Monica Lewinsky's affidavit uses the term "President behaving inappropriately" so does the talking points.

New Yorker journalist Mayer may have quoted the wrong copy of Tripp's Form 398. Linda Tripp filled out one in 1987 for the Pentagon and another in 1991 for the Bush White House. The New Yorker article used language that doesn't appear in Tripp's Pentagon record and Bernath's diary notes that the "wording of questions and warnings were different on the version of the form she signed."

Kirby Behre, Linda Tripp's ex-lawyer, was recommended to her by White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum. Three partners at Behre's law firm - Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker - have close ties to the White House. The law firm website does not allow access to the bio of Kirby Behre, who was was recently appointed to a plum position in Washington DC overseeing the appointment of District Court of Appeals justices. An unusual appointment for a non-partner in the firm. Behre tried to get Tripp to destroy the Lewinsky tapes, and when she wouldn't, stated the tapes would get her thrown in jail.

White House and others characterizations of Lewinsky being overwhelmed by prosecutors in a hotel v. the OIC letter to Brill "During the five hours while awaiting her mother's arrival, Ms. Lewinsky drank juice and coffee, ate dinner at a restaurant, strolled around the Pentagon City mall, and watched television.........As they left the Ritz Carlton, both Ms. Lewinsky and Ms. Lewis thanked the FBI agents and attorneys for their courtesy."

Kenneth W. Starr said his office never asked Monica Lewinsky to secretly tape-record conversations with President Clinton or his friend Vernon E. Jordan Jr. -- an assertion contradicted by sources close to Miss Lewinsky.

Monica Lewinsky's first lawyer, Francis Carter said "I had no idea of any connection between Vernon and her and any job search . She never mentioned it and neither did Vernon." Carter said Lewinsky did not ask him to hold off filing the affidavit while she waited to secure a job, as it has been reported based on secretly tape-recorded conversations with Linda Tripp. Lewinsky signed the affidavit January 7 1998 but it was not sent until nine days later. Before the date it was sent, Lewinsky received a job offer from a company Jordan referred her to. Carter said: "The timing of the affidavit and the job was never on my radar screen at all. That was an after-the-fact revelation to me." Jordan showed an interest in keeping in touch, calling much more frequently after sending Lewinsky over to see Carter.

Regarding Clinton and Lewinsky, Mike McCurry on 2/17/1998: "Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already."

According a Drudge Exclusive, logs reveal that Monica Lewinsky went into the White House when Hillary Clinton was gone.

The US News & World Report (6/29/98) published a misleading story based on 2 of the 20 hours of taped conversations of Lewinsky - emphasizing the pre-subpoena timing of Lewinsky's job search and not mentioning the extraordinary job search assistance provided after the subpoena in the Jones v Clinton case. The article also omitted to mention that James Fallows, chief editor for U.S. News & World Report, was a recent Clinton appointee. He was appointed to the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. Clinton appointed Yah Lin 'Charlie' Trie" to the same Commission.

According to Drudge on Fox News, Monica Lewinsky's resume says she "trained interns" and has a top secret clearance.

7/6/98 Landmark Legal Foundation Mark Levin "So far, Mr. Clinton has lost every constitutional argument he has taken to the courts. The United States Supreme Court rejected Mr. Clinton's assertion of civil immunity in the Paula Jones sexual assault lawsuit. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Hillary Clinton's attorney-client privilege claims, forcing her to give Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr notes taken by government lawyers who were improperly representing her in the Whitewater investigation. The Supreme Court rejected the Clintons' request to even hear the case on appeal. A federal district judge ruled against Mr. Clinton's expansive claims of executive privilege and attorney-client privilege, which were asserted by Mr. Clinton to prevent his top aides from testifying before a federal grand jury. Mr. Clinton has now appealed those rulings. And the same judge refused to recognize the Clinton administration's newly fabricated privilege, the so-called Secret Service Protective Function Privilege. This, too, has been appealed by Mr. Clinton."

7/8/98 NY Times Stephan Labaton "As Linda Tripp returned to the federal grand jury investigating the Lewinsky matter, Maryland officials said Tuesday that they had begun a separate criminal inquiry into whether Mrs. Tripp violated a state law that makes it a crime for one person to record a telephone conversation without the consent of the other.But any prosecution against Mrs. Tripp could be problematic because she has received two grants of immunity, one from the Whitewater independent counsel's office and the other from a federal judge in a sealed order, lawyers and other people involved in the Lewinsky matter said Tuesday. .."

Bill Press said as Crossfire was going off that "we should let the girls mud wrestle to settle this" referring to Linda Tripp and Monica.

Newsweek 7/20/98 ".NEWSWEEK has learned that none of the Secret Service employees interviewed by Justice claims to have seen Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation. Still their testimony could be embarrassing. At least two officers said they believe they saw the president and the intern alone together."

7/12/98 Washington Times ".In a telephone interview yesterday, Mrs. Goldberg quoted Miss Lewinsky as telling Mrs. Tripp on tape: "[President Clinton] has told me he's going to lie. I'm going to lie. Why can't you lie?" "I heard that [tape] late last fall, and I've kept quiet about this bombshell until now. But I've decided I'm tired of Linda's getting beaten on the head," Mrs. Goldberg said.."

7/12/98 UPI "Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, says if President Clinton were subpoenaed to testify in the Monica Lewinsky investigation and refused, that may constitute an impeachable offense. Appearing on NBC's ``Meet the Press'' today, Hatch said: ``If (Ken Starr) can't get an agreement with Monica Lewinsky's attorneys, he ought to indict her, list the president as an unindicted co-conspirator if that's what it comes down to and then subpoena the president. And if he doesn't come in and at least -- as presidents are presumed to do -- tell the truth about what happened, then I think that's a very serious problem.'' But the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee added that while some people believe such a refusal would clearly be an impeachable offense, ``I personally believe we have to be very, very tight on what we use for grounds for impeachment.''."

7/8/98 Quinn in the Morning Larry Klayman ". we now have found out that Jane Mayer, when she sought to justify how she got the information about Linda Tripp's prior record, made up quotations. Why did Jane Mayer, then, create a quotation, that Linda Tripp's father had told the stepmother, [Jane Lowe Davis (?)], who we deposed, that in fact it wasn't a prank, that she should have been arrested. That Linda Tripp was a liar. When I asked [Jane Lowe Davis (?)] whether she had ever said those things, she couldn't remember ever having told Mayer that, and said 'probably not, because in fact the father never told me those things.' She couldn't remember that."

7/13/98 John Kass Chicago Tribune "Sooner or later, President Bill Clinton will have to answer questions about former intern Monica Lewinsky, possible presidential perjury and obstruction of justice in the White House.. What's significant is that this belief is held by Minority Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, the institutional voice of the Democratic House. ..Gephardt is the first of the top centrist Democrats to veer from the White House line."

7/13/98 Washington Times Joyce Howard Price "."I believe as the investigation continues and when a report is filed, or if an indictment is handed up ... evidence will actually be revealed," lawyer Joe Murtha said yesterday on "Fox News Sunday."."

CBS News 7/13/98 Scott Pelly "CBS News has reviewed sealed court documents that show Ken Starr's Secret service dragnet is much broader than previously known, reports CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Scott Pelley. Starr is asking where the president slept on dozens of specific dates. For the first time, the Special Prosecutor is also seeking evidence from the agents who are closest to Mr. Clinton. The secret service has been hit with a subpoena that demands "all records of any nature whatsoever. ..indicating the location and activity of President Clinton for the period July 1, 1995 through April 15, 1996.." Those dates match Monica Lewinsky's employment at the White House. But Starr also wants records for 49 specific dates after her White House employment ended. The subpoena asks only for records covering the overnight hours -- from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Many of the dates appear to have been chosen because they match dates Lewinsky is known to have visited the white house. Other dates cover nights that the president was traveling."

7/14/98 Rob Fournier AP ".Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr has subpoenaed the head of President Clinton's security detail to testify in the Monica Lewinsky investigation.Two government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that Special Agent Larry Cockell was subpoenaed and that others in the elite security team could soon follow."

7/15/98 CNN Crossfire Freeper Yikes reports "Being very careful in his choice of words, Lanny Davis tonight said on Crossfire that he hoped that Janet Reno and her DOJ were giving serious thought tonight to "suspending" Ken Starr's investigation. ."

CAS Mailing List 7/15/98 Carl of Oyster Bay "The press breathlessly reports Ken Starr's subpoena of Clinton body-man, Secret Service agent Larry Cockell. Mike McCurry fumes that the invasion of presidential privacy is unprecedented. Meanwhile, all concerned seem to have forgotten that several agents from the presidential security detail have already let the cat out of the bag, giving accounts of furtive extramarital Clinton sex and other private moments to author Ron Kessler, who quoted the agents at length for his 1995 New York Times bestseller, "Inside the White House"."

8/16/98 Capitol Hill Blue "Secret Service agents often overheard President Bill Clinton discuss his fondness for oral sex and one agent reports the President said Monica Lewinsky could "suck a tennis ball through a garden hose." That's the word going around the Secret Service offices on Pennsylvania Avenue, right next door to the White House.In fact, Clinton's crudeness often made the agents uncomfortable, especially when he would make the comments in earshot of a female agent.."

7/16/98 AP " The Clinton administration today asked Chief Justice William Rehnquist to intervene after the U.S. Court of Appeals refused to stop Secret Service officers from testifying in the Monica Lewinsky investigation. The Justice Department filed the request at the Supreme Court less than an hour after the appeals court refused to reconsider an earlier decision ordering the Secret Service personnel, including President Clinton's chief bodyguard, to testify. The appeals court had sent a strong message to the Justice Department by saying none of its nine judges available on the case wanted to intervene and that it was unlikely to win before the nation's nine justices. The department's ``likelihood of success before the Supreme Court is insufficient to warrant further delay in the grand jury's investigation,'' the appeals court said."

7/16/98 Silicon Valley Logic ".The three appeals judges, writing for the full eleven-member appeals panel, called the Justice Department's actions in appealing the case frenetically "absurd". The ruling overrode a stay the same three judge panel ordered only three hours earlier to ensure proper opportunity for full appeals court review. In the interim, networks hailed the stay as a victory for the Justice Department, Secret Service and Clinton, stating that the ruling from the full eleven member DC appeals panel might take "days, even weeks". The lightning-quick three hour decision by the appeals court judges makes it clear that justices from both political parties believe the Justice Department arguments have little legal merit. Judge Silverman, one of the eleven appeals judges, issued a detailed opinion in which he wrote that thte administration and its officers had "declared war on Kenneth Starr, and therefore, on the American system of government".

The Daily Republican 7/20/98 Howard Hobbs "The Clinton administration has been shocked and disappointed with appellate and Supreme Court rulings this past week. Word of the latest judicial setback arrived on Friday after chief justice William Hubbs Rehnquist refused a Clinton administration urgent request that Secret Service agents be exempted from testifying before special prosecutor Kenneth Starr's federal grand jury investigating possible perjury, witness tampering, and perjury by president Clinton.When news reached the Clinton White House on Friday, it hit home with a vengeance. Clinton's legal team is still reeling from the Supreme Court's opinion last year in striking down a dubious expansion of presidential powers in a law signed by Clinton adding unconstitutional presidential line-item veto authority. .Friday's decision by justice Rehnquist set the stage for grand jury testimony by White House aide, Bruce Lindsey. In the Lindsey ruling, the Appellate judge said Starr's needs for information on the possible commission of criminal activity by Clinton, were so great the president could not avail himself of an executive privilege claim. Making matters worse, immediately after justice Rehnquist ruling upholding the D.C. Appellate Court, The White House filed another appeal on grounds of attorney-client privilege they claimed is absolute and would possibly block any Lindsey testimony. The latest Clinton administration move might result in a delay of a month or more depending on whether or not there is another Supreme Court appeal involved. "

7/20/98 MSNBC "Three Secret Service officers are prepared to testify that they saw President Bill Clinton alone with Monica Lewinsky, sources told NBC News on Monday. The sources also said that a retired Secret Service officer (Robert Ferguson) who quit in May after a dispute with his superiors was called last week before the grand jury investigating allegations surrounding Lewinsky - a selection apparently aimed at heightening anxiety among fellow members of the protective corps."

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7/19/98 DRUDGE FOOTNOTE: The Secret Service employees who testified last week in Washington appeared in front of a different grand jury than Starr's regular courthouse panel. Why the rush? The only clue, according to FOX NEWS hotshot David Shuster, came in a footnote to a document prosecutors filed with the Supreme Court. The footnote hinted that Starr's office was in possession of "extraordinarily sensitive information." That information apparently was filed under seal, but the footnote alluding to whateveritis was all it took to throw case watchers into panting and ranting with curiosity all weekend...

WorldNetDaily 7/20/98 Geoff Metcalf "Why have s.o.b.'s (supporters of Bill) fought so very hard to preclude the Secret Service from testifying? A baker's dozen of judges from Chief U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson to Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist have all ruled that there is no such thing as "protective function privilege." Judge after judge has ruled they are "NOT convinced that compelling Secret Service personnel to testify before a grand jury regarding evidence of a crime would place presidents at peril." Yet notwithstanding the overwhelming consonance of the courts, Clinton's defenders of the indefensible continue to assert all those judges are wrong. Why continue the fight? In the wake of the long list of Clinton crimes (real and perceived) it is ironic that the character flaw of a garbage mouth could prove more fatal to a president than perjury, suborning perjury, obstruction of justice, abuse of power, campaign finance abuse, trading military secrets, and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Go figure.."

