his campaign will begin running television commercials featuring Nixon's wife, Georganne, talking about his Eagle Scout past and shots of their family at church -- drawing a sharp contrast with Clinton..But walking that tightrope will not be easy. ``The problem for Democrats,'' said Republican consultant Ralph Reed, ``is how to express an appropriate degree of disapproval for the president's misbehavior without totally deflating the enthusiasm of Democrats and losing the turnout they need.''. Former representative Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., came down on the other side. She said she was warning her old colleagues ``they can't be out there trying to be an extension of the legal team. That is very dangerous for the party. They have to deal with the fact that this is not the role model we want for the Democratic Party.''

Chicago Tribune 9/15/98 Naftali Bendavid "A congressional censure of President Clinton would be, in a sense, completely meaningless and yet deeply significant, historians and legal experts said Monday. Censure, an idea that has gained momentum in recent days, would be meaningless in that Congress could not slap Clinton with any tangible penalty, such as a fine, reduction in power, or removal of privileges. But it would matter in other ways, by damaging Clinton's public standing and his historical legacy -- significant punishments in themselves. Such an action by both houses of Congress would be unprecedented. The Senate censured President Andrew Jackson in 1834, and the House rebuked President James Buchanan in 1860. But no president has ever faced chastisement by both houses of Congress at the same time. In fact, censure has been almost exclusively a way for the House or Senate to punish their own members.But more illuminating than Congress' punishment of its own members are the few times it has chosen to censure or rebuke Executive Branch officials. These are completely non-binding actions with no basis in the Constitution, but they do send a powerful message, experts say..

Freeper report Oprah Winfrey Show 9/14/98 "... out of Oprah's mouth.."this isn't just about sex.. it goes far far deeper than that." .The audience keeps bringing up about the LYING!!!."

Freeper report MSNBC 9/14/98 "Tonight Congressman John Kasich of Ohio called for the resignation of Clinton. His words were strong and showed the courage and morals we expect from a leader.."

CNN John King 9/14/98 "Backup documentation accompanying Independent Counsel Ken Starr's report provides strong enough evidence for the House Judiciary Committee to proceed to a full- fledged impeachment inquiry, several sources familiar with the material have told CNN... The sources also told CNN that there is a strong case made that the president committed perjury. The information in the backup materials is also likely to call into question the president's denial that his relationship with Lewinsky fell under the definition of sexual relations he was given during his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, the Democratic sources said.."

Electronic Telegraph 9/14/98 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard "A FORMER girlfriend of President Clinton, Marsha Scott, has emerged as a central figure in the obstruction of justice and witness-tampering case against the President. Ms Scott, deputy director of personnel and part of the tight-knit "Arkansas Group" at the White House, was given the task of handling Monica Lewinsky in the summer of 1997, when the volatile young woman was making veiled threats to reveal her "extra-curricular" activities in the Oval Office.But though outwardly "hip", she is a key player in the power politics of the Clinton administration. In 1994 she was put in charge of the contentious "Big Brother" database at the White House. She was the principal conduit between President Clinton and the former associate attorney-general, Webster Hubbell, after he was jailed for fraud. There is currently an investigation under way by the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, to determine whether Mr Hubbell was paid several hundred thousand dollars "'hush money" to secure his silence in the Whitewater scandal. Ms Scott was one of the last officials to spend time with Vincent Foster before he was found dead in a Virginia park, with a gun in his hand, on July 20, 1993. According to FBI documents she was closeted with Mr Foster for up to two hours on the afternoon before his death. She claims that she cannot remember what they talked about. The same day, she reported in person to President, according to hand-written notes of her FBI interview. This detail was later censored out of the official documents, a significant omission. The FBI was apparently trying to shield Mr Clinton from possible entanglement in the events leading up to Mr Foster's death. Long-time observers of the Clinton White House say that Ms Scott serves as the President's trouble-shooter, with the special assignment of making sure that the inner circle stays united."

