Marine officers chauffeured Monica to White House House managers may question her on use of military transportation
MONDAY
JANUARY 25
1999
By Joseph Farah
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Monica Lewinsky may be a more helpful witness to House managers of the impeachment trial than they thought after questioning her over the weekend.
WorldNetDaily has learned that high-ranking Marine Corps officers were used to chauffeur the former intern to her "dates" with President Clinton while she worked at the Defense Department.
Two House prosecutors -- Rep. Bob Barr, R-GA, and Rep. James Rogan, R-CA -- were notified of the new information late last night. Both expressed interest in the report that military officers were assigned to the task of driving Clinton's girlfriend from her office at the Pentagon to the White House on taxpayer time and at taxpayer expense.
One unconfirmed report that an officer involved in those details later received a big promotion -- to the rank of brigadier general -- was of particular interest to the prosecutors and other members of Congress alerted to the new information by WorldNetDaily.
"This story, if confirmed, would once again elevate the seriousness of the charges facing Clinton and raise questions about the involvement of other senior Clinton administration officials," said one member of the House.
Apparently, no one -- not Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr or other investigators -- has ever asked Lewinsky how she got from the Pentagon to the White House for her visits with Clinton. The assumption had been that she drove herself. There is no evidence to suggest the Marine officers involved understood the nature of the driving assignment at the time. Later, however, when the Lewinsky controversy erupted as a matter of national controversy, resulting in the impeachment of the president, the military officers chose to remain silent.
Over the weekend, House managers said Lewinsky would be a "very helpful witness" in President Clinton's impeachment trial, but one of Lewinsky's attorneys said there was no reason for the Senate to call her.
"Monica Lewinsky was candid, forthright, and extremely truthful," said one of her lawyers, Plato Cacheris. "She added nothing to the record that is already sitting before the Senate right now."
In the Mayflower Hotel's Presidential Suite, with a replica of the presidential seal in the foyer, prosecutors grilled Lewinsky for nearly two hours yesterday hoping the session might yield new information that could be used in the trial. The decision to interview Lewinsky, who was ordered by a federal judge to respond, had stirred a sharp protest from Democratic senators.
All that was before the new information about Lewinsky's chauffeurs arose.
The impeachment trial heads into a new phase today with a growing number of senators trying to find a graceful and speedy political exit without calling witnesses, although some may be deposed. With Democrats in the Senate apparently rallying around their party leader, some said the trial could be completed as early as this week.
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