I don't think that the regular press has commented on the expansion of Starr's probe to include 'Intimidation of Witnesses' as he stated in his press appearance yesterday. I wonder how the feminists will react to this new angle. Apparently Starr thinks that some of the witnesses in Paula Jones case may have also perjured themselves out of fear of reprisal. I hope all those Right Wing Extremists who have been suspicious of this administration for just such activity are given some sort of apology for being called 'paranoid' or 'delusional'. Maybe they've been right all along. I doubt all those people living next to de Nile will admit their error in judgement, however.
The Wall Street Journal
February 6, 1998 Phil Kuntz
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Prosecutor Starr Demands
Data on Women in Jones Case
By PHIL KUNTZ
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- Significantly expanding his investigation of whether
President Clinton obstructed justice in the Paula Jones case, Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr demanded Ms. Jones' lawyers turn over documents
on numerous women they sought to question about whether they had sexual
encounters with the president.
Meanwhile, President Clinton reiterated his denials of wrongdoing.
And in Little Rock, Ark., Mr. Starr told reporters that his inquiry was
"moving very quickly" and making "significant progress." Mr. Starr called the
allegations involving the Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit -- obstruction,
witness intimidation and subornation of perjury -- "very serious" and "an
extraordinary set of circumstances."
Ms. Jones' Dallas-based lawyer, Donovan Campbell Jr., said his office
received a subpoena Thursday morning from Mr. Starr's office for copies of
all depositions, deposition notices, affidavits and any other sworn filings or
pleadings on former White House aide Kathleen Willey and any other "Jane
Doe" that the Jones lawyers attempted to depose in the case. The
anonymous moniker has been used in legal filings in the case by lawyers
representing about a half-dozen women who have sworn that they didn't
have sexual relationships with the president.
The subpoena suggests that Mr. Starr's examination of obstruction in the
Jones case is reaching far beyond Monica Lewinsky, who attempted to
avoid being deposed by swearing in an affidavit that she hadn't had a sexual
relationship with the president. Mr. Starr launched his investigation after a
friend of Ms. Lewinsky tape-recorded her claiming that she had engaged in
sex acts with the president and that Mr. Clinton and his lobbyist-friend
Vernon Jordan were involved in a plan to have her lie about it. |