Washington Times 7/20/98 "No more Mr. Nice Guy. That was the reaction at the White House last week after federal Judge Laurence Silberman ridiculed pleas that Secret Service agents not be forced to testify in the Monica Lewinsky matter. CNBC's Geraldo Rivera, an unabashed critic of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, read a statement from an anonymous White House source Thursday night. Here's an excerpt: "The White House is stunned by the judge's tone, which does nothing but escalate the harsh rhetoric in this matter. We are mad, we are upset, and we are getting into battle mode. There is going to be a lot more hardball played. What little cooperation the White House has been giving to Ken Starr will dry up immediately. He will have to fight for every page of documents, and he will never, ever get the president of the United States to testify without a fight."

CBS Radio Scott Pelley 7/23/98 ".CBS News has learned one officer talks about a few tense moments when the President of the United States could not be located. At the grand jury, Secret Service officers are being asked about conversations they heard between the president and Lewinsky. Sources tell CBS News one of the officers tells a story about one weekend day when the president could not be accounted for. Sources say the officer retells events this way: On a weekend in early 1996, the president was believed to be in the Oval Office but did not answer a phone call there. An officer knocked on the door but there was no answer. Harold Ickes, the deputy chief of staff was summoned and walked into the Oval Office with a Secret Service agent. The oval was empty. The Secret Service control room was called and confirmed the president was in the area of Oval Office. In a matter of moments Ickes and the agent found Mr. Clinton and Lewinsky in a study that adjoins the president's office. The officer says he does not know what was happening in the study. The officer who tells this story has been before the grand jury in recent days.."

7/26/98 CNN AllPolitics "Top Republicans Sunday warned President Bill Clinton that refusing to honor independent counsel Ken Starr's grand jury subpoena in the Monica Lewinsky case could have serious political consequences -- including the possibility of impeachment.."

Capitol Hill Blue 7/26/98 Doug Thompson "Senior Democratic leaders have told President Bill Clinton they feel momentum is shifting towards independent counsel Kenneth Starr and he must comply with a grand jury subpoena or face serious problems on Capitol Hill, Congressional sources told Capitol Hill Blue Sunday. In private conversations with the President, senior Congressional Democrats as well as party leaders have told Clinton that he has no choice but to testify before the Whitewater grand jury about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.A growing belief among Democrats that Starr's evidence against the President is mounting. At the very least, more and more Democrats fear Starr can make a case for perjury. Some wonder if Starr has more evidence pointing to obstruction of justice than previously believed; Internal Democratic party polls show the number of Americans believe the President is hiding the truth about his relationship with Lewinsky continues to increase. While Clinton's popularity numbers remain high, Democrats fear that a failure to testify will be seen as tacit admission, which could erode the numbers; ."

Deroy Murdock 7/27/98 Washington Weekly "Neither sex, lies nor audio tape seem to hold the American public's attention anymore. According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll, 83 percent of adults are "tired of hearing about" the Monica Lewinsky probe. Perhaps their interest would be piqued if they focused on the cloak-and-dagger aspects of this scandal. From secret files to vandalism to a disappearing cat, this case looks more like a John Grisham thriller than the Playboy channel: (*) In what could be a scene from "The Pelican Brief," federal Judge Royce Lamberth on July 10 ordered the seizure of Pentagon employee Clifford Bernath's computer. ..(*) The White House apparently has its own dossiers on Lewinsky, Tripp and former White House employee Kathleen Willey..(*) Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr is investigating possible efforts to intimidate Kathleen Willey.(*) Former Village Voice media critic Doug Ireland wrote an article entitled "Of Closets and Clinton" in the March 30 issue of The Nation, a liberal opinion journal. He interviewed three Washington reporters who "confirmed to me that Sidney Blumenthal, the White House media counselor, had indeed been spreading" stories on "the same-sex orientation of a member of Starr's staff." Two say they discussed this with Blumenthal directly while a third reporter said he witnessed Blumenthal making such comments to another individual. Ireland added that, "Two of the members of the media I spoke to about the Starr allegations also said Blumenthal had described at least two other media figures to them as gay.".

7/20/98 Capitol Hill Blue Doug Thompson "More agents assigned to protect President Bill Clinton have asked to be reassigned than in any Presidential detail in recent memory, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. Although agents who seek reassignment are not required to give specific reasons, several agents openly expressed their dislike of the President and his behavior, sources close to the President's protective detail have confirmed. "It's never been necessary to like the man an agent is sworn to protect," says one ex-agent, who asked not to be identified. "But when you despise the man, it's harder to do your job." Since Clinton became President in 1993, at least four "heads of detail" have sought reassignment and the Secret Service detail as a whole "has turned over several times," a previously unheard of situation in a job that is usually sought-after as the pinnacle of the profession.."

NY Daily News 7/20/98 Timothy Berger Kenneth Starr has demanded White House entry records for President Clinton's private attorneys, renewing speculation that he wants to crack Clinton's lawyer-client privilege, a knowledgeable source told the News yesterday.By nailing down when Kendall and Bennett visited the White House, lawyers said Starr could be seeking documentation of meetings in which Clinton jeopardized his attorney-client privilege by including political advisers or others not covered by the privilege." Comment from Freeper Clarity " You guys may be onto something. If the Court of Appeals rules in Starr's favor on the pending appeal regarding Lindsey and attorney-client privilege, then it opens up all otherwise privileged discussions between the President and Bennet and/or Kendall where Lindsey was present, since his presence constituted a waiver of the privilege.."

CNN 7/21/98 "Independent Counsel Ken Starr and lawyers for President Bill Clinton, the White House and Monica Lewinsky all showed up Tuesday morning for a U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on alleged news leaks by Starr's office, sources tell CNN.Sources told CNN the morning's closed-door appeals hearing is on U.S. District Court Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's secret ruling in recent days sanctioning Starr for allegedly leaking secret grand jury information to the news media. According to lawyers familiar with the investigation, Johnson's order included steps preventing Starr from gathering certain evidence. The lawyers say Starr, who is attending the hearing this morning, appealed Johnson's decision to the Court of Appeals.."

ABCNews.Com Josh Gerstein 7/21/98 "Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr faced off with private attorneys before the U.S. Court of Appeals today as a three-judge panel considers whether to block an investigation into alleged leaks of grand jury information from Starr's office. President Clinton's attorneys David Kendall and Robert Bennett joined Monica Lewinsky's lawyers Plato Cacheris, Jacob Stein and Nathaniel Speights for the secret court session this morning. Neil Eggleston, a private attorney who represents the White House in independent counsel matters, also attended. Court records obtained by ABCNEWS show that, on June 26, Judge Norma Holloway Johnson issued an order about the alleged leaks. The ruling itself remains under seal, but sources say it calls for lawyers in Starr's office to turn over documents or even provide testimony on the leaks issue."

Drudge 7/21/98: "The first congressional hearing touching on the Monica Lewinsky mess may open shortly. Bill Richardson, globe-trotting diplomat and former congressman, appears to have a clear path for Senate approval as energy secretary, but not before questions about his job offer to Monica Lewinsky. "We are going to hit him with some pointed [Lewinsky] questions," one well-placed Hill Source said Tuesday. "It will be the first time Monica Lewinsky becomes an issue of official business on Capitol Hill.".According to case intelligence, Lewinsky's spontaneous conversations with Tripp may directly contradict Richardson's own public explanation of the situation!."

Washington Weekly Carl Limbacher " With the concept of "Secret Service Protective Privilege" crumbling just hours after Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist got his hands on it, one of the last lines of Clinton defense may have evaporated.The press better not bet the farm on Secret Service silence. Because three years ago, the only previous time agents who'd guarded Bill Clinton were queried about his behavior, they weren't shy about telling the truth. And amazingly, the accounts they gave Ron Kessler for his 1995 best selling book, "Inside the White House", sound exactly like the stories told by the Arkansas state troopers.That Secret Service agent decided to remain anonymous, since he was actually still working at the White House when he spoke to Kessler. But another retired agent, William Bell, had no qualms about speaking out on the record. And his account of Mrs. Clinton's temper tantrum goes a long way to explain why neither Clinton has ever been popular with the Secret Service.The agents' testimony could prove particularly explosive if it in any way corroborates an allegation reported last week by NBC's Tim Russert. Russert claimed that congressional sources had told him that some agents had "facilitated" liaisons for the president, much as the Arkansas state troopers had."

New York Times Don Van Natta 7/25/98 ".According to an adviser of Clinton who insisted on anonymity, Clinton expressed "strong" feelings in a recent conversation that he did not want to appear in person before Starr's grand jury, which is impaneled at the federal courthouse near Capitol Hill. The adviser said Clinton views Starr's inquiry as unfair, politically motivated and even illegitimate. When told about those remarks, a member of Clinton's legal team said the president is prone to fits of anger and frustration with the six-month-old Starr investigation."

New York Daily News Kathy Kiely and Thomas DeFrank ".A senior Clinton adviser said the pace of the talks picked up recently after Starr issued an ultimatum to the White House. "There have been ongoing discussions between the lawyers for weeks," the adviser said. "Finally, Starr called our bluff. Basically, he told us that he would subpoena the President of the United States if we didn't work something out.."

CNN Website ".In a related development, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt said in an interview on CNN's "Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields" program that Clinton should testify before the grand jury if subpoenaed."

US News 8/3/98 Julian Barnes ".White House officials concluded that their best public- relations strategy in the face of a possible subpoena would be to go public with the message that Clinton is trying to cooperate..Starr's prosecutors will accept nothing less than testimony in which they can directly question the president, either before the grand jury or in a deposition.Some aides.say privately they are worried that Starr's lawyers would attempt to catch Clinton in lies or contradictions.Last Tuesday, at a closed-door hearing in a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., presidential lawyers argued for the right to interrogate one of Starr's most aggressive prosecutors, Deputy Independent Counsel Jackie Bennett, about whether he had illegally leaked information to the press. Back in February, the New York Times broke a story about the testimony of presidential secretary Currie before the grand jury.If Kendall secceeds in his bid to depose the prosecutors - something legal experts say it is virtually unprecedented by lawyers for a target in a crminal case - Kendall could have the opportunity to learn what Currie has told Starr's prosecutors.U.S. News has learned that since Kendall's accusation, Bennett has walled himself off from information regarding Currie, in part so that he will have less to reveal if he is eventually deposed by the White House."

7/22/98 The Hill David Dorsen "Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr seems to have a strategy to indict or impeach President Clinton. The Starr plan I envisage entails obtaining from Clinton detailed testimony relating to Monica Lewinsky under oath in a criminal case. The public may not much care if Clinton lied in a civil deposition, Starr may reason, but it will care if he lies in a federal criminal case. Starr would push to have Clinton appear before a grand jury or as a trial witness in a criminal case. .."

The Progressive Review 7/98 "White House spin concerning sanctity of the Secret Service's "protective function" is seriously undermined by the fact that no administration in memory has been so indifferent to, and arrogant about, security concerns. For example: -- The maligned former White House FBI agent, Gary Aldrich, reports in his book, "Unlimited Access" numerous examples of security breaches either by intent or carelessness.Aldrich also reports that Hillary Clinton told the Secret Service agents in public to "stay the . back, stay the . away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me or else!" When her guards have argued with her, she had said, "Just ... do as I say, okay?" The improper collection of 1000 FBI files by the Clinton White House. The obstruction of police investigators following the death of Vincent Foster. Encouragement of lying to FBI agents by White House staff. .Finally, Aldrich (who has proved more perceptive about sex and security at the White House than most journalists) makes this comment: "Every time one of the members of the first family countermands efforts to guard him or her, an agent prepares a memo noting the event. The memo goes into a Secret Service file so that the agents, and the agency, are covered. It's called the CYA, or 'cover your .' file." ."

Drudge 7/28/98 ".Monica Lewinsky agreed to cooperate with investigators after she was hit with a 'mountain of evidence' -- notably: information that she left behind in the hard drive of her computer! Prosecutors also are in posession of love notes Lewinsky had written to Clinton, receipts a gifts, local phone records, even receipts for taxi trips to the White House, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The amount of evidence Starr's team collected left little room for Lewinsky to wiggle. Lewinsky's hard drive was filled with incriminating notes, e-mails, documents taken by Lewinsky. She used the hard drive like a diary, investigators quickly determined. "She was trapped," a source close to the action explains. "She was, in effect, busted... she left behind an evidence trail that was 10 miles long."