Washington Post 9/15/98 Robert Suro "Whether they stood watch outside the Oval Office or merely tended the White House gates, Secret Service officers and agents were witnesses to the amorous drama portrayed in independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's impeachment report, offering corroboration of Monica S. Lewinsky's private meetings with President Clinton. Six current or former members of the Secret Service testified that Clinton spent time alone with Lewinsky in or around the Oval Office, and Starr cites them to contradict the sworn testimony of the man they are sworn to protect. More than 20 others appear in various points of the report mainly to back up Lewinsky's account of when and where she visited Clinton. Clinton's personal attorney, David E. Kendall, took on the Secret Service Sunday during an appearance on ABC's ``This Week,'' alleging that one of the most dramatic incidents in the Starr report involving the Secret Service ``first of all, is not something that I think, in fact, happened.'' The disputed incident occurred Dec. 6, 1997, the day after attorneys for Paula Jones advised Clinton's lawyer that they intended to call Lewinsky as a witness in their lawsuit. . After she left, Clinton met with Capt. Jeffrey Purdie, the watch commander for the uniformed officers on duty, and told him, ``I hope you use your discretion,'' an instruction Purdie relayed to his subordinates as ``whatever just happened, didn't happen,'' according to testimony from Purdie and other Secret Service officers. Top officials at the Secret Service began reviewing the Starr report's account of the episode over the weekend and have determined that it occurred, according to a senior administration official. ``They just let it die because basically they had made a big mistake letting Lewinsky know what the president was doing,'' the official said. ``That would have been a mistake under any circumstance. So they were covering for themselves, not for Clinton.'' In his TV appearance Sunday, Kendall said of the episode, ``The president testified in his grand jury testimony that that did not happen.'' However, the Starr report cites the testimony of nine members of the Secret Service, including two senior officers, to recount the incident."

9/14/98 NYT Felicity Barringer "Scattershot anger and disgust at President Clinton, combined with pervasive anxiety about the potential use and misuse of constitutional impeachment powers, left many editorial pages groping to find analytic prescriptions to ease the dilemmas facing Congress and the President. At least 25 newspapers have called for the the President's resignation, including 7 that circulate 250,000 or more papers on Sundays: The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Seattle Times, The Des Moines Sunday Register, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Jose Mercury-News, The Tampa Tribune and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Albuquerque Journal on Sunday called Clinton "morally unfit to continue in office," while The Seattle Times said, "Without moral authority, the President cannot lead." ."

NYT 9/15/98 David Firestone "She was presented to the world by President Clinton as the family "role model" of the White House, the upright, churchgoing secretary whose fear-stricken appearance before a grand jury in January generated several days of needed sympathy for an Administration under siege. But Betty Currie, who has presided at the gate of the Oval Office for the last five years, played a far less savory role for the President beginning in 1995, according to the report released on Friday by Kenneth W. Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel. After Clinton and Monica S. Lewinsky began their affair, Ms. Currie facilitated their clandestine meetings and often helped Ms. Lewinsky bypass the system designed to note all Presidential visitors, the report says."

Scripps-Howard/St Petersburg Times 9/15/98 Mary Jacoby "Vernon Jordan has been President Clinton's friend, adviser, golfing partner and political fixer. Now, the trusted insider also may be the anchor around his neck. Of all the damaging pages in independent counsel Kenneth Starr's report, Democratic legal advisers say the section detailing Jordan's efforts to aid Monica Lewinsky in the weeks before the presidential sex scandal broke may prove most troublesome to Clinton. That's because Jordan's description of what he told Clinton about his efforts to help the former intern find a job and file an affidavit denying a sexual relationship in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case directly contradicts much of Clinton's sworn testimony. And Jordan, a former civil rights leader turned Washington power broker and lawyer, is perhaps as close to Clinton as anyone."

9/15/98 Investor's Business Daily Matthew Robinson "For the White House and its allies in the media, the Monica Lewinsky scandal is about one thing: sex. But to four of America's former attorneys general who recently spoke with IBD, the controversy swirling around President Clinton and his aides is about something far deeper: the rule of law. The bipartisan group of four former attorneys general, including top cops from the Carter, Reagan and Bush eras, have worked together twice before on legal questions related to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's probe of Clinton. The first time, in the spring, they wrote a letter defending the right of Starr to do his job. The second time, they joined forces to file a friend-of-the-court brief in June opposing the White House's claim of a ''protective function privilege'' for Secret Service agents. What is their concern? Simply put: the rule of law."

