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ABC NEWS: LEWINSKY TO HAND OVER DRESS
AS PART OF THE IMMUNITY DEAL WITH PROSECUTORS, MONICA LEWINSKY AGREED TO TURN OVER EVIDENCE SHE
CLAIMED WOULD BACK UP HER ASSERTION OF A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESIDENT, ABC NEWS
REPORTED LATE WEDNESDAY.
LEWINSKY WILL HAND OVER A DRESS LEWINSKY SAID SHE SAVED AFTER A SEX ENCOUNTER WITH MR. CLINTON
BECAUSE IT HAD SEMEN STAINS ON IT!
THE REPORT ROCKED OFFICIAL WASHINGTON.
SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISERS PLACED URGENT CALLS TO ABC NEWS IN THE MINUTES BEFORE THE STORY
AIRED, IT HAS BEEN LEARNED.
THE DRUDGE REPORT WAS FIRST TO REVEAL LEWINSKY'S CLAIM ON JANUARY 21 IN AN EXCLUSIVE REPORT:
"INVESTIGATORS HAVE BECOME CONVINCED THAT THERE MAY BE A DNA TRAIL THAT COULD CONFIRM PRESIDENT
CLINTON'S SEXUAL INVOLVEMENT WITH LEWINSKY... TRIPP HAS SHARED WITH INVESTIGATORS A
CONVERSATION WHERE LEWINSKY ALLEGEDLY CONFIDED THAT SHE KEPT A GARMENT WITH CLINTON'S DRIED
SEMEN ON IT -- A GARMENT SHE ALLEGEDLY SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WASH."
ELSEWHERE, SEVERAL NEWS ORGANIZATION ARE PREPARING TO DESCRIBE MESSAGES LEFT ON LEWINSKY'S HOME
ANSWERING MACHINE -- VOICE MESSAGES THAT HAVE THE PRESIDENT URGING LEWINSKY TO 'STAY ON
MESSAGE.'
DEVELOPING...
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LEWINSKY TELLS STARR THAT SHE WROTE TALKING POINTS; LEWINSKY WAS HIT WITH EVIDENCE
In a development greeted ecstatically at the White House, the WASHINGTON POST is reporting in
Wednesday edition's that Monica Lewinsky has told investigators she was the author of the
controversial "talking points" urging her onetime friend, Linda Tripp, to change her story in
the Paula Jones case, not Clinton or his advisers!
Dynamic Duo Sue Schmidt and Peter Baker at the POST also report that Clinton attorney David
Kendall is now seeking to "put off Clinton's testimony to force Starr to delay any report on
potentially impeachable offenses until after the fall elections and a new Congress convenes in
January."
The NEW YORK TIMES reports in morning editions that Lewinsky is also prepared to testify that
the president told her that he planned to deny a relationship in his deposition in the Jones
suit, and if they both denied it, no one would know the truth.
The late developments closed a dramatic day in Sin City.
Monica Lewinsky agreed to cooperate with investigators after she was hit with a 'mountain of
evidence' Notably: Information that she left behind in the hard drive of her computer!
Prosecutors also are in posession of love notes Lewinsky had written to Clinton, receipts of
gifts, local phone records [that show calls made to the White House], even receipts for taxi
trips, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The amount of evidence Starr's team collected, in the end, left little room for Lewinsky to
wiggle.
Lewinsky's hard drive was filled with incriminating notes, e-mails, documents written by
Lewinsky. Lewinsky used the computer like a diary.
"She was trapped," a source close to the action in Washington explains. "She was, in effect,
busted... she left behind an evidence trail that was 10 miles long. Starr had everything."
Everything but her testimony.
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THAT PICTURE!
**World Exclusive**
Mon Jul 27 1998 22:01:53 ET -- Of all the evidence in the Monica Lewinsky case that will become
public in the coming weeks, a single photograph has haunted those who have seen it -- a
photograph that shows President Clinton staring into the eyes of White House intern Monica
Lewinsky.
Multiple sources in and out of government have now described a photograph that is in the
posession of investigators: A photograph taken in 1995 that shows President Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky alone, facing each other, looking intensely into each other's eyes, with the president
holding both of Lewinsky's hands!
Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's office is in possession of at least 75 photographs that capture
President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky together in various settings, the DRUDGE REPORT first
revealed in April.
The majority of the pictures that Starr has obtained have come directly from the White House
itself under subpoena.
"The amount of pictures of the two together, or near each other, just takes your breath away,"
a source who has flipped through the pictures in Starr's office tells the DRUDGE REPORT. "One
picture, that is in perfect focus, shows them lost in each other's eyes."
The White House refuses to publicly release photographs, letters and other documents relating
to the Monica Lewinsky mess.
The haunting picture that shows Clinton and Lewinsky holding hands, face-to-face, is clearly
circumstantial evidence -- but it is that stray photo that will become the talk of a nation
once it is made public. |