NY Times 7/28/98 Don Van Natta Jr. John Border ".Both Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky did deny under oath that they had a sexual relationship. But in discussions leading to the immunity deal, Ms. Lewinsky told prosecutors this week that she and the president had a sexual relationship that began in 1995 and that he made several efforts in December to persuade her to deny it in Paula Jones' sexual misconduct lawsuit against him. ..Under the immunity arrangement, Ms. Lewinsky is also prepared to testify that the president told her that he planned to deny a relationship in his deposition in the Jones suit, and if they both denied it, no one would know the truth, the lawyers said. She is also prepared to say that the president encouraged her to tell investigators that her many visits to the White House after she lost her job there in 1996 were to see Betty Currie, Clinton's private secretary, and not the president himself, the lawyers said. .Ms. Lewinsky's account of her conversations with Clinton in which he urged her to deny a sexual relationship echo a similar story told by Gennifer Flowers during the 1992 presidential campaign. She said that Clinton told her to deny a relationship if reporters asked and he would do the same and no witnesses could contradict them. After years of denials, Clinton admitted in his January deposition in the Jones case that he had had sex once with Ms. Flowers, in 1977."

CBS Website Pelley says the former White House intern has agreed to provide not just testimony, but also physical evidence of her alleged affair with President Clinton. CBS News has learned that Lewinsky has told prosecutors about two critical areas of investigation. First, the gifts: In the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, Lewinsky received a federal subpoena to produce each and every gift, including dresses, accessories and jewelry, given to her by Mr. Clinton. Instead of turning them over, Lewinsky brought the gifts to the White House and gave them to Mr. Clinton's secretary. A major focus of the investigation appears to be centered on who asked Lewinsky to return the gifts. Another key point is the so-called talking points. Lewinsky has admitted giving her friend, Linda Tripp, notes on how Tripp should testify in the Paula Jones suit. Lewinsky says these so-called talking points did not originate with anyone in the White House or the president's attorneys. Sources say the talking points are no longer a major focus of investigation."

Investor's Business Daily 7/29/98 Rep Bob Barr "Bill Clinton is the first sitting president to be subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury. Will he obey the law? He's failed to comply with its edicts before. And now Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr looks poised to become an unwitting accomplice in Clinton's campaign to erode the rule of law. Clinton wants to testify before a federal grand jury under terms and procedures not allowed the average citizen. According to reports, the president says he will ''honor'' the grand jury subpoena by staying home. One proposal would have the president talking to a video camera with his lawyers watching - and possibly coaching -his every move and word... If any other American were summoned before a grand jury, he would drop everything and make himself available. Otherwise, he'd face contempt charges. If this president is given special dispensation, a terrible and debilitating legal precedent will be set. And Americans will be justified in concluding their president is indeed above the law. The president should be given the same choice as every American: Testify with the same limitations and rights as any other citizen, or don't testify and face the consequences. To offer him any other choice is unjust and unfair. And, from a practical standpoint, it's probably counterproductive.

7/29/98 AP John Solomon "Amidst a maelstorm of legal maneuvering, President Clinton agreed Wednesday to break six months' silence and provide videotaped testimony regarding his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The session under oath with Whitewater prosecutors was set for Aug. 17 -- with the president's attorneys present.. Clinton's arrangement with Starr averted an unprecedented presidential appearance under subpoena before a federal grand jury where witnesses appear without counsel. Starr agreed to withdraw the subpoena to accommodate Clinton, and the president will delay his Martha's Vineyard vacation to testify. His testimony, under oath, will be made available to the grand jury."

7/29/98 AP John Solomon ".Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said independent counsel Kenneth Starr apparently is examining Clinton for three possible crimes -- perjury, causing someone else to commit perjury, and obstruction of justice. ``We're now in the closing throes of this,'' Hatch said. ``... It's in everybody's interest to get this over with.'' .``This is not a discussion about sexual propensities or sexual peccadilloes,'' said Hatch. ``Obstruction is a very serious thing.'' Noting that Starr's investigation already has cost $40 million, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the senior Democrat on Hatch's committee, was blunt: ``Wrap this sucker up!''"

7/29/98 AP John Solomon ".a potential conflict between Mrs. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky's account emerged. Sources familiar with Lewinsky's account say she is prepared to testify that she authored the so-called talking points she handed Mrs. Tripp on Jan. 14 that suggested possible testimony in the Jones lawsuit. Ms. Lewinsky has told prosecutors, the sources said, that no one from the White House assisted the effort and the document was mostly a compilation of things she had previously discussed with Mrs. Tripp. But Mrs. Tripp on Wednesday adamantly denied any role in the talking points. ``I have testified to the fact that I had nothing, let me repeat, nothing to do with preparing the so-called talking points. Allegations to the effect that I contributed to or assisted in any way with the creation of the talking points are as illogical and as they are patently false,'' Mrs. Tripp said.

DRUDGE 7/29/98 ".AS PART OF THE IMMUNITY DEAL WITH PROSECUTORS, MONICA LEWINSKY AGREED TO TURN OVER EVIDENCE SHE CLAIMED WOULD BACK UP HER ASSERTION OF A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESIDENT, ABC NEWS REPORTED LATE WEDNESDAY. LEWINSKY WILL HAND OVER A DRESS LEWINSKY SAID SHE SAVED AFTER A SEX ENCOUNTER WITH MR. CLINTON BECAUSE IT HAD SEMEN STAINS ON IT! THE REPORT ROCKED OFFICIAL WASHINGTON. SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISERS PLACED URGENT CALLS TO ABC NEWS IN THE MINUTES BEFORE THE STORY AIRED, IT HAS BEEN LEARNED. THE DRUDGE REPORT WAS FIRST TO REVEAL LEWINSKY'S CLAIM ON JANUARY 21 IN AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT: "INVESTIGATORS HAVE BECOME CONVINCED THAT THERE MAY BE A DNA TRAIL THAT COULD CONFIRM PRESIDENT CLINTON'S SEXUAL INVOLVEMENT WITH LEWINSKY... TRIPP HAS SHARED WITH INVESTIGATORS A CONVERSATION WHERE LEWINSKY ALLEGEDLY CONFIDED THAT SHE KEPT A GARMENT WITH CLINTON'S DRIED SEMEN ON IT -- A GARMENT SHE ALLEGEDLY SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WASH." ELSEWHERE, SEVERAL NEWS ORGANIZATION ARE PREPARING TO DESCRIBE MESSAGES LEFT ON LEWINSKY'S HOME ANSWERING MACHINE -- VOICE MESSAGES THAT HAVE THE PRESIDENT URGING LEWINSKY TO 'STAY ON MESSAGE.' DEVELOPING... "

Freeper report: CNBC Michael Barone 7/29/98 made a comment that the justice dept in Iowa ( which make it federal ie Justice dept) had just sucessfully tried and convicted a case so simlar to Clinton sex prejury - and obstruction- and that justice dept was bragging about it..

7/29/98 Deborah Orin NY Post "President Clinton now faces a window of just a few days left when he can 'fess up and tell all about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky - otherwise he's stuck gambling that stonewalling will work. And it's a real gamble because Clinton can't be sure what Lewinsky has told prober Ken Starr - and polls send mixed signals on whether the president's public support might now be at risk."But the truth is, no one knows where this is going to go. Polling now is nonsensical - it tells you nothing. But if and when we get to questions of cover-up, he's in trouble. People may say, "Wink, wink, we know he's lying' - but they'll think it's much more serious when they hear details." If Clinton doesn't 'fess up, it's unclear what options he has left other than stonewalling and insisting that Lewinsky is lying.."

Washington Post 7/29/98 Lloyd Grove ".At 2:41 p.m. in the jampacked White House press room, McCurry commenced his afternoon briefing. On a genuinely sad day - the president at that very moment was preparing to eulogize the two Capitol police officers who had died trying to stop a rampaging gunman - the press secretary arrived in somber pinstripes to fence with the White House regulars. His jaw set in a thoughtful frown, McCurry announced the president's reaction to the Lewinsky news - "I think that he's pleased that things are working out for her" - which in turn produced a reaction of its own: collective eye-rolling. "What do you mean, he's pleased things are working out for her?" "You mean the president sees this as a good development, Mike?" "What do you mean, 'working out for her'?" So it was off to the races. The reporters jabbed with sharp questions. McCurry dodged and deflected, or tried to confuse the issue with humor. The press jabbed some more. McCurry pushed back. Made a joke. Smiled winningly. Changed the subject. And so on. "What are the president's thoughts about Monica Lewinsky at this point?" "Did he send her a note, Mike, of congratulations?" "In a news conference a few months ago, the president said he would never resign. Is that still his thinking? At this McCurry bristled. "I don't even know why on earth the question would get posed." "Mike, elaborate on the president's mood ... " .There were some typical exchanges with CBS White House correspondent Scott Pelley, who bombarded McCurry with the grim sonorities of a prosecutor: "Mike, in the Roosevelt Room when the president said he had not had sex with Monica Lewinsky, was he telling the truth at that time?" "I believe so, yes. ... " "Mike, you said that the president has told the truth. If Miss Lewinsky - " "I said I believe he has told the truth, correct. That's what you asked." "Is there a difference?" "Well, I believe he has told the truth. I don't think there's a difference." "So you're not willing to state flatly that he has told the truth - it's your belief?" McCurry took refuge in philosophical terminology: "I can only report what I can ontologically know, right?."

Freeper East Side VRWC 7/28/98 "ABCNEWS World News Tonight, ABC.com July 28, 1998 Jackie Judd On ABC's World News Tonight, Jackie Judd said that, although Monica Lewinsky will not testify that thePresident directly told her to lie, she will testify that he suggested "hypothetical" examples of what her testimony could be. And Judd also said that Monica identified the person who wrote the "talking points." The ABC.com summary of Judd's report, posted here, reports the former but not the latter point. .."

Freeper FirstFlaBn 7/28/98 "NBC News Lisa Myers According to Lisa Myers on NBC News tonight, a "source outside Starr's office" says the deal included "tapes from her telephone answering machine allegedly of phone messages from the president." Meyers also hinted at Lewinsky verifying earlier stories about the return of gifts."

7/28/98 USA Journal "Several prominent Democratic lawmakers and pundits have begun to urge President Clinton to comply with a subpoena to appear before the Monica Lewinsky grand jury. The subpoena, issued nearly two weeks ago, was not announced by the White House until news of a gun battle within the Capitol building erupted last Friday. Two Capitol Police officers died in that shootout, and two others were injured. Critics said that the timing of the release of the information regarding Clinton's subpoena was in "extremely poor taste," though most people don't believe there was any so-called conspiracy in the matter. Many of the country's top Democrats were speaking for Clinton's compliance with the Starr subpoena. ." listed were George Stephanopoulos, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun [D-IL]. Sen. Joseph Lieberman [D-Conn.].Rep. William Lipinsky [D-IL]. Rep. Rod Blagojevich [D-IL] Rep. Dick Gephardt, Democrat House Minority Leader. ex-White House deputy counsel Lanny Davis.

7/28/98 AP News Analysis Ron Fournier "As former White House intern Monica Lewinsky moves into prosecutor Kenneth Starr's orbit, the president is left with few options -- and none are very attractive.It is possible, said a lawyer in the president's camp, that Starr subpoenaed Clinton to put pressure on him to testify -- while quietly approaching Ms. Lewinsky with an immunity deal that makes testifying dangerous for Clinton. ``He's been completely boxed in,'' the lawyer said. ``It's checkmate.'' "

Freeper Ken Cook 7/29/98 ".Gary Aldrich was on the Howie Carr radio show from 4PM to about 5PM EST to discuss his imminent vindication. Howie asked Aldrich if the "handwriting was on the wall" concerning Bill Clinton. Aldrich replied it was more like "handwriting on the freeway." Aldrich PREDICTED that Bill Clinton would resign by Labor Day. He maintains that Starr has "far more" on Clinton than just Lewinsky. (Of course, we all know that!) Starr will nail Clinton and his gang for misuse of government funds, intimidation of witnesses, obstruction of justice and perjury among other things. (Sounds like RICO to me) Aldrich said that at least (if not more) than 15 Secret Service agents have already talked to Ken Starr and that they have identified many other witnesses who Starr is in the process of locating. It is the Secret Service who will ultimately bring Bill Clinton down. There are many patriotic agents who are disgusted by what they've witnessed and are more than happy to tell Starr all about it. Aldrich also predicted that the GOP stands to pick up many seats in this year's congressional elections. The fact the GOP has control of Congress since 1994 and now control the lion's share of governor seats across the nation should speak for itself. Despite what the polls say, the majority of Americans do not support Bill Clinton and the Democratic party. Howie brought up the drug angle. Asked Gary Aldrich point blank if he knowledge of Clinton using drugs in the White House whether it be "smoke or powder." Aldrich was reluctant to answer this question directly but did say that he "would not be surprised" that Clinton used drugs in the White House. However, he did say he would be surprised if Starr included it in his report Aldrich went on to say that there is a "pro-drug" culture among White House staffers. Many of them see drugs as a lifestyle choice. Nothing Clinton does surprises Aldrich. He "does not want to believe" that Clinton was involved in Arkancides but states that Clinton is certainly capable of knowing about them and covering them up (WOW!). Aldrich believes that Lindsey will soon cut a deal or be indicted. He believes this will happen "very soon." He feels that Starr has Clinton already and DOES NOT NEED his testimony in front of a grand jury. Aldrich believes that the subpoena of Clinton is merely "pro forma" and it does not matter to Starr one way or the other whether Clinton complies with it. Clinton is a dead duck either way. .."