Washington Post 9/15/98 David Broder "..But several members of the House have been censured to no political effect. And no one knows the real impact of a congressional censure on the chief executive: It could dangerously demean him in the eyes of the world, or it could leave him feeling free to lie again when convenient. The constitutional remedy for serious abuse of office is the impeachment process. Many wise and experienced leaders of both parties I talked to say they cannot envisage Clinton being removed from office by this route for the wrongdoing alleged by Starr. .But I was struck by what I heard from Joe Califano, an ardent Democrat and former Cabinet officer. "If impeachment goes forward, that is all that will happen in the next Congress," Califano said. "I think Clinton is finished as a serious president, whether he stays in office or not. He's lost his credibility, his moral authority." Califano said he had been thinking back to the time, 30 years ago, when Lyndon Johnson told him and Harry McPherson, both presidential aides, that he had decided not to seek reelection, because, as Califano said, "he could no longer lead on either of the things that were important -- Vietnam or civil rights." Any successor -- even Richard Nixon or Robert Kennedy -- would "have a honeymoon with Congress" and be able to do things he himself no longer could, Johnson said. Johnson did not resign, because an election was only eight months away. Clinton still has 28 months to serve. "I don't know if Clinton even thinks that way," Califano said. Let us pray that he does. "

AP John Solomon 9/15/98 "President Clinton's denial in January of a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky cost more than the personal embarrassment of Kenneth Starr's report. Taxpayers will foot a bill of at least $4.4 million, The Associated Press has learned...The figure - which doesn't include the costs the administration bore fighting legal battles that delayed Starr, the future costs of witness reimbursements or the other aspects of Starr's investigation - may become a political weapon against the president. Some already are discussing the possibility that Congress could demand the president pay restitution to cover some of the costs of the investigation as one form of punishment that might also include a vote of censure."

World Net Daily 9/14/98 Joseph Farah ".We've lost our moorings -- just as surely as Bill Clinton has. America is morally, politically, intellectually, spiritually adrift. There are no anchors aboard. No compasses. The USS America is at the mercy of the winds and currents, and most on board don't care. As long as the crew is serving them fine food and entertaining them, the passengers don't give a second thought to their fate or their ultimate destination. In a way, Americans are getting just what they deserve. Their choice of leaders reflects their own inadequacies and shortcomings -- their own cowardice. No wonder they look at Bill Clinton without judgment. To hold him accountable would mean holding themselves to a standard of accountability. They like looking up to see a leader who is every bit as dysfunctional, soulless and lost as themselves. It's comforting, in a perverse way. And psychic and material comfort is the only standard by which Americans today measure their lives, their liberty and their pursuit of happiness. It's not an easy observation or admission to make, my fellow Americans. But somebody has to say it."

WorldNet daily 9/15/98 WorldNet Daily David Bresnahan "Indictments of a number of people close to President Clinton are expected soon, according to sources close to the investigation of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Clinton will be forced to testify in a number of the trials, and his testimony will play a part in the indictments that will eventually come against him and against Hillary Clinton after they are out of the White House, the sources say. Starr hinted at his intentions in his recent report to Congress, and sources close to the investigation have confirmed that the Starr investigation has a bombshell ready to drop. Additional evidence is also being prepared for Congress, according to several sources familiar with Starr's secretive strategy..Clinton is not the only one in Washington who should be worried about what Starr's plans are. "The investigation is not over, and the indictments are about to come out," said an attorney familiar with Starr's legal staff and their plans. "They've been holding back on indictments of others until they got the report to Congress taken care of. Jordan, Ickes, Carville and the gang know they will soon be indicted. Everyone in the White House is in desperation mode. They are on code red." Starr also reportedly has plenty of evidence about other women besides Monica Lewinsky. "I think he (Starr) was trying to spare the country the shock of the extent of the problem. It's not really needed for impeachment, so he left it out," claimed the source who said the full details of the many women in Clinton's life will likely be revealed in future indictments.The Starr grand jury in Virginia has been keeping very tight security on the identity of witnesses. Vans ."

Washington Times Jennifer Harper 9/15/98 "In just over two weeks, the number of newspapers around the country calling for President Clinton to resign from office has almost tripled. On Aug. 28, there were 15 papers on the resignation roster. As of yesterday, the number had risen to 40 -- and now includes USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. The editorial in USA Today, which has a nationwide circulation of over 1.7 million, was lengthy and outspoken. "The time for the president to leave is not after months of continued national embarrassment, but now," it states. "Bill Clinton should resign ... because he has resolutely failed -- and continues to fail -- the most fundamental test of any president: to put his nation's interests first."."

New York Post 9/15/98 Dick Morris "YOU can be sure Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't much like Kenneth Starr's report to Congress. But the two sentences that she must have minded the most had nothing to do with sex, her husband or Monica Lewinsky. For her, the most ominous sentences in Starr's report to Congress are: Evidence is being gathered on ... the Rose Law Firm's representation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association ... All phases of the investigation are now nearing completion. Now, Hillary is waiting for the other shoe to drop. This reference in the Starr report is threateningly specific.. If Starr finds Hillary did something wrong, there would appear to be no legal obstacle to stop him from indicting her. For Hillary, Monica is a sideshow. Castle Grande is the main event.."

