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To: TigerPaw who wrote (359240)	2/14/2003 1:57:37 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

Clinton Propositioned New 'Harassment' Victim on Election Night A woman newly revealed in court documents as someone to whom Bill Clinton "made unwanted sexual advances" once claimed she was repeatedly propositioned by then-Governor Clinton on the night he won a third term to the Arkansas state house. In 1986 Cyd Dunlop (spelled as Dunlap in court records) and her then-husband Daryl traveled from West Helena, Arkansas, to Little Rock to attend Clinton's victory party at, ironically, the Excelsior Hotel. Five years later Clinton would sexually harass another woman, Paula Jones, at that same location. After dancing with Clinton during the celebration, Dunlop and her husband retired to their room around midnight. Two hours later the phone rang. Dunlop recounted the conversation to Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff for his 1999 book, "Uncovering Clinton." "Cyd," said the hushed voice, "it's Bill." "Bill who?" she asked. "Bill, the governor," replied Clinton. "I just wanted to hear the sound of your voice again. Can you get out of your room?" Dunlop couldn't quite believe the audacity of Clinton's proposition, coming as it did as her husband slept just feet away. "No, I don't think so," she remembers telling him. "Daryl knows I wouldn't do that." Despite the firm rejection, Clinton persisted in trying to arrange a sexual tryst. "Just tell him you need to be by yourself for a while," Clinton coaxed. "I can't do that," she said. "Can you go for a jog with me in the morning? Can you meet me at the statehouse in the morning around six?" Finally Dunlop agreed, she told the reporter, just to get Clinton off the phone. But the meeting never took place. It's not clear whether Clinton's proposition was the sole basis for the claim by lawyers for Paula Jones that he made "unwanted sexual advances" (plural) toward Dunlop. The allegation was voiced by attorney James Fisher in a previously sealed transcript of a Jan. 12, 1998, hearing before Judge Susan Webber Wright. Dunlop's name was included by Jones' legal team at the end of a list of potential witnesses such as Kathleen Willey, who claimed Clinton tried to force himself on her, and Juanita Broaddrick, who accused him of raping her. Calls to Fisher's Dallas, Texas, office went unreturned on Monday. According to Isikoff's account, Dunlop did not consider the incident to be particularly harassing. "He was acting like some oversexed adolescent, carousing in the early hours of the morning, badgering the wife of one of his campaign supporters for a date," he wrote, quoting Dunlop herself as saying, "I just thought he was an idiot." However, the Newsweek writer was equally dismissive of Clinton campaign plane flight attendant Cristy Zercher's account, reporting that after he investigated her claims, he "ruled out any idea that Zercher was going to confirm a pattern of harassment similar to that of Paula Jones." Yet, when interviewed about Clinton by Star magazine's Richard Gooding, Zercher made it clear that the then-candidate forced her to submit to his groping and repeatedly invited her into the plane bathroom when his pants were plainly unzipped.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (359240)	2/14/2003 2:03:23 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Witness: Clintons, Gores Used E-Mail Aliases Former Reagan and Bush administration officials who contend their FBI files were improperly acquired by the Clinton administration. Missing White House e-mails, which could provide "smoking gun" evidence as to who was involved in the FBI file controversy, are now more tantalizing than ever to investigators, who have discovered that President Clinton, Vice President Gore and their wives had private e-mail accounts under pseudonyms. Robert Haas, a technician for Northrop-Grumman, the White House computer contractor, revealed the existence of the e-mail pseudonyms in court testimony in Washington earlier this week. "For security reasons, I won't go into any part of this until we get some sort of waiver. But there are alternative naming conventions to get mail to the four principals (the Clintons and Gores) that are not public knowledge," Haas said. Federal Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Clintons' electronic communications searched for specific terms relating to the FBI files case, the Pentagon's disclosure of the arrest record of former White House employee Linda Tripp and President Clinton's release of personal letters from a former White House aide, Kathleen Willey, who says she was groped by Clinton in the White House. A White House spokesman said there were no hidden messages in the e-mail accounts. President Clinton has said in the past that he does not use e-mail because of security concerns. "I have no reason to think there's anything that's not on either backup tapes or the electronic archives. We have searched the entire e-mail system to be as responsive as possible," White House spokesman Jake Siewert said in a statement. The civil lawsuit against the Clinton administration, on behalf of the former Reagan and Bush administration officials, was filed by Judicial Watch, a judicial activist group. Judicial Watch believes the Clinton administration engaged in an e-mail cover-up and even threatened witnesses. White House computer specialist Daniel Barry, who initially uncovered the e-mail problem and the former director of the White House Office of Administration, Ada Posey, are still being cross-examined. Independent counsel Robert Ray has decided not to prosecute anyone in the FBI scandal, known as "Filegate." According to Ray, his findings turned up no evidence that the FBI files obtained by the Clinton administration were used for partisan politics. But Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman has no doubt about the Clinton administration's culpability in the e-mail controversy. "No reasonable person listening to this and other court testimony presented in the last several weeks could conclude that the cover-up of the e-mail problem, which included threats and resulted in the production of documents to the court, Congress and the independent counsels, was yet another in a claimed series of innocent bureaucratic snafus. "The Clinton-Gore administration is quite competent in both committing crimes and covering them up," Klayman said. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that "never have we seen such a well-oiled criminal operation in the White House. The Nixon White House was amateur by comparison." Meanwhile, a Virginia grand jury, empaneled by Ray, subpoenaed Sheryl Hall, the former White House employee who broke the Clinton-Gore e-mail case. Hall has previously testified that she witnessed threats and intimidation against Clinton White House employees aimed at keeping them quiet about what Hall called the "cover-up" of e-mail evidence in a number of Clinton scandals, including the one involving the President and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.