7/30/98 Drudge on George Putname Show KIEV "I did some comparing of the Talking Points and Clinton's testimony. Hold on to your teeth. There is an identical line. And the talking points were written BEFORE his testimony. There was an identical line. Same wordage. What in the world was going on back there. " "I think Starr has got the entire case sealed. I don't think there's even a question mark, in my mind, I've been briefed on some other things I can't go into exactly at this hour...but I'm putting my money in rubber bands."

7/31/98 New York Times John Broder Don Van Natta Jr. "Prosecutors are seeking genetic testing of a dress belonging to Monica S. Lewinsky that she says contains physical evidence of a sexual encounter with President Clinton, lawyers close to the case say. Lewinsky turned the dress over to the office of the Whitewater independent counsel, Kenneth W. Starr, on Wednesday, lawyers said. It had been kept for the past several months in the New York apartment of Lewinsky's mother, Marcia Lewis, putting her in jeopardy of an obstruction-of-justice charge for concealing evidence that prosecutors had sought in a search of Lewinsky's Watergate apartment this year. Lewinsky and Lewis were given broad grants of immunity from prosecution this week in exchange for providing full accounts of Lewinsky's relationship with the President. They also agreed to turn over evidence, including the dress and answering machine tapes containing messages to Lewinsky from the President, the lawyers said. The messages were innocuous, said a lawyer who had heard them. In one, just before Christmas last year, the President told Lewinsky that the brother of his private secretary, Betty Currie, had died. In another, the lawyer said, Clinton said, "Hey, it's me. Sorry I missed you." ."If there is no sperm on the dress, that's the end of the hysteria," Scheck said. "If there is, there is no legal basis for the President to resist giving a DNA sample, a simple swab from the inside his cheek." . The procession of witnesses before the grand jury continued today, with seven Secret Service officers appearing before two separate panels at the Federal courthouse.Hyde said the House was "not bound" by Starr's report, and he added that the Judiciary Committee might decide to obtain evidence themselves. "

The London Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard "The booming US economy came to a sudden halt in the second quarter of this year. The Clinton presidency is now following suit in the third quarter. . But after years of ineffectual dithering, Kenneth Starr has at last got the bit between his teeth. Something must have nettled him. Mutterings about his incompetence within the legal fraternity, perhaps, or more likely an arms-length White House smear campaign that saw a private investigator hired to watch his social life. (It was alleged, falsely, that he had a mistress in Little Rock.) In recent days, Mr Starr has secured the grand jury testimony of 11 Secret Service agents who work in the presidential protection detail. One of them reportedly served as a "facilitator", procuring "come hither" women spotted by the President on his trips around the country. It will be interesting to see if this agent can match the tally set by my good friend L D Brown, former corporal in the Arkansas State Police, who has testified under oath that he solicited more than 100 women for Bill Clinton during a two-year stint at the Governor's Mansion in the 1980s. This Secret Service testimony seems to have convinced Mr Starr that he finally had enough evidence to move against the White House. He promptly issued Bill Clinton with a summons to appear before the grand jury, the first such subpoena ever served on a President. In quick succession, Monica Lewinsky's lawyers announced that she had agreed to a deal with the Office of the Independent Counsel, promising "full and truthful testimony" in exchange for blanket immunity from prosecution. Her mother, Marcia Lewis, who seems to have been an assiduous promoter of her daughter's Oval Office trysts, also struck a deal. And if that was not enough, Mr Starr won a separate victory when a federal appeals court ruled that Bruce Lindsey, the President's closest confidant at the White House, did not enjoy attorney-client privilege and would therefore have to testify as well. It has been a long wait, but it now looks as if the shoe really is going to drop.I hesitate to conclude that Bill Clinton is doomed, however. What if he puts on one of his magnificent, lip-biting, teary acts of contrition in the Oval Office, with the whole nation watching bewitched on television, and ends with an admission of the Lewinsky affair and a plea for forgiveness? . It would be utterly nauseating, yet it might very well work in the mushy, sentimental, post-Christian morality of fin de siŠcle America. He may skate yet, as they say in Arkansas."

NBC News 7/30/98 Chip Reed NBC is reporting that Vernon Jordan is no longer a target of Ken Starr's investigation. Reportedly, the silence-for-job angle is no longer one of the areas of focus. Monica effectively exonerated Jordan of any wrong.

7/29/98 AP Laurie Kellman "Preparing for a report from Independant Councel Kenneth Starr, House Democrats have quietly increased the size of their staff for dealing with any possible impeachment proceedings against President Clinton.."

The American Spectator 7/28-8/3/98 E. Emett Tyrrell, Jr. ".Here at The American Spectator we have been of two minds as to what Starr was going to bring down on the President. Byron York has argued with the utmost intelligence that Starr's report to congress will be narrowly focused. I have been of the opinion that his report will be vast, embracing wrongdoing from the Clintons' larval stages in Arkansas, including cover-ups of the Travel Office, Filegate, the RTC investigation, and on to the Monica business. Whoever is right, it looks like Starr's work is about to leave the Clintons with no escape. The hot summer we predicted last Spring has come."

7/31/98 LA Times Robert Jackson Ronald Ostrow "Investigators for independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr have asked the FBI to test a navy blue dress that belongs to Monica S. Lewinsky for DNA evidence that might match President Clinton, legal sources said Thursday..One legal source familiar with the dress said it is doubtful that it would produce any DNA markings that could be traced to another person. "The importance of the dress is probably exaggerated," the source said. "There are no noticeable stains on it." Lewinsky told Linda Tripp, her onetime friend, in a phone call taped by Tripp last year that she had kept the dress as a souvenir because it contained Clinton's semen stains, according to previously published excerpts of the tapes.An official familiar with FBI techniques, told the dress had no recognizable stains, said that "with techniques today you can determine trace evidence in truly minute amounts."."

NBC Robert Windrem 7/30/98 "In the investigation of the president, a Navy blue cocktail dress that Monica Lewinsky said contains proof of a sexual relationship with the president, could speak volumes. Attorney Barry Scheck, who served as the DNA expert on O.J. Simpson's legal defense team said a test for DNA on the dress could take a "day or two" and would be very conclusive even if the evidence is more than a year old. ..He said FBI analysts would do what's called a photomicrograph of the dress to find any stain that might contain sperm heads - the tip of the spermatozoa... He said the president's DNA would show up even if it's a year old - if the dress hasn't been washed with detergent."Stains that were years old have been successfully tested," he said. He said even if the dress had been dry-cleaned, it would not inhibit the DNA match. However, detergent ruins the test because chemicals open up the sperm head cells and wash out the DNA, he said. If needed, a more extensive test, called a Restricted Fragmented Length Polymorphism test, could be done and would take two to three weeks, but Scheck said such a test is highly unlikely in this case. Scheck, whose Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School has helped free 35 prisoners with the aid of DNA testing, said if the president's DNA was found on the dress, he would have little choice but to provide DNA samples under current law."

7/30/98 Reuters "More Americans are ready to consider impeaching President Clinton, opinion polls suggested Thursday, amid reports that Monica Lewinsky has provided physical evidence of their alleged sexual affair. Two new polls showed an increased appetite for impeachment proceedings, with one showing a rise in the last month and another showing a solid majority in favor of using impeachment to determine whether Clinton should be removed from office.

7/31/98 MSNBC "BREAKING: MSNBC: PETE WILLIAMS: VISIBLE STAIN ON LEWINSKY DRESS MSNBC anchor Linda Vester, quoting MSNBC correspondent Pete Williams, says that DNA testing is being performe on the Lewinsky dress and that a visible stain has already been found. Vester, quoting Williams: "There is definitely a stain on that dress."

7/31/98 FOX NEWS CONFIRMS!! "Rita Cosby has learned from law enforcement officials that there is a visible stain on the dress. But it will take several more hours to determine if there is enough DNA material to test. "

7/31/98 David Shuster Fox News . Fox just reported that Linda has testified that Lindsay threatened to "DESTROY HER", after Linda became embroiled in the Willy sexcapade. Linda told the Grand Jury that .he told her " You need to be a team player, you have 2 kids to worry about."

7/31/98 LA Times Gerald F Uelmen "Why should he provide Starr with information that the counsel has been unable to get elsewhere on his own? If one were to ask any criminal defense lawyer in America what advice he now would give Bill Clinton if he were not president of the United States, one would receive a remarkably consistent response: "Take the 5th."."

In contradiction the Kendall's assertion that a videotape would be provided to the Grand Jury, NBC Claire Shipman on 7/31/8 said that Clinton will testify via closed circuit TV and the grand jurors will be able to ask questions, relayed to prosecutors.

WRKO AM Boston Freeper Yikes "WRKO is reporting that Ken Starr will take an indefinite leave of absence from his Chicago law firm. No other details."

MSNBC 7/31/98 "As President Bill Clinton told Americans on Friday that he is anxious to testify about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky "completely and truthfully," the nation's attention was riveted on a navy blue cocktail dress that NBC News has been told contains a visible stain - a stain Lewinsky says is evidence of a sexual relationship with the president. Shortly after Clinton's unexpected statement, sources told NBC News that a cocktail dress that Lewinsky has turned over to prosecutors does have a visible stain on it. Lewinsky says the dress holds physical evidence - semen stains, sources have told news organizations - that will prove she had sexual relations with Clinton. The FBI lab in Quantico, Va., was conducting DNA tests on the garment on Friday. "

To Freeper Wright is Right From Freeper Gary Aldrich "Attention Freepers. FBI lab report is in! Trained FBI lab aides have confirmed that Monica's dress has RICO spilled all over it! Hang in there........ Gary Aldrich, Author: Unlimited Access"

8/1/98 NY Post Deborah Orin, Brian Blomquist Marilyn Rauber "Most Americans think President Clinton can end the Sexgate probe if he'll just 'fess up and admit sex with Monica Lewinsky, a bombshell new poll shows. . Rumors raced around Washington like wildfire of a possible Clinton mea-culpa speech where the president would drop his original claim he "never had sexual relations with that woman."A congressional source insisted Clinton's current chief-of-staff, Erskine Bowles, was calling lawmakers on Capitol Hill to get reaction to a possible Clinton mea-culpa speech, but a Bowles aide denied it. Bowles has been returning calls from lawmakers and isn't exploring a possible mea-culpa speech, said spokeswoman Amy Weiss Tobe. But a Democratic strategist insisted Bowles has indeed called lawmakers to float the trial balloon, adding: "Some people gulped. They read into it the admission that Clinton has something to confess." .Several sources said the poll-fixated White House has been conducting frantic surveys, ever since Starr subpoenaed Clinton in the case, to test possible strategies. "

AP 8/1/98 Pete Yost "A pivotal meeting in reaching Monica Lewinsky's immunity deal took place a week and a half ago in the Chevy Chase, Md., home of prosecutor Kenneth Starr's ethics adviser, Sam Dash, who has known Ms. Lewinsky's two lead lawyers for more than two decades.."

Progressive Review Online 7/31/98 "New York Post's financial columnist John Crudele -- who has been ahead of the curve on the Clinton scandal story -- writes that Starr will present Congress with a 300-page report and that, contrary to other media accounts, the House Republicans are ready and waiting to move ahead on impeachment. "That means, of course, that Starr believes Clinton committed 300 pages worth of offenses that can get him kicked out of office even before Lewinsky's agreement entered the picture earlier this week. "A very reliable source tells me that Starr has decided to include Lewinsky's story in the report, but not - and this is very important - wait until President Clinton's testimony can be digested before moving the document to Rep. Henry Hyde of the Judiciary Committee. So the White House won't have the opportunity to stall the situation in the courts." Crudele sees trouble in all of this for the financial markets and reports that the July 30 rally was "engineered through some mysterious, heavy buying of stock futures contracts early Thursday morning." This is not the first time in the Clinton years, incidentally, that there have been signs of government manipulation of the futures market in order to create the appearance of financial stability."

7/30/98 MSNBC Severin "The president of the United States is in a spot of bother. Bill Clinton awoke today wistfully recalling the good old days (last week) when he was merely a suspected adulterer - as opposed to a suspected perjurer and obstructer of justice. You never know how good you have it until things suddenly turn much worse. AND WORSE it is. This Nixon impersonation is becoming eerily realistic. It's starting to give even Democrats the creeps. At this rate, in a few weeks the president's "allies" in Congress are going to make rats running off a sinking ship seem indecisive by comparison."

