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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (57576)	7/29/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

A dangerous game? With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Wednesday July 28, 11:31 AM White House Changes Tactics on Clinton Rape Accusation In an unusual move that puts the ugliest charge against President Clinton back on the front burner, Clinton's personal lawyer David Kendall has attacked Juanita Broaddrick's detailed charge that the President raped her as a "partisan rant." The White House attack on Broaddrick came in a legal brief filed in federal court on July 12 in response to a lawsuit brought against Clinton by the Washington-based public interest law firm Judicial Watch. The suit was brought on behalf of former Clinton mistress Dolly Kyle Browning. Ms. Browning, now a Dallas attorney, alleges an on-and-off thirty-year intimate relationship with the President. The Clinton lawyer's attempt to demean Broaddrick's rape charge suggests an abrupt change of course in White House strategy. Previously Kendall had issued only a brief, one-sentence statement on the President's behalf denying he raped Broaddrick, in the apparent belief that the less said about the matter, the better. But Kendall's decision to attack Broaddrick's charge as partisan in response to the Judicial Watch lawsuit could signal new White House fears that other women with similar charges may be ready to go public. Ms. Browning's lawsuit, filed under the RICO statute, alleges that President Clinton and top White House damage controller Bruce Lindsey engaged in a pattern of threatening women to keep them from going public about their sexual encounters with Clinton. Judicial Watch is seeking the testimony of nine women linked to Clinton to bolster Browning's case. Rick and Beverly Lambert, the Texas private investigators who interviewed Mrs. Broaddrick for Paula Jones' attorneys in Nov. 1997, told NewsMax.com in March that they uncovered a pattern of Clinton assaults. "I can promise you," said Beverly Lambert. "that if someone calls us to gather information on Clinton's pattern of forceful sexual behavior, we have that." The mainstream press has been extraordinarily deferential to Clinton himself, asking him about Broaddrick's allegation only twice. Both times Clinton referred to Kendall's terse denial and refused to say more. On Feb. 19, the Wall Street Journal broke the mainstream media blockade on Broaddrick's rape charge, reporting her account of Clinton, while Arkansas state attorney general, pouncing on her in a Little Rock hotel room. The attack was particularly gruesome, with Clinton biting her on the lips untill she submitted to sex, she said. Experts say that lip biting is a common M.O. used by rapists to weaken their victims' resistance. At least two other women have described Clinton as a biter during sex. Former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen was bitten during a session of "rough sex" with then-Gov. Clinton in 1982, according to Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff. A young Little Rock attorney requesting anonymity told Clinton biographer Roger Morris that Clinton bit her during a sexual attack the same year Broaddrick says she was assaulted. Gennifer Flowers, Sally Perdue, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Kathleen Willey and other women linked to Clinton have describe subsequent attempts to silence them with threats of physical violence, residential break-ins and other forms of intimidation. Juanita Broaddrick told Inside Cover in May that her home was burglarized and an answering machine tape taken after reporters and impeachment investigators began contacting her about her allegation. Browning has alleged that Bruce Lindsey threatened to "destroy" her if she went public with an account of her Clinton affair. Lindsey used her own brother to deliver the message, she says. According to a Judicial Watch press release on Wednesday, Dolly Kyle Browning "intends to hold [President Clinton] and his agents accountable for the actions they took against her and other women. JLA