Ms. Lewinsky was confronted by F.B.I. agents and Kenneth Starr's assistant prosecutors. She immediately told them, as she testified later, that "I wasn't speaking to them without my attorney."
Her attorney was Francis D. Carter. When she was subpoenaed by Paula Jones's lawyers, she told him that she had not had "sexual relations" with President Clinton; Mr. Carter prepared, and she signed, an affidavit to that effect.
Mr. Starr's agents did everything they could, short of physical force, to keep Ms. Lewinsky from calling Frank Carter. They told her that he was a civil rather than a criminal lawyer "so he really couldn't help me." (That was a lie; Mr. Carter is a highly regarded criminal lawyer who for six years headed Washington's public defender service.) They gave her the number of another lawyer and suggested she call him.
They told her she had signed a false affidavit and could go to prison for 27 years. They offered to give her immunity if she would "cooperate" -- but said there would be no deal if Mr. Carter were called in. (A Federal regulation forbids immunity negotiations in the absence of a suspect's lawyer.) nytimes.com
Grow up yourself, JLA. Glad to see you back to your usual substantive debate technique of ad hominem ad nauseam. Lying is a terrible thing for a President to do, but when you're trying to take down the President, all's fair. Can't make anything out of Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, or all the other stuff that's regurgitated here regardless of evidence, then you got to use more extreme measures. |