American Spectator 7/31/98 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. " .Press and his fellow apologists have yet to perceive that the President's current predicament has been ensured by the Office of Independent Counsel. Starr has displayed the kind of diligence and courage, steadfastness and intelligence, that might well land him an honored place in American history. They cackle that all Starr has on Clinton is mere sex. They recite the millions Starr has spent and the years that his quest has taken, and they say, as this public idiot Press did the other day, "With [this] one admission Monica Lewinsky exposes the total absurdity of the entire Starr investigation: It's all about sex." .The hour of the Big Bang approaches. And while the die-hard apologists are larfing it up about the derisible Judge Starr, let me remind you of an historian's judgment about the last great presidential crisis of this magnitude, Watergate. Said he of President Richard Nixon, "the runaway Presidency had been checked by the recalcitrance of institutions--the independent judiciary, the free press, the investigative power of Congress." Note that each of those institutions is even now being targeted by this Administration for harassment and smears. And the historian goes on, "Still, these institutions would not have been effective had they not happened to be manned, at the critical conjunctions, by courageous individuals, ready to accept the risk and obloquy of becoming Enemies of the President." The judgment is that of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in his hortatory book The Imperial Presidency. Schlesinger proceeds to quote Walter Lippmann in a passage that may sober up some of the President's cackling apologists. During Senator Sam Ervin's hearings in the summer of 1973 Lippmann wrote, "Watergate shows how very vulnerable our constitutional system is. If the national government falls into the hands of sufficiently unprincipled and unscrupulous men, they can do terrible things before anyone can stop them." ."

NY Times Bruce Weber 8/2/98 "The Hamptons didn't exactly offer President Clinton a red carpet and a clamorous ovation this weekend. The greeting was more confused than that, more complicated, muted.."

The New York Times Maureen Dowd 8/2/98 "Here is a consumer tip I never thought I'd find in The New York Times: "If semen is found on the dress, prosecutors would then probably seek a saliva or blood sample from the President to determine if the DNA matched," read the lead story on Friday about President Clinton's travails. "Such a stain would retain DNA material for many years, unless the dress had been cleaned with detergents, said experts in DNA testing. Dry cleaning alone would not remove it, nor would storage under poor conditions, they said." Hints from Heloise meets White House coverage. Forget money laundering. Now it's just laundering.."

US News 8/10/98 Kenneth Walsh, Major Garrett Marianne Lavelle and Julian Barnes ".Bill Clinton reluctantly agreed to be questioned on closed-circuit television at the White House on August 17. It will, finally, be his day of reckoning..Given that his comments will be closely scrutinized for perjury and possible evidence of other crimes, the possibility of impeachment proceedings is no longer a mere abstraction. Whatever the outcome, Clinton will be the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury as the target of a criminal inquiry. He will have to endure the humiliation of answering detailed questions about the most intimate aspect of his private life--his sexual activities..Some congressional Republicans believe Starr may deliver a report to Congress that extends well beyond Lewinsky matters. Under this theory, the report would encompass all the Clinton-related matters Starr has looked into over the past four years-- including the so-called Whitewater, Travelgate, and Filegate investigations--using details from all of them to argue that Clinton engaged in a pattern of deception, obfuscation, and obstruction. .. For prosecutors, the obstruction case has always been the most substantive. Lewinsky has offered to testify that Clinton described to her hypothetical language that could be used to conceal their relationship. Such evidence is not definitive proof of obstruction of justice. But combined with the allegation that Clinton reviewed what he knew about Lewinsky with his personal secretary Betty Currie, a conversation that could be interpreted as coaching his aide to align her recollections with his in case she was called to testify in the Jones case, prosecutors believe they have the foundation of an obstruction case.. In deciding to testify, Clinton has placed himself at considerable risk. If he did not tell the truth last January when deposed in the Jones case, in response to the question about "sexual relations" with Lewinsky, he faces two problematic options. Either he admits to committing perjury then, or he risks committing perjury again by repeating his Jones testimony--this time before a federal grand jury. A second perjury would mean that Clinton's defenders could no longer argue that Starr was building a case out of an essentially trivial matter.But it may not be exactly a he-said, she-said case. The president will face a massive amount of potential corroboration collected by Starr over six months, including Secret Service testimony, sightings by White House staffers, White House logs of visits, 20 hours of Tripp-Lewinsky telephone tapes, and the recording made of Lewinsky when Tripp was wired by the FBI. .. Nonetheless, while the nation and most lawmakers have yet to decide if committing perjury in the Jones case qualifies as an impeachable crime, several Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have already decided it does. "To commit an act of perjury is unacceptable," says Rep. Charles Canady of Florida. "It's not a matter we can simply wink at." The other issues involve the broad themes of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. Did Clinton obstruct justice by allegedly suggesting ways Lewinsky could conceal their affair? Paul Rothstein, a law professor at Georgetown University, says that depends on whom and what the cover stories were for--for friends and associates, for a court affidavit, or for a deposition. "If they were actually discussing her testimony in the Paula Jones case, that would definitely be illegal," Rothstein says. "It would definitely be suborning perjury, possibly obstruction of justice. It's witness tampering." But even then, Rothstein adds, Clinton may have an out, because the lie must involve something material to the case. "It has to be capable of influencing the judicial proceedings in which it is given." And a federal judge in Arkansas ruled that evidence regarding Clinton's relationship with Lewinsky was not essential to the Jones case.. A source very close to the president told U.S. News that Clinton realizes he must tell the truth to the grand jury or Starr will make a convincing case of perjury--and Congress will then begin impeachment hearings. Clinton is said to understand that even if those hearings didn't lead to actual impeachment, they would put the country through a lengthy trauma and would paralyze him and his administration.Still, sources say that both Mrs. Clinton and Kendall adamantly want him to stick to his earlier denial. And there are no plans at the White House for the president to make any mea culpa speech at this time. If it happens, Clinton strategists say, it would not be before he gives his August 17 testimony. Starr's questions will help his legal team to determine exactly what evidence the independent counsel has--knowledge that could be vital in crafting a mea culpa that would win public sympathy and blunt any counterattack by Starr's office.. White House advisers are concerned that Starr will deliver his report just before the midterm elections--as a bombshell designed to hurt the Democrats in November. Then, according to this thinking, which assumes continued GOP control of Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde will give Starr two or three days to present his findings on national TV in January or February, with no questions allowed until later. Democrats worry that Starr will effectively present a mini-soap opera detailing Lewinsky's time at the White House, with spicy riffs on her romantic entanglements with the president, and this will cause the country to turn on Clinton. Republicans have already agreed on how to proceed once the report arrives. First, they will try to sequester the report. Despite the media feeding frenzy they know will ensue, Republicans want to keep it closely held until a handful of lawmakers can review its contents and recommend to the full House whether public hearings are warranted. Sequestering the report will require a change in House rules that currently permit any member to request a copy. House Democrats are expected to comply. "We want to keep it under lock and key," says Hyde. "We don't want people just piling on like it was a sale at J. C. Penney." .Unlike some senior Republicans, Hyde sees no reason to conduct hearings on the report unless the goal is to draft, debate, and vote on articles of impeachment."We want to do this in as much of a bipartisan way as possible," he says. "Whatever we do will be criticized for its partisanship. When this begins, I am going to paint myself with shark repellent every morning." ."

US News 8/10/98 Kenneth Walsh, Major Garrett Marianne Lavelle and Julian Barnes ".Starr's score card. Four years ago this week, Kenneth Starr took over the Whitewater investigation. The results so far: Indictments: 19; convictions: 12; acquittals or mistrials: 2; indictments thrown out by courts: 7; indictments reinstated by higher courts: 3. Highest-ranking official forced from office: Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker; highest-ranking official named by Starr as an unindicted co-conspirator and allowed to remain in office: Deputy White House Counsel Bruce Lindsey; lowest-ranking official named as an unindicted co- conspirator and forced from office: Bill Watt, a Little Rock traffic judge. Longest prison sentence: 3 years, to Jim McDougal, who died in prison after serving less than a year; most time served: 21 months, by Susan McDougal, including 18 months for contempt of court and 3 months for a Whitewater conviction. Money spent on investigations through last September: $35 million; number of lawyers on Starr's staff before the Lewinsky investigation: 18; lawyers added since then: 10. Witnesses who have appeared before grand juries in the Lewinsky investigation: at least 59; witness with most grand jury appearances: Linda Tripp (8). Number of times Starr questioned Bill Clinton about Whitewater and related matters: 3; times he questioned Hillary Rodham Clinton: 3. Number of reports issued: 1 (a finding that White House lawyer Vincent Foster committed suicide).

NY Post 8/2/98 Brian Blomquist "Sexgate investigator Kenneth Starr may slap White House Counsel Chuck Ruff and top lawyers in his office with subpoenas this week, sources said yesterday. The subpoenas could go out right after the White House announces tomorrow whether it will appeal recent decisions that Deputy White House Counsel Bruce Lindsey doesn't have attorney-client privilege and must testify for Starr, the sources said. Ruff and other members of the White House Counsel's Office, including Cheryl Mills and Lanny Breuer, are expecting subpoenas from Starr, the sources said. Officials claim that Ruff and other White House lawyers, knowing they might be called to testify, have consciously stayed in the dark about intimate aspects of Clinton's relationship with ex-intern Monica Lewinsky..

NY Post 8/2/98 Deborah Orin ".Once again, the hot news was whether President Clinton had sex with Monica Lewinsky, but now it turned out she really had saved a stained dress as a love token - and the FBI was testing it for Clinton's semen, just the way a crime lab might test for a rape suspect's DNA. .."Ginsburg was almost a metaphor for the case - it was hard to take it seriously as long as he was Lewinsky's lawyer," said a Democratic strategist. With her husband in peril, Hillary Clinton took control, telling the world that her husband was the victim of a vast right-wing conspiracy even though Lewinsky was a Democrat who'd gotten her intern's post through a fat-cat pal of Hillary Clinton herself... Then came yet another bombshell - yes, there really was a dress and Lewinsky had turned it over to Starr, who had given it to the FBI for testing. Wannabe media watchdog Steve Brill now looked a laughingstock for ridiculing the story..Once again, the Clinton presidency is on the line and most Americans agree their president should have to give blood or hair samples if Lewinsky's dress bears semen stains. So on Aug. 17 when Clinton testifies, he faces the riskiest choice in his presidency - whether to cling to a story that most Americans think is a lie, and risk being forced to give a blood sample like a common criminal. His other options, equally dicey, are to take the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination like a mobster, or to say he lied to protect his wife and daughter and hope Americans will forgive him.Surely this wasn't what Clinton was thinking of during his 1996 re-election when he worried aloud about how history will see him."

Washington Post Dan Balz and Susan Schmidt 8/2/98 "Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr has issued hundreds of subpoenas over the course of his four-year investigation. He has served them on Arkansas rogues, convicted politicians, White House aides, Secret Service officers, and even friends of interns. But none may be more important than one dated July 17, 1998. It snared the president of the United States.Starr's moves were all the more effective because they marked a break from his usual patterns and therefore surprised his doubters. Starr, who has shown no patience in the past for recalcitrant witnesses, suddenly offered an olive branch that brought Lewinsky to him. And, after months of unsuccessful efforts to negotiate for their testimony, he abruptly got tough with the president and the Secret Service. "These were aggressive strategic moves, and probably reflect Starr's desire to bring this to conclusion as quickly as possible," said John Bates, former deputy to Starr who is now in private legal practice..Little is known about what the Secret Service employees have told the grand jury, other than they have been asked about times and dates of Lewinsky's Oval Office visits. In court papers seeking their testimony, Starr described the Secret Service testimony as some of the most important evidence his office is seeking. His office, he said, "is in possession of information that Secret Service personnel may have observed evidence of possible crimes while stationed in and around the White House complex." .At a time when many legal experts - and some of the president's advisers - were arguing against testifying on the grounds that it would put the president too much at risk, it became clear that Democratic lawmakers would not support a protracted battle over the issue.Leaks about what Lewinsky has told prosecutors, particularly any disclosures of physical evidence, could be instructive as he prepares to testify. "The leaks are clear signals to the president by people who don't want him to commit perjury that it may not be just a 'he-said, she-said' case," said George Washington University criminal law professor Stephen Saltzburg. .. In an ABC News poll, 68 percent of those surveyed said they believed Clinton and Lewinsky had a sexual relationship (it was at 53 percent in January), but 63 percent approved of the way he is handling his job as president and 57 percent said they would oppose impeaching him for lying under oath about the affair. In the welter of polling data that gushed forth, there was one interesting finding, however. A poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News asked the public to state which of the key players in the drama they liked least. Linda Tripp led the pack at 32 percent. The president was next at 22 percent, followed by Starr at 21 percent. Monica Lewinsky, whom many in the White House and elsewhere regard as a damaged witness against the president, turned out to be the least unpopular of the group. She was liked least by only 13 percent of those surveyed."All of this speculation about what's good and what's not presumes a familiarity with the facts," one Democratic strategist said. He added, "If Starr is writing a report with [Lewinsky's] testimony, her mother's testimony, Linda Tripp's tapes, the Secret Service and all the corroborative evidence, it seems that when all this is put together, it makes it a different story than it was yesterday."."

Roll Call 8/3/98 Jim VandeHei "With Democrats grumbling that there isn't enough time left before November elections, Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill) last week said Republicans wouldn't delay hearings on a report from independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Hyde, when asked about Democratic complaints that it would be unfair to hold hearings in the fall, said: "I would not share that view because this is an onerous duty and I think the American people are entitled [for Republicans to act] regardless of the calendar." ."We are not bound by the report, nor confined by it," Hyde said. ."

