Well, Frank, first of all, if you will please note I put ALLLEGED in capital letters in my post, because of course there is a presumption of innocence, although it is getting more and more difficult to believe that absolutely none of this is true after reading all the new stories out today.
As far as the White House leaking the information about Betty Currie, an attorney on Nightline last night also raised the possibility. It definitely would not be the first time. There is a strategy which entails getting the bad news which is going to come out anyway disseminated in little bits, rather than all at the same time.
I think the president may have been stupid enough to get lots of one-sided sex in the White House, and assume that he could get away with it. Who could have imagined that Linda Tripp had tapes? Newsweek this week is reporting that the president seemed stunned at his deposition when questions about Monica Lewinsky started being asked. He and his attorneys thought they had handled that situation, and waved her affidavit at the judge, who overruled them and allowed the questions to continue. His replies were 'lawyerly' and 'squishy' according to Newsweek, but he definitely said he did not meet alone with her after Christmas, and we know that she was at the White House on December 28.
Now can you tell me why the president and Vernon Jordan would have gone to the trouble to get an affidavit from Monica denying everything, and a job at Revlon in New York, if there was nothing at all there? |