NEW YORK POST 9/15/98 DEBORAH ORIN "Most Americans say they're ashamed to have Bill Clinton as their president - and his support could be the kiss of death for Democratic candidates, a new national poll shows. The survey of likely voters found they're 3-to-1 against candidates who voice strong support for Clinton or have the embattled president in to campaign for them.."

Freeper report on Fox News David Shuster 9/15/98 "FOX News David Shuster is reporting that the Whitehouse is STILL pursuing Executive Priviledge claims for Bruce Lindsey, Cheryl Mills and Lanny Brewer and has made that appeal to the Supreme Court. Shuster reported that the OIC has further questions relating to the Monica Lewinsky story that these three individuals have refused to answer. Shuster went on to say that FOX was the ONLY news service reporting this continuing Executive Priviledge claim."

AP Terence Hunt "President Clinton announced today he is strengthening his White House damage-control team with attorneys and lobbyists with extensive experience on Capitol Hill to deal with the threat of impeachment hearings from the Monica Lewinsky affair. Greg Craig, a senior State Department official who once worked for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, is joining the White House as an assistant to the president and special counsel to coordinate the response to Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's report to Congress on the Lewinsky matter.."

ABC Heather Maher ABC".. As the House grapples with its response to the 445-page report from Independent Prosecutor Kenneth Star, and the Judiciary Committee plows through dozens of boxes containing material too sensitive for immediate public release, the video tape of President Clinton's grand jury testimony has suddenly become the most wanted piece of evidence. House Judiciary Committee members were holding intense discussions in private today over whether to release what could be yet another public embarrassment for the president. Several Republican members of the Judiciary Committee told reporters today that they see no reason why the tape should not be released, an opinion House Democrats have said privately they do not share. If it is released, say sources familiar with the president's testimony, the public could get a glimpse of Clinton's moods during intense questioning-angry at times, at others, argumentative, and at one point, laughing-in stark contrast to the contrite figure he has sought to portray in recent days.."

Baltimore Sun David Folkenflik 9/15/98 "After reading Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report, two more Maryland Republican lawmakers Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett of Western Maryland and Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. of Baltimore County -- called yesterday for President Clinton's resignation.."

Reuters 9/15/98 ".At the same time, Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee, warned Clinton supporters not to dig into the private lives of members of Congress to find embarrassing and unsavory details. - - He warned that ``efforts to intimidate members of Congress or interfere with the discharge of their official duties in relation to the impeachment matter could constitute violation of federal criminal law.'' ."

ABC News 9/13/98 via Rush Freeper report "In a hilarious performance by Clintonista barrister David Kendall, he clumsily bobs and weaves questions from Sam and Cokie...then George Will socks him in the gut with the last word. ("GEORGE WILL: I gather your answer to Sam is, he could remember being alone with Ms Lewinsky when she was delivering pizza, but not when she was delivering oral sex?) ."

MSNBC 9/15/98 Mike Brunker ".Starr's report charges that the president perjured himself in his deposition in the Paula Jones' lawsuit and in his grand jury testimony on Aug. 17. That testimony could soon could be made public in the House's impeachment review, but Democrats are likely to oppose release of a videotaped version of Clinton's appearance before the grand jury..Clinton was questioned at the White House, and his testimony was taped as it was fed live to the grand jury at the federal court house. One Democratic lawmaker, speaking on condition of anonymity to AP, said Monday his party was likely to oppose release of the video because there are no tapes of other witnesses. Sources familiar with the testimony, who would not be quoted by name, told AP the tape would show instances where Clinton flashed anger or argued with prosecutors for pressing him on questions of a sexual nature."

Washington Post 9/16/98 George Will "."It should not be surprising that there are graphic details. Nobody should be surprised to find gambling in a casino." -- David Kendall So, at this White House, a cigar in an intern and oral-anal contact are as unsurprising as gambling in a casino. That is something to ponder while awaiting the next presidential sermon on the V-chip.."