NY Post 8/3/98 Steve Dunleavy ".The photo of Al Gore scratching his head while Bill Clinton pledges to tell the truth may be the one of the most telling visions since Gary Hart was seen with a girl on his lap on a boat called Monkey Business.It is one of the few pictures I've seen of Al Gore in months, apart from the tragic moment in the rotunda honoring two brave, fallen officers. In newspaper terms, when it comes to photo ops, the vice president has been the incredible shrinking man. The other day, I was at the Irish cultural center called Langan's, speaking to my social scientist, Eddie Kavanaugh. My eyes were as wide as silver dollars. .I never believed these words would be coming from my mouth: "Do you know the New York Times and the Washington Post are almost doing as good a job as the New York Post in nailing the Clintonistas?" Professor Kavanaugh looked at me as if I'd just gotten off the boat and was speaking sign language. "What plane just arrived from Venus, and how did you get a visa, you numbskull?" the professor said. "Don't you understand that the New York Times and the Washington Post and the Washington establishment realize it's all over for Bill Clinton? "But they're going to make sure, the Washington establishment, that Al Gore, their boy, is assured." ."Simply this. If ever there was a Washington establishment guy who is going to be protected by the Katherine Grahams of the Washington Post or the Sulzbergers of The New York Times, it is Al Gore," he said, looking at me as if I had just found El Dorado. .. Clearly, the liberals are already circling the wagons and telling Bill Clinton to take a long walk off a short pier. "You don't see pics of Al Gore unless he is scratching his head when Bill is pledging to tell the truth, nothing but the truth," Kavanaugh said. "You don't see him saying anything. You don't see him doing anything. You don't hear anything from him. "Al Gore is the invisible man. Because a little down the road, the Washington establishment wants to portray him as the incredible hulk." Professor Kavanaugh rests his case."

Capitol Hill Blue D. Thompson 8/3/98 "Democratic Congressional leaders are demanding a face- to-face meeting with President Bill Clinton "as quickly as possible" to discuss what they feel is a crucial "apology to the American people" regarding his long-denied relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Hill sources told Capitol Hill Blue Sunday. As evidence continues to mount that Clinton has lied about having an affair with Lewinsky, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate conferred by phone throughout the weekend to discuss a dwindling list of options available to the President. "The time has come for the President to come to Jesus," said one senior Democatic aide. "His support is rapidly eroding within his own party. He has to come clean as quickly as possible or his presidency is effectively over." House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt contacted the White House Sunday and demanded that Clinton meet with he and other party leaders as early as possible to discuss the President's upcoming testimony to Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr's grand jury and what they feel now is a "mandatory full explanation to the American people," sources said."

Freeper report 8/3/98 "Mutual News Radio is reporting that the White House is refusing to deny that Clinton has been subpoenaed for a DNA sample (which in White House speak usually means he has)."

Freeper A Whitewater Researcher 8/3/98 "BREAKING: MSNBC: STARR WINS APPEALS COURT DECISION ON LEAKS EDIE MAGNUS MSNBC ANCHOR: ...NBC News has learned that a appeals court decision on leaks---you'll remember there has been an ongoing fight between the White House and special prosecutor Starr over the issue of leaks. The president's attorney David Kendall has accused Mr. Starr of essentially misconduct, of leaking information to the media. There is an appeals court decision which went in favor of Ken Starr, which means that David Kendall, the president's lawyer, is not going to be allowed to ask Ken Starr questions, to depose him or his deputies under oath or to ask any questions during any upcoming hearings that may be held on the subject of leaks. So, this particular decision goes in favor of Ken Starr.... MSNBC CORRESPONDENT CHIP REID: ...(Judge Norma Hollaway Johson has been overruled)...David Kendall is not going to be able to grill Ken Starr or his top deputy Jackie Bennett. The appeals court has ruled in Ken Starr's favor. The appeals court order is being reviewed by both (Starr and Clinton) sides, redacting portions they believe should not be made public---then the appeals court will look at it, and the redacted decision will be be released. Appeals court may allow release of some portions of the opinion the parties wish to be redacted. Public release of redacted opinion probably later this week....

AP Wired John Solomon "As President Clinton's aides dampened speculation that he would change his story about Monica Lewinsky, a federal appeals court refused on Monday to block prosecutors from questioning presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey. The administration's emergency request, for an order to block the testimony, immediately went to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Supreme Court officials said. Rehnquist could decide the issue himself or send the matter to the full nine-member court. Even as Clinton aides fought to stop Lindsey, the deputy White House counsel, from having to answer questions, another White House lawyer who has played a key role in the legal battles in the Lewinsky case was subpoenaed to testify Tuesday before the grand jury, legal sources said. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Lanny Breuer was expected to appear as ordered, signaling that the White House's efforts to block its own lawyers from testifying on grounds of attorney-client privilege was nearing an end. Breuer has helped the White House handle subpoenas and document requests in the various investigations involving the Clinton administration.At the White House, the presidents' advisers played down the possibility that Clinton would reverse previous statements and admit to a sexual relationship with the former White House intern, a strategy suggested by some Republicans and Democrats over the weekend as a way to avoid impeachment proceedings.An outside adviser to the White House acknowledged, however, that much of Clinton's inner circle remained anxious to learn the results of FBI tests on a dress Ms. Lewinsky provided to prosecutors, which she claimed contained a stain from a 1996 sexual encounter with the president. "

Drudge 8/3/98 "NEW YORK TIMES: DNA TEST RESULT IN! Forensic scientists at the FBI crime laboratory completed a first set of tests on a blue dress that Ms. Lewinsky turned over to prosecutors, the NEW YORK TIMES is reporting in Tuesday editions.... The TIMES does not report the results: "The first test, performed under extremely tight security -- the result was being very closely held..."

AP 8/4/98 "Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist today rejected the White House's effort to keep prosecutors in the Monica Lewinsky case from questioning its lawyers about their advice to President Clinton. "

Wall Street Journal 8/4/98 Editorial "Everyone from Dick Morris to Orrin Hatch suggests that all will be forgiven if President Clinton confesses and apologizes. Never wanting to disturb an emerging consensus, we've given some thought to what Mr. Clinton might say: Yes, I lied about Monica, and now that the evidence is growing incontrovertible I have to admit it. I did that to protect my innocent wife and child, and am sure they will forgive me. And yes, I advised Monica to lie, pretty much the way I advised Gennifer Flowers to deny the same stuff years before. And yes, I put into motion events in which Monica asked Linda Tripp to lie, and also threatened Ms. Tripp if she wouldn't do it. I apologize to the American people.Now's the time to admit I was in the middle of arranging hush money for my good friend Webb Hubbell. And yes, I put Craig Livingstone up to ransacking the FBI files. And yes, I told my good friend Governor Jim Guy Tucker he was the target of a criminal probe on Whitewater. And yes, I had my good friend Vincent Foster sign a fraudulent tax return for 1992, omitting the gift I received from Jim McDougal when he assumed the Whitewater debts. I sincerely hope this didn't have anything to do with Vince's suicide. I apologize to the IRS, and will send a check for the taxes owed.I want to apologize to Paula Jones for all the loose talk about trailer trash and $100 bills. That's not right. I guess Kathleen Willey's life is ruined too. Kathy, seriously, I do apologize.I want to apologize to the staff workers that Hillary and I fired from the White House Travel Office. I shouldn't have let my good friend Harry Thomason talk me into that. And the IRS audit we ordered up for UltrAir, sorry about that. My lawyers said then, "Mrs. Clinton does not know the origin of the decision to remove White House Travel Office employees." That was a lie, and I'm sorry my good friend David Watkins had to take the fall for it. I guess that means I need to apologize to Travel Office director Billy Dale for getting the Justice Department to indict and put him through a trial; I felt good that a jury acquitted him in two hours.And yes, I met in the Oval Office in 1995 with Bruce Lindsey, John Huang, James Riady and Joe Giroir to set up a conspiracy to violate the campaign finance laws. The money received from Asian interests, not to mention AFL-CIO contributions in violation of the Beck decision, were the key to my 1996 election, and for this I extend deepest apologies to Bob Dole. In fact, I'll even apologize to Al Gore for making him my bag man at the Buddhist temple fundraiser; sorry, Al. And renting out the Lincoln Bedroom to so many people I never met before; I hope you'll forgive me for that, too. I'm sorry about the drug dealers who snuck in without my knowing it for White House photo-ops. And Charlie Trie fleeing to China? What more can I say?For anyone out there who's had to deal with my private investigators, Terry Lenzner or Jack Palladino, you have my blanket apology.On Whitewater, there's a whole host of people I'd like to apologize to but time permits only a couple. Jim, you were right about Hillary and me being a tornado in people's lives. I'm trying to fix that here tonight. I'm sorry Susan had to do so much hard time rather than say whether I told the truth at her trial. There were also a bunch of Administration folks who had to resign for giving me a "heads-up" on my Whitewater problems, and I'm real sorry for what happened to them. And I apologize to that Resolution Trust woman, Jean Lewis, for the smear campaign we waged against her; that was bad advice, and I shouldn't have taken it. This goes back a ways but it's time for me to apologize to Dan Lasater about that Little Rock cocaine conviction; Roger's testimony against you Dan was really the only option; I hope my pardon helped. Federal Judge Royce Lamberth deserves my apologies. My lawyers' reluctance to come clean with him over Hillary's Health Care Task Force drove him to say a government "should be held accountable when its officials run amok." And he was right about that. I shouldn't have told all those people who testified to the D'Amato committee to claim loss of memory; that kind of set a bad precedent. And yes it's true that Hillary's $100,000 commodity coup was a well-disguised bribe from Jim Blair and Tyson Foods. I stiffed the Tyson folks in 1979 when they wanted to put larger trucks on Arkansas roads, but have made up for it, and Mr. Blair has owned us ever since. Finally I want to take this opportunity to apologize for the lies I told to Col. Holmes concerning the ROTC, and I guess I should apologize to the guy who took my place in Vietnam. So now I can say that I sit before you tonight with a clean conscience. I ask the American people who elected me to forgive me for misleading them for five years, and I promise never again to tell a lie, engage in illicit sex, obstruct justice or abuse the powers invested in my high office. I hope after the little time we've spent together here this evening that I have earned your trust. God bless the American people for their infinite understanding."

Scott Pelley CBS 8/4/98 ".sources tell CBS News Lewinsky also gave investigators a photograph. CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Scott Pelley reports that the photograph is one of dozens taken of the president and Lewinsky, but it is unique and of interest to investigators. Sources say the photo carries a personal inscription that Lewinsky says was written by Mr. Clinton. The inscription is said to be very personal. Lewinsky concealed the picture from an FBI search, along with the dress and the answering machine tapes."

Washington Times 8/5/98 Greg Pierce "If President Clinton decides to make a full confession, as so many pundits and politicians are now urging, a reader suggests that he receive the same punishment as House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Last year, Mr. Gingrich agreed to settle an ethics complaint against him by paying the costs of the House investigation out of his own pocket. "If it was good enough for Newt to be punished that way, doesn't it seem right that the president should also have the same burden placed on him?" the reader asked."

Fox News 8/6/98 Freeper go star go reports "Fox News has been told by sources close to Monica Lewensky that she will testify that she had help from Bruce Lindsey to write the talking points".

Jim VandeHie 8/6/98 "If independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to Congress, Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill) may allow only some committee members full access to the report and grand jury material, the Illinois Republican said Tuesday. .

8/6/98 Creators Syndicate Tony Snow ".An extraordinary thing has happened lately. When pressed to discuss the president's behavior, Bill Clinton's friends have given up talking about facts and have lashed out against moral standards, instead. A few of the more famous claims: -- Nobody cares about adultery. -- Nobody cares about whether the president had sex with Monica Lewinsky, even though he swore under oath that he'd never had such relations with the intern. -- Nobody cares whether the president gave gifts to "that woman, Ms. Lewinsky" even though he said in sworn testimony that he couldn't remember doing such a thing (His exact words: "I don't recall. Do you know what they were?").-- Perjury doesn't matter when it concerns little stuff, like adultery. Everybody lies about sex. -- Perjury isn't an impeachable offense. It is not a high crime or misdemeanor. -- You can't blame him for obstructing justice. Ken Starr and the others are just engaged in a partisan vendetta.The chief executive, alone of all elected officials, promises to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. If he'll lie to a court, why trust him with the oath of office? "

MSNBC 8/6/98 "Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for the White House counsel's office, issued a brief but pointed statement hours before Lewinsky began her testimony: "We are hopeful that Ms. Lewinsky's grand jury appearance is a sign that this four-year investigation may soon be coming to a close.As prosecutors prepared Lewinsky, 25, for the grand jury appearance, NBC News was told that the FBI has finished conducting a first set of tests on a cocktail dress that Lewinsky reportedly has said contains physical evidence of a sex act with the president. The dark blue dress has been sent to a second lab for the results to be double-checked, sources said. "

Arianna Online Arianna Huffington 8/6/98 ".Far more interesting is what was going on the same day in an editorial board meeting with Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman at the Record-Journal in his home state of Connecticut. Lieberman was more outspoken than he has ever been before. ``(The president) definitely has a serious problem,'' Lieberman said. And then he went on to challenge the White House spin by saying that this case is not about sex or adultery. ``I do think the ultimate point here is a question of obstruction of justice and the validity of an oath taken,'' he elaborated. ``We have his clear denial and, therefore, if (the DNA testing) comes back differently than he said, then he has some explaining to do.'' He added that he is ``trying to be restrained and judge-like'' because as a senator he would, in fact, end up as a judge if Starr's report leads to the filing of articles of impeachment. .."

