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Starr Gets Lewinsky's Credit Record
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whitewater prosecutors have obtained the credit
records of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and four other people
in the investigation, an attorney for a credit reporting agency said Monday.
Turned over under subpoena to a federal grand jury in the Lewinsky probe,
the records are those of Ms. Lewinsky, her mother Marcia Lewis, former
White House volunteer Kathleen Willey, Maryland developer Nathan Landow
and a former friend of Willey, Julie Steele.
Oscar Marquis, general counsel for Trans Union Corp., confirmed the credit
reporting service's cooperation with the investigation. The Legal Times first
reported the surrendering of the credit records.
Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr has been investigating whether Clinton
had a sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky and then urged her to lie about it.
Clinton has denied the allegations.
Starr also is investigating whether Landow tried to influence Mrs. Willey's
testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case against the president,
something Landow denies. Mrs. Willey has accused Clinton of making an
unwanted sexual advance inside the White House, which the president denies.
Ms. Steele contends Mrs. Willey asked her to lie to a reporter about the
alleged overture.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the Clinton administration's claim of
privilege in the Whitewater investigation is on far weaker legal ground than
President Nixon was when he was forced to surrender the tapes in the
Watergate scandal.
"Richard Nixon lost this argument in court and he didn't go anywhere near as
far as President Clinton suggested," Gingrich told the Atlanta Rotary Club. "It
violates every principle. It is dangerous, not just shameful."
In Watergate, the Supreme Court rejected Nixon's argument that executive
privilege protected tape-recordings of Oval Office conversations with his
aides.
Whitewater prosecutors want to question Secret Service officers protecting the
president about Clinton's relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.
But officials from the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service,
and the Justice Department argue that unless agents can be barred from
testifying, future presidents will not allow them close enough to provide
effective protection. Treasury and Justice officials say Starr can be prohibited
from questioning the Secret Service officers without Clinton himself making a
claim of privilege.
On a separate matter, the White House refused to comment on whether Hillary
Rodham Clinton declined to answer some questions asked of her in a five-hour
videotaped deposition Saturday.
A White House spokesman referred questions to the first lady's Whitewater
lawyer, David Kendall, who did not return a phone call.
I find the comment "the White House refused to comment on whether Hillary Rodham Clinton declined to answer some questions..." I think the first four times she testified, they acknowledged she answered all the questions. Maybe there's a new privilege on the way. |
