McCurry doubts there's 'a simple, innocent explanation'
McCurry's comments, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, raised the
possibility that the White House may be preparing the public for a different,
more nuanced explanation than Clinton's so-far emphatic denials that he had
sexual relations with Lewinsky.
"Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation" in the Lewinsky matter. "I
don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already,"
McCurry told the Tribune.
"We are not in a position to provide a full and complete account, so the art is to
make sure everything we say is truthful and credible," he said. "I think it's
going to end up being a very complicated story, as most human relationships
are. And I don't think it's going to be entirely easy to explain maybe."
McCurry, pressed about his remarks during his daily briefing, said he had
erred in speculating about something he didn't know about. But he didn't
retract the comments. "I said what I said," McCurry said. "I just shouldn't have
said it."
McCurry called his comments "hypothetically derivative" and blamed it on a
"lapse in my sanity."
Asked if he was in the doghouse over his remarks, McCurry said, "Not that
they've told me, but I've put myself in my own doghouse for having answered
questions that I shouldn't have answered." |