8/7/98 AP Larry Margasak "President Clinton's lawyers have provided enough evidence to indicate prosecutor Kenneth Starr's staff probably violated grand jury secrecy laws, a federal judge has found according to court documents released today. Lawyers for Clinton and White House aides ``have established prima facie violations'' of the secrecy rule that prohibits disclosure of any grand jury material, U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled. Johnson ruled that even one news article with leaked information could establish a violation. ``The court finds that several articles establish prima facie violations,'' she said. The records also show that the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected Starr's efforts to stop Johnson's investigation, allowing her to continue to collect evidence and hold a hearing to determine if Starr's office should be punished.."

8/6/98 CNBC Geraldo Live Dee Dee Myers and Geraldo Rivera ".Dee Dee Myers, why hasn't the president simply denied the possibility that a stain exists? DEE DEE MYERS FORMER CLINTON WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Because he can't. If he could of, he would of, Geraldo. As soon as Monica Lewinsky---weeks, to the affect that Monica Lewinsky said the White House didn't participate in the writing of 'the talking points', the White House was all over the place making sure there wasn't a reporter on the face of the earth who didn't know that she said that. In this case, it wasn't denied, quite simply in my opinion, uh and again, it's speculation on my part, but it wasn't denied because it can't be denied. ."

8/6/98 Office of U.S. Representative Bob Barr "."The president should be given the same choice as every American: Testify with the same limitations and rights as any other citizen, or don't testify and face the consequences. To offer him any other choice is unjust and unfair. And, from a practical standpoint, it's probably counterproductive." .In an article published in today's Atlanta Journal- Constitution, U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7) strongly criticized a plan to give President Clinton amnesty in return for "pouring his heart out" to the American people. Barr wrote, "The American justice system is the fairest in the world; primarily because we hold everyone equal in the eyes of the law. Granting special treatment to the President by absolving him of a crime -- even before we have a report from the prosecutor detailing what the evidence is -- sends a message to the American public that this principle is no longer operative. "It also doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that allowing the President broad immunity from punishment for perjury, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering, will result in disastrous consequences in courtrooms everywhere. It would set a precedent whereby criminals could receive amnesty in return for a tearful mea culpa and a promise to "go forth and sin no more." How many criminals wouldn't trade an apology for a conviction any day, if offered the opportunity?," Barr continued. ."

Dallas Morning News 8/7/98 Opinion ".Ms. Reno has only herself to blame for this sad state of affairs. If she had not so stubbornly resisted the good advice of legal scholars and her closest aides, she would not be a hair's width away from the full Congress issuing a criminal citation against her. Contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor carrying a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a fine of $100,000. The specter of an otherwise decent attorney general being carted to jail is painful to contemplate."

8/7/98 Linda Deutsch AP "Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, who spent nearly two years in prison for refusing to testify against President Clinton, expressed disdain Friday for Monica Lewinsky's decision to testify before a grand jury. ``I'm really glad I'm me and not Monica Lewinsky today,'' Mrs. McDougal said outside court after a brief scheduling appearance for her upcoming embezzlement trial, which begins Monday."

1996 NAIS Convention in Austin Texas "This year's NAIS convention received a surprise visitor from Arkansas, NAIS member Sam Tatom. Mr. Tatom is the former state police commissioner and former chief of police of Little Rock. His close cousin happens to be the President Of The United States.."

Capitol Hill Blue Larry Margasak AP 8/7/98 "Putting Kenneth Starr on the defensive at a critical time, a judge has ruled that ``serious and repetitive'' disclosures of secret grand jury evidence from his investigation warrant a hearing that could lead to penalties against prosecutors..Her ruling orders Starr and his staff to appear at hearing in which they must rebut the leak allegations to the judge's satisfaction or face penalties ranging from civil contempt of court to referral to the Justice Department for possible criminal charges. ..Starr said in a statement Friday that his office didn't violate grand jury secrecy rules and ``we welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that fact to the district court.'' Downplaying the significance of Johnson's ruling, Starr said the threshold for ordering such a hearing is low because ``the courts must presume that the media reports are entirely accurate.'' He suggested some of the leaks could have come from witnesses or lawyers who don't have to abide by the same secrecy requirements as prosecutors."

8/7/98 Drudge on Judge N. H Johnson ruling ".The court also finds that the Fox News report aired on May 6, 1998, regarding Mr. Starr's comment to the press about the court's opinion on executive privilege establishes a prima facie violation of Rule 6(e)(2) and a violation of the court's order that the parties receiving the opinion not discuss it with the press. Within a day of the court's releasing the opinion on May 4, 1998, the press began reporting that the court had issued a ruling with regard to President Clinton's executive privilege claim and that the court had denied the claim. The day after the leaks, Mr. Starr told reporters in front of his home that he believed the opinion was a ``magnificent ruling.'' This comment not only confirmed for the press that the court had indeed made a decision but also revealed that the substance of that decision was favorable to the O.I.C.."

8/8/98 Freeper BobS on Drudge with Rangel and Traficant: "Traficant warns that Clinton's perjury will be a serious issue for Democrats, and there will be vote to impeach if he lies to the Federal Grand Jury. "

ABC 8/7/98 Josh Gerstein ".Several lawyers interviewed by ABCNEWS said the president could face bar sanctions in connection with his alleged actions in the Lewinsky case, even if Independent Counsel Ken Starr never brings formal charges against him. The most likely venue for such discipline would be Arkansas, where Clinton was admitted to practice law in 1973, after he graduated from Yale Law School. Court records show he remains an active, licensed attorney in the state. .."

8/8/98 Philadelphia Enquirer Colbert King "I know the chorus by heart: "It's not about sex, lies or the obstruction of justice. It's all about an out-of-control, right-wing independent counsel who has spent $40 million over four years in a mad search for incriminating evidence to end a Democratic president's glory days in the White House." Excuse me, but I'm hearing a different tune. Since the news broke in January about allegations of an affair between the President and a young White House intern, this sorry tale has been about sex and . . . character. It remains to be seen whether anything in Bill Clinton's rumored extramarital life rises -- or sinks -- to the level of felonious behavior or an impeachable offense. And it may well be that Clinton's faithfulness to his wife is between them and has no bearing on the job he's doing. But as sure as this is another sticky summer in Washington, the starting point for the legal wrangling between President Clinton's lawyers and independent counsel Kenneth Starr over executive privilege, Secret Service testimony and attorney-client privilege was sex. And that's what has so many Clinton supporters privately gritting their teeth. .I hope Clinton is telling the truth. The alternative is too pathetic to contemplate. It would mean that the President -- who, like other high-profile public figures, is a magnet for groupies -- did not have the strength of character or the sense of obligation to his high office (let alone the respect for his family) to resist the temptation to exploit his power advantage and get it on with an obsessed, star-struck, infatuated young woman who was hoping to leech onto her political idol.."

8/8/98 Bonnie Erbe Chicago Sun Times "We are about to witness one of those political axis turns that comes perhaps once in a lifetime. We are about to watch the Democratic Party lose its stranglehold on the black vote. In the long run, the change will be good for both parties and will help take the sting out of the race issue in party politics. Well, we are about to experience a similar turnabout on black voter party allegiances. It was not so long ago that then-Gov. Strom Thurmond stormed out of the 1948 Democratic Party convention over a racial dispute and joined the Republicans, then the party of segregation. but in the 1980s, the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater recognized the importance of the minority vote and coined the "big tent" description of the Republican Party. Ronald Reagan's party offered blacks little by way of public policy. But Asians and Hispanics joined up like purchasers of snow cones on an August day. In the early '90s, with the large-scale emergence of the black middle class, more blacks placed tax reform on the top of their agenda and welfare reform at the bottom."

8/8/98 AP Walter Mears "Al Gore is only a bystander as President Clinton tries to cope with the case of the White House intern. But the vice president is said to be a core figure in the investigation of questions about Democratic fund-raising practices - and that could haunt him as he runs for a promotion in 2000. Despite the Monica Lewinsky sex and cover-up investigation, Clinton is holding high in job-approval ratings. That is to Gore's advantage, since popular presidents almost invariably boost the prospects of their preferred successors. Let the president's standing sink, and it could turn that asset into an undertow. ."

Freeper Wade the News Consultant report 8/9/98 on This Week with Sam and Cokie ".Dee Eden Myers: (former WH press sec, describing mood between Bill and Hillary. ) " I believe they are communicating through their lawyer, David Kendal. Not speaking to each other, but through Kendal." Of course, she has spousal and L/C privilege, so there is no "legal" need for this. .Donaldson: "This is not going to go away just with a mea culpa. This is serious and congress will treat it as such.".Finally, the BIGGIE (Somebody) "DOJ/FBI deep into previously undisclosed/unreported very serious campaign financing vio. More to come,."

Freeper A Whitewater Researcher 8/9/98 "Woodward and Bernstein lamented Clinton's plight on Meet the Press this morning and hastened to plead that what Nixon did was worse. W&B's advocacy of and apology for Clinton were totally to be expected from the two highly biased, prejudiced "journalists". Woodward said it would be "rational" for Judge Starr to drop his entire Clinton investigation! However, I completely agree with Ann Coulter who said on Drudge's TV program yesterday that what Clinton has done is much more criminal than what Nixon did. Coulter said that Clinton's crimes come from the top down, and that "Nixon didn't wear the latex gloves during the Watergate burglary". I also agree with former Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, who has said that the single Clinton crime of Filegate is far worse than anything Nixon ever did.Surprisingly, even W&B agreed with Russert when the latter said that an investigation into alleged "leaks" by OIC Starr is laughable, given the denials of OIC Starr involvement by the many journalists covering the Clinton scandals and the vast leaking activities of the Clinton White House. "

Reuters 8/9/98 "Former Sen. Bob Packwood says that after he was forced from office by sexual harassment accusations, President Clinton called to cheer him up. And Packwood does not believe Monica Lewinsky had sexual relations with the president, The New Yorker reports in its Aug. 17 issue. The Oregon Republican resigned in October 1995 amid allegations he made unwanted sexual advances to 17 female employees and colleagues, solicited jobs from lobbyists for his former wife and altered his personal diaries to obstruct an ethics investigation."

8/9/98 Tim Russert Show - Freeper Report "When asked about Starr's forthcoming report, Hume expects Starr will seek public release of the report, or a summary thereof, from the court. Hume noted Republicans are hiding under their desks, and a strong change in public opinion would be necessary to give them the courage to act. The American people need to be informed to support impeachment by the House. ."

8/10/98 Washington Weekly Marvin Lee ".Speaking of FBI files, GOP political consultant Ed Rollins last week on Larry King Live revealed that he thought an article once written by Sidney Blumenthal on Rollins was based on his FBI file. Rollins said he couldn't prove it, but the implication is interesting. Blumenthal's colleagues frequently accused Blumenthal of writing for the White House. They were vindicated when he gave up writing and actually joined the White House. If the White House used Blumenthal to air dirt collected from FBI files, that would be a prima facie violation of the Privacy Act. No sooner had Blumenthal joined the White House before he sued Clinton critic Matt Drudge, with the knowledge and consent of the President. Blumenthal's lawyer in that endeavor is one William McDaniels, who has an interesting history. He represented two figures of the Iran-Contra affair, Duane Clarridge and Thomas Clines. Both were CIA officials active in the clandestine Nicaraguan Contra resupply effort where Barry Seal also worked. When Seal faced drug charges in Florida he was, in turn, represented by one Richard Ben-Veniste. Ben-Veniste is now acting occasionally as a defense lawyer for Bill Clinton."

Capitol Hill Blue Daniel Harris 8/9/98 "The White House refused comment Sunday on speculation by ex-White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers that the President and First Lady are only communicating with each other through attorney Bruce Lindsey when the topic is Monica Lewinsky..Other White House sources, however, say the relationship between the Clinton appears to have cooled in recent days. The smiles, they say, seem more forced. Part of the tension, many feel, is directly related to the President's upcoming grand jury testimony."

8/9/98 CNN John King "Linda Tripp gave Independent Counsel Ken Starr a notebook she says chronicles dozens of conversations with Monica Lewinsky that detail the former White House intern's alleged relationship with President Clinton, an attorney involved in the case told CNN Saturday. The attorney, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, described the notebook as "a chronicle of Monica's complaints" about the president."

Dana Milbank US News Online 8/17/98 "I was meeting with a top Clinton aide in the West Wing, as it happens, when Bimbroglio erupted anew on Monday afternoon. The news was just coming in on CNN (that's how White House advisers, shut out by Clinton's lawyers, get their scandal news these days), and so I was afforded a glimpse of spin central before Clinton's defenders had rehearsed their lines. We had been talking about such matters as Clinton's subpoena from Starr when an assistant poked his head in to say that Clinton friend Bruce Lindsey had lost his claim of lawyer-client privilege, an unexpected setback for the White House. The aide, his guard down, seemed stunned, incredulously demanding more information--but he quickly recovered. "I'm not worried about any of this," he said reassuringly. An hour later, as I was leaving, the assistant delivered yet more bad news: "Have you heard? Monica's talking to the prosecutors." The aide, in a remarkable display of discipline, retained his studied calm this time. ."