Chicago Tribune 9/15/98 John Kass ". But, if you want to learn something about Clinton as a leader, I refer you to the part about the pizza date with Monica Lewinsky at the White House. That was also the night that Clinton was on the phone with a powerful Alabama Republican congressman, H.L. "Sonny" Callahan. What we didn't know is what they were talking about. Now it's emerging that they were discussing sending American troops into harm's way in Bosnia--putting our sons and daughters into a dangerous place that is full of death. The president needed a vote from Callahan--chairman of an appropriations subcommittee that controls billions of dollars in foreign aid--for the peacekeeping mission, which would augment an international accord being developed in Dayton, Ohio. But while he was on the phone, Clinton was simultaneously occupied. White House intern Monica Lewinsky was performing oral sex in the Oval Office. Imagine someone receiving those favors while they're talking to you on the phone. Now imagine that the subject you're talking about is literally about life and death.."

Washington Post 9/16/98 Peter Baker Juliet Eilperin "Undaunted by White House objections, the House Judiciary Committee yesterday prepared to release the videotape of President Clinton's Aug. 17 grand jury testimony as Republican leaders rebuffed suggestions that Congress forgo an impeachment inquiry in favor of a resolution censuring the president. Making public the tape of the four-hour interrogation about Clinton's affair with Monica S. Lewinsky could be another damaging political blow for the president following last week's release of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's explicit 453-page report about Clinton's activities. Aides fear the sight of Clinton being grilled - particularly in moments where he appears angry, defensive or evasive - could be a far more powerful political image than even the salacious Starr report narrative of his sexual encounters with the onetime White House intern. The tape, they assume, will be shown repeatedly on television networks and possibly used by some Republican candidates in the fall congressional elections.."

L.A. Times 9/16/98 Judy Pasternak "Charged with protecting the United States' innermost sanctum and the person of the president, the ranks of the Secret Service are filled with trained observers. No wonder, then, that uniformed officers and plainclothes agents at the White House noticed the dark-haired young woman who carried a manila folder when she visited President Clinton, most often on weekends and holidays. They also figured out that Clinton's secretary sometimes came to work just to let the woman in and out. And they remarked upon the fact that within minutes of Monica Lewinsky's arrival at the executive mansion, Clinton invariably headed for the Oval Office and, within minutes of her departure, returned to his living quarters. ``Like clockwork,'' Secret Service Officer Brent Chinery testified to the grand jury investigating Clinton's relationship with the former White House intern.."

CST Ether Zone OnLine 9/15/98 "Reliable sources have told the Zone that indictments are eminent. Bruce Lindsey is one of the names being touted by our sources. Alert Zone readers will recall our August 6th report, naming Bruce Lindsey as the co-author of the infamous "talking points" memo. Curiously, Starr's referral to Congress is all but empty on Lindsey and the talking points memo. Sources have told the Zone that Starr's bombshell finale is waiting in the wings. In addition to other indictments, the final report on Whitewater to Filegate is still in the making.....Developing story"

NY Daily News Timothy Burger 9/16/98 "President Clinton exploded in anger during his Aug. 17 grand jury testimony when asked about using a cigar as a sex prop - and it's all on a video that could become public this week, sources said yesterday.Clinton "looks weaselly" on the portion of tape - denying that he lied in January when he testified he did not have sexual relations with ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky, a knowledgeable source said. The President also is "very combative" in parts of the video, a second source said. According to some network reports, Clinton stormed out of the room at one point."

Freeper Report 9/15/98 National Journal Hotline "More resignation calls: Former 18-term Rep. Neal Smith (D-IA), Clinton alma mater Georgetown U. Hoya newspaper.."

Washington Times 9/16/98 Bill Sammon Mary Akers "The videotape of President Clinton's combative testimony before the Monica Lewinsky grand jury is expected to be released by the House as early as tomorrow, although his newly strengthened legal defense team is fighting to keep it secret.."

Washington Times 9/16/98 Editorial "If the Democrats have their way, President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony will not be made public. "There is a consensus [among Democrats] that tape should not be disseminated." said Jim Jordan, spokesman for the minority on the House Judiciary Committee. "This is a political stunt, it's political theater." Over the next few days the Democrats on the committee will try to keep the majority from releasing the tape. There is no way to understand or explain that effort other than as an attempt to obstruct the process of considering Mr. Clinton's fate. That Democrats on the Judiciary Committee would try to cover for the president at this early stage in the game does not bode well for bipartisan comity..The president's supporters (those few who are left) have been attacking the Starr report by suggesting it does not accurately reflect the full body of testimony and evidence. Mr. Kendall and White House counsel Charles Ruff have both said that Mr. Starr's opus cannot be trusted until it is tested against the boxes of raw information still under lock and key. And yet then the Democrats want to keep that very information under wraps. In one rare instance, the president's lawyers have it right: For the public to judge the Starr