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

To: rvgent who wrote (57749)	7/31/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<The republican county prosecutor Marna M. seems to be quite convinced of her guilt. >> Get your facts straight, Stephen Montanarelli, a democrat, is leading this campaign of partisan vengeance. From newsday.com the AP source- State Prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, who led the grand jury investigation, said simply, ''I think she broke the law.'' He waved off suggestions that the case would be viewed as politically motivated. ''I can't help how it will be seen. ... I think we've done our duty,'' he said. Montanarelli, a Democrat appointed to his post in 1984, said he would handle the case himself.

To: rvgent who wrote (57749)	7/31/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

TRIPP TEAM: DID HILLARY GET HEADS UP ON INDICTMENTS? Did First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton get an early "heads-up" on pending indictments against Linda Tripp from a good friend and confidante, Maryland's Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend? Did Kennedy Townsend play any role in the double-count indictment filed against Tripp on Friday -- an indictment that could land Tripp in jail for up to 10 years for secretly taping Monica Lewinsky? "One of the first questions we'll have is, 'Was Mrs. Townsend in anyway involved in this?'" one Tripp legal source told the DRUDGE REPORT late on Friday. "And did she, at any time, give the White House a heads-up on the status of the case against Linda?" The legal source, who asked not to be identified, noted that Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend traveled with the Clintons aboard Air Force One last week to attend her cousin's funeral. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton sat next to Kennedy Townsend during the service. "First we are going to establish, through the discovery process, whether these charges have been brought for pure political reasons," the source explained. "And the first lady has always said publicly how close she is to the lieutenant governor... [these] questions really need to be explored. "Is this just some twisted revenge on Linda by a spouse with high political connections in the state?" The Tripp camp may have an uphill battle proving any Kennedy Townsend/White House connection. During a press conference on Friday, Howard County State's Attorney Marna McLendon strongly denied any political motive either on her part or that of state prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli, who investigated the case and will prosecute it. McLendon is a Republican and Montanarelli a Democrat. But Tripp lawyers are determined to fight. "What occurred here today," said Tripp attorney Stephen Kohn, "was that a person who was one of the most important federal witnesses in American history, one of the most important whistleblowers in American history, is facing 10 years in prison, $20,000 in fines, to be branded as a felon and, yes, to be destroyed." Developing... Miss know it all's plan will backfire. The only hate-monger mentioned in your post is Clinton, who likes to go into minority denominated churches on election days and tell some big ol juicy lies about how the republicans are out to get them. Follow up on Byrd, I guess Clinton used her FBI files on him, and said Byrd if you vote for impeachment I will tell the world you were in the KKK. Guess the ol' boy just didn't have the heart for personal sacrifice for the good of the country. IMO of course.

To: rvgent who wrote (57749)	8/2/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

Wrong again oh ye of the very small brain. Tripp will be acquitted. Federal law trumps Maryland law and there is no violation under the federal statute. No worry. No discussion. JLA

To: rvgent who wrote (57749)	8/2/1999 5:04:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 67261

rvgrunt: newsmax.com Tripp Indictment Could Backfire: Legal Experts The indictment of Sexgate taper Linda Tripp could backfire on the White House should the case go to trial, legal experts tell Inside Cover. And a source close to Tripp agrees. "This indictment cuts both ways, you know. Both sides have the right to discovery," said Landmark Legal Foundation's Mark Levin just hours before Maryland prosecutor Stephen Montanarelli announced that Tripp would be charged under the state's wiretapping statute. Levin's comments came just a day after Landmark Legal scored a major victory with Paula Jones Judge Susan Webber Wright. Wright fined President Clinton $90,000 on Thursday based on a motion initiated last September by the Washington-based public interest law firm. Levin noted that the witness list could include Monica Lewinsky as well as other Jane Does unearthed in the Paula Jones suit. Tripp has said she taped Lewinsky to protect herself, alleging that longtime Clinton damage controller Bruce Lindsey threatened to "destroy" her if she didn't lie for the president. She also claims that Lewinsky passed on veiled threats of physical danger to her and her children. Tripp has said she believes those threats originated in the Oval Office. Witnesses with stories bolstering Tripp's account could be drawn from a list of women who claim they have been pressured to stay silent about their relationships with Clinton. That list would include Gennifer Flowers, Sally Perdue, Kathleen Willey, Dolly Kyle Browning, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Cristy Zercher and perhaps even Juanita Broaddrick, who told Inside Cover exclusively in May that her house was broken into and a telephone answering machine tape stolen as she was considering going public with her rape charge against Clinton. Browning, who alleges a thirty-year affair with the President, has fingered Lindsey as the author of a threat to "destroy" her. Zercher, who gave the press an account of her sexual harassment by Clinton last April, has told reporters that Lindsey warned her not to discuss Clinton's behavior with the press. Flowers, Perdue, Willey and Gracen have described an array of harassing phone calls, residential break-ins, IRS audits and even death threats that they charge were part of a White House campaign to scare them into silence. Prosecutor Montanarelli may also find himself in legal hot water - if Florida attorney Jack Thompson is called to testify. The longtime Clinton critic tells Inside Cover that the state D.A. supressed "exculpatory evidence which could have and would have thwarted a Tripp indictment." Thompson says Montanarelli refused to call him before the grand jury, where he would have detailed an alleged White House conspiracy to intimidate witnesses like Tripp and other Clinton women, with Bruce Lindsey at its center. Thompson says that he expects to be called at a Tripp trial, adding, "I can't wait." A Tripp trial could also mean a subpoena for the White House, according to Landmark's Levin, who reminded Inside Cover, "There is no constitutional impediment to the president being a witness in a trial, as we saw in Whitewater." Clinton testified in April 1996 as a character witness on behalf of his former Whitewater business partners, Jim and Susan McDougal. Both McDougals were later convicted on a combined total of more than thirty criminal counts. Lucianne Goldberg, the New York literary agent who advised Tripp to protect herself by recording Lewinsky, also warned that the Tripp trial witness list could spell trouble for Clinton. In a Friday interview with WABC radio's Sean Hannity, Goldberg said, "Linda's new lawyer is a real streetfighter and they will call everybody under the sun but Clinton's dog Buddy and Socks the cat." On Friday Tripp spokesman Phillip Couter announced the addition of Stephen Kohn to her legal team. Kohn, who specializes in whistleblower cases, has already announced plans to explore a lawsuit against Clinton-connected officials in Maryland. And how does Independent Counsel Ken Starr feel about all this? His office has been silent since the Tripp indictment was announced. But former Paula Jones attorney Gil Davis told Fox News Channel's Kathy Wolf on Saturday that the Tripp indictment stretched the boundaries of legal discretion, and could prompt Starr to reconsider indicting the president himself.