Vicky Stamas Reuters 8/9/98 "The head of a leading women's activist group urged President Clinton Sunday to address the nation about the White House sex-and-perjury scandal, as a new poll showed support for Clinton wavering among women. "I think he must not only testify truthfully ... but I also think that the people in this country want to hear him and want to be able to look at him and judge for themselves," Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women, told "Fox News Sunday."."

LA Times 8/11/98 Ronald Brownstien and Marc Lacey "As the clock ticks down toward President Clinton's historic testimony to a federal grand jury next Monday, a growing number of Democratic strategists and officeholders are calling on him to make a dramatic gesture to defuse the controversy -- even if that means publicly acknowledging mistakes in his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky. Their restiveness reflects concern that the scandal could blot out any other Democratic message and thus endanger the party's prospects in the November elections."

Reuters 8/11/98 "A booming U.S. economy has buoyed President Bill Clinton's approval ratings despite the Monica Lewinsky scandal but some experts say his fortunes may change as growth slows and stock prices tumble.``We are beginning in some major indicators to see the economy slowing at the same time as the stock market is taking a hit,'' Zogby said. ``If that continues, people could start to get jittery. Even though they may not care about the scandal, they may be concerned that what it will do is preoccupy a president who has to be clear-headed to deal with the economy.'' "

Washington Post 8/12/98 Ruth Marcus "When the allegations involving her husband and Monica S. Lewinsky first arose seven months ago, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton attributed the investigation to a ``vast right-wing conspiracy.'' Now, she is blaming her husband's legal difficulties on anti-Arkansas bias as well. ``I think a lot of this is prejudice against our state,'' the First Lady said in a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published Tuesday. ``They wouldn't be doing this if we were from some other state.'' ."

Houston Chronicle 8/12/98 Laura Ingraham "PRESIDENT Clinton has an uncanny ability to compartmentalize, to stay on message. This is something we are hearing a lot these days -- from reporters and supporters of the president.Given his personal value system, Clinton's impervious, upbeat exterior is not a virtue. It is a sad hoax. It smacks of the sort of deep denial usually associated with alcoholics or chronic gamblers -- the old "I don't have a problem" mentality. Yet the president's "business-as-usual" approach during the past six months portends something much more distressing than a mere psychological infirmity. It means that he has convinced himself that it doesn't matter what most Americans think about his character. Today most people believe he's a liar, a cheater, a guy who takes advantage of a star-struck young woman, then sends out his wife (on whom he cheated) to beat up his detractors for him. They hear him demand truth and integrity from tobacco and insurance companies but then see him hide behind his lawyers and claims of privilege when questions are asked about his own integrity.."

Drudge 8/11/98 "WASH POST: "The report is expected to lay out evidence against the president and the procedures used to gather it, along with voluminous supporting material such as grand jury transcripts, physical and documentary evidence, and the secret tape recordings made by Linda R. Tripp of her conversations with Lewinsky...".

Washington Post 8/12/98 Susan Schmidt and Peter Baker "Two Secret Service officers have offered differing accounts of a purported visit to President Clinton's office by Monica S. Lewinsky, prompting independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr to ask for information from Justice Department lawyers who interviewed the two men, lawyers close to the case said.. Muskett has said the president was in the study and that he observed Lewinsky leaving the room. But Byrne has said Muskett gave him a different account of that incident, telling Byrne that he came upon Clinton and Lewinsky in an intimate situation, the sources said. .."

New York Times 8/13/98 David Rosenbaum " The first article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon that the House Judiciary Committee approved 24 summers ago charged Nixon with obstruction of justice. Among the dozens of actions the committee placed in that category were Nixon's instructions to the CIA to block an FBI investigation, his approval of hush-money payments to the Watergate burglars, and his obtaining information from a federal prosecutor in order to pass it along to aides who were under investigation. he inquiry into President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky is in a different realm. But the prevailing view in political circles is that the most serious accusations against the president involve obstruction of justice and that these are the matters Congress is most likely to focus on if it begins consideration of impeachment."

8/12/98 Salt Lake Tribune Rich Hood - Kansas City Star "Forget about Monica Lewinsky. There is another woman in Washington who knows far more incriminating information about President Clinton than the star-struck vixen, or victim, from California. The other woman is Janet Reno, the attorney general of the United States, and thus far she's not talking. Reno, who apparently covets her plush office far more than recognition for rectitude, has managed to stifle a needed investigation into how far the president, Vice President Al Gore and top members of the Democratic National Committee stretched the law in collecting campaign contributions for Clinton-Gore in 1996."

.AP Karen Gullo 8/12/98 "Trying to halt a judge's investigation into whether he leaked grand jury evidence to the news media, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr suggested that his contacts with reporters be treated the same as those with confidential informers. Starr argued that he could not disclose evidence of his office's contacts with reporters ``without revealing confidential investigative information,'' court documents now made public show. To bolster the argument, the prosecutor cited a 1981 court case that established an ``informers privilege'' that allows the government to keep secret the identity of a person who furnished information about criminal activities to protect them from possible retribution."

MSNBC 8/12/98 "Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has decided to send Congress a report on his investigation, and has already drafted hundreds of pages that focus on the allegations around Monica Lewinsky, NBC News has learned.STARR won't finish the report until after President Bill Clinton testifies Monday, and while it could be sent to Congress by Labor Day, mid-September is more likely, NBC correspondent Lisa Myers reported. Starr's team believes it has compiled a list of possibly impeachable offenses, Myers said. The team has made a tentative decision to focus on the Lewinsky investigation and limit the report to the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, which led to the allegations that Clinton and Lewinsky had a sexual affair."

NY Times 8/13/98 Don Van Natta Jr. "President Clinton's new legal defense fund has raised in excess of $2 million in just six months, enriched by a new campaign that largely blamed Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for the first couple's financial plight, according to several supporters briefed in recent days on the fund's progress."

CAS Mailing List Carl Limbacher "Former prosecutor turned cableTV legal maven Cynthia Alksne has a theory which is said to be the talk of Washington. She hypotheisizes that President Clinton, even if Monica Lewinsky did in fact give him oral sex, didn't commit perjury when he denied it in his Paula Jones deposition. How so? Because, says Alksne, presiding judge Susan Webber Wright limited the definition of sex during the questioning, inadvertently narrowing the meaning in a way that may give Clinton an out.."

8/13/98 Roll Call Online Ben Jones by Raymond Smock "Dear Mr. President, You know me and I know you, so let's cut to the chase. I am not one of those sanctimonious virtuecrats out hustling a book or a television ministry. I'm just a citizen who cares deeply about our country. Many of us in the Democratic party feel that the advice you have been getting at the White House has managed to put you between a rock and a hard place. Since I am a progressive Southern Democrat like you, I thought you might be interested in my two-cents worth.. It appears to me that your choices are very simple: First of all, if you are innocent of these accusations, there is simply not a thing to worry about. As soon as you are cleared, people like me, who believe that you have committed adultery, perjury and obstruction of justice, will owe you a serious, honest and very public apology. I will be the first in line. Your exoneration will be cause for celebration. That won't explain why you have stonewalled this revelation of innocence for six months, but I'm sure there must be some good reason. If, on the other hand, our suspicions are correct and you are guilty of this illegal behavior, then you must take a bold, decisive and honorable action. You must resign..Well, that's my advice. Do the honorable thing. Step down. The nation will be grateful. And you will be well regarded in the future. Mr. President, I have bad news for you. The last dog has died. Yours truly, Ben Jones Former Rep. Ben Jones (D-Ga) served in the House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993"

Fox News 8/13/98 O'Reilly report from Freeper DebMcB "Last night on the O'Reilly report was one of the most starteluing and humourous moments I have seen during this scandal. Rep. John Conyers, an known Clinton supporter, was introduced by host John O'Rielly as "A defender of the Presidnet" and Conyers sputtered and quicky replied, "I am not defending the President." "I am on the judiciary committee and receiving" the report, he continued. He said there was no way he was going to defend this President in this matter. FOX is fast becoming the primier channel and those of you with cable should demand it from your carrier."

Fox News 8/12/98 Hannity and Colmes report from Freeper tellw "Ex-Dem Rep. Ben Jones (GA): "I don't know why more people aren't outraged about this whole thing. Maybe it's just that we live in a soap-opera culture and people see this as just big-celebrity entertainment or something. But the future of this country is at stake and the credibility of the president of the United States is foremost in that future and I think this president has failed us. ... He's carried this lie through six months, it has diminished the institution of the presidency and it has weakened our country and that is why I think he should avoid an impeachment proceeding and do the honorable thing and resign"

8/13/98 Drudge Report "Days after this space first reported the Monica Lewinsky story last January, CNBC's Geraldo Rivera called the President of the United States a "pig" on his national TV show. RIVERA LIVE January 23, 1998, Friday Geraldo: "If this is true, getting oral sex from a 21-year-old, then he's a pig. He may be a good president, but he's also a pig..." During the next six months, Rivera would experience a shift in opinion of the president. During Rivera's media journey on the Lewinsky case -- he would switch from calling the president a 'pig' to declaring love of the man. RIVERA LIVE August 6, 1998, Thursday "

Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg VA William Davis 8/13/98 "It is likely that we will very soon have conclusive proof, or at least overwhelming evidence, that the President has lied under oath. At this point there will be no reasonable alternative but to remove him from office. It seems surreal that it should be necessary to explain why a known felon cannot be allowed to hold high office, but apparently it is. It seems that a lot of people are prepared to overlook perjury, on the grounds that it was "only" about sex in a civil case. This has it exactly backwards. These lies should give us pause precisely because they were about an essentially minor matter. If the President will commit felonies merely to cover up embarrassing facts, how can we possibly imagine that he would tell the truth about more weighty matters when he is not under oath? .

8/14/98 AP John Solomon "President Clinton's advisers are moving toward a strategy in which he would tell the grand jury he had a personal relationship with Monica Lewinsky and insist he did not commit perjury, then give a televised address to the nation afterwards, sources familiar with the preparations said today.."

8/14/98 Slate William Saletan "President Clinton's stonewall collapsed with this morning's New York Times headline: "President Weighs Admitting He Had Sexual Contacts.". But this is the first time anyone has reported that Clinton himself has discussed a confession. The difference is huge..Either you've got something to confess or you don't.. "Clinton has not settled on this [confession] approach," says the Times. "The advisers cautioned ... that the strategy could still change as the President continued to examine the legal and political implications of various courses." No, it can't. The irony of the past two weeks is that from the moment Clinton agreed to testify, the only way to keep his options open was to keep the confession option publicly closed. Now that it's publicly open, all other options are closed.."

Silicon Valley Logic 8/15/98 "Several sources close to the Paula Jones case stated Friday that the definition of sexual relations handed to Bill Clinton before his deposition clearly included "either-way oral sex" and most all other types of non-traditional sexual gratification. The sources indicated that it was "nearly impossible", "ludicrous", "just plain silly", and "legally untenable" for Clinton to claim that he was not aware that he was perjuring himself, if indeed there was any manner of oral sex between himself and Ms. Lewinsky. More importantly, the sources agreed that the tight focus of the Clinton camp on parsing legal definitions of sex is intended to distract focus from the other thirty or more potential perjuries in the President's deposition, as well as from evidence implicating Clinton in obstruction of justice. .."

FoxNews/Reuters 8/15/98 ".U.S. television networks are gearing up for Monday's scheduled grand jury testimony by President Clinton with the kind of zeal that one White House correspondent called "Gulf War mode.'' The networks have recalled star anchors from vacation, lined up the pundits and scheduled special prime- time programming, all to cover a story likely to yield just one snippet of new video tape: that of independent counsel Kenneth Starr entering the White House."

The Oklahoman Editorial 8/16/98 "IS it proper for a great nation to be preoccupied with the "private" sex life of its president? Ted Koppel, host of ABC-TV's "Nightline," asked the question in a different way when he delivered the commencement address at Stanford University: "Is even the president of the United States entitled to a private life?" He answered: "If the president has athlete's foot, he's entitled to keep that private. If he has a heart condition, he's not. The standard is whether or not it will have an impact on the rest of the country." Koppel addressed that impact. He said, in which a"When people in large numbers, consistently reward bad behavior, then, inevitably, we perpetuate that sort of behavior. ... By our failure to judge or act decisively on moral issues as individuals, we contribute to a collective caricature of tolerance; a universal lack of discrimination ... lmost everything is reduced to a form of entertainment ... "."

Chicago Sun-Times Robert Novak 8/16/98 "Advice to the House Democratic Caucus from Minority Leader Richard Gephardt not to ``engage in hypotheticals'' about President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in advance of his grand jury testimony was quickly disregarded by a notorious party renegade: Rep. James Traficant of Ohio. On the Fox News Channel Aug. 8, Traficant not only speculated about Clinton's fate but did it in doggerel: ``If it's on the dress, he must confess. If that dress don't fit, they must acquit.'' He went on to warn ``I will vote to impeach him'' if Clinton perjures himself before the grand jury. ."

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