TB:
Hopped onto the Internet to get the latest on this breaking story. Checked CNN and lo an behold, found the following:
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Report: Starr assistant told court Hillary indictable
WASHINGTON - A Whitewater prosecutor told an appeals court that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton could be indicted, ABC News reported Saturday.
In the past, Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr has stopped short of saying that he had evidence sufficient to indict the first lady. But during a closed-door session in a federal appeals court in St. Louis, a Starr deputy said an indictment was possible, according to an audio tape of the purported discussion obtained by ABC News.
"We certainly are investigating individuals, and those individuals - including Mrs. Clinton - could be indicted," Deputy Independent Counsel John Bates told the court.
Mrs. Clinton's attorney, David Kendall, said Saturday he could not comment on the contents of a sealed transcript. But he said:
"To say Mrs. Clinton is the subject of investigation is obvious, but to imply there is any real basis for it is ridiculous."
ABC did not say how it obtained the tape recording, a portion of which it played in its Saturday evening newscast. Any kind of recording except by court stenographers is barred in all federal courts.
The network said Bates made the comment while in court to obtain notes involving Mrs. Clinton's Whitewater conversations with government lawyers.
Overruling Mrs. Clinton's claim that the conversations are protected by attorney-client privilege, the U.S. Court of Appeals for,the 8th Circuit in St. Louis ruled that the notes must be turned over to a federal grand jury.
The White House has appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court.
The notes in question involve Mrs. Clinton's conversations with White House lawyers concerning her actions after the death of Vincent Foster, former deputy White House counsel, and the mysterious reappearance of her law firm billing records - two key focuses of the Whitewater investigation.
By The Associated Press
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I suspect that the liberal mainstream media will attempt to deflect attention away from the Klintons by indicting the special prosecutors staff for allowing this news to "escape". It does seem odd that this story was obtained by ABC before a formal indictment was served.
I wonder how Natasha Hillary will look in prison stripes? Horizontal lines are not very flattering (unlike vertical lines), because they can make a person look "wider" than normal.
The thought of Hillary Klinton looking even "wider" in physical appearance than her current profile is truely a scary thought.
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