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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (517045)	12/30/2003 9:41:38 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 769670

Kenneth, it is that very hate that will destroy the Democratic Party. I just saw a political analyst on T/V this morning who said that DEAN if he doesnt get the nomination is very likely to SPLIT from the Democratic Party (and who would blame him for the treatment he has gotten) and form his own 3rd party movement and further that if the Green Party ran the Democratic Party stood a very good chance of coming in THIRD in the elections. Now, we Republicans are a LOVING BUNCH and accept all the ones who feel disenfranchised by their party. jdn

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (517045)	12/30/2003 11:17:50 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

Panel Rules U.S. Won't Reimburse Lewinsky By Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 31, 2003; Page A02 Former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky is not entitled to government reimbursement for $1.1 million she spent on legal fees related to an independent counsel investigation of President Bill Clinton and his affair with her, a federal appellate panel ruled yesterday. The three-judge panel, led by Justice David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, found that Lewinsky failed to meet the required standard for having U.S. taxpayers pay her legal bills. The judges said Lewinsky could -- and probably would -- have been prosecuted by the Justice Department for perjury if independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr had not been looking into the matter. Sentelle, a Reagan appointee, was a member of the three-judge panel that appointed Starr. People who are not indicted in independent counsel investigations can, under the 1978 Ethics in Government law, be reimbursed for legal fees if they show they would not have been pursued but for the counsel's investigation. In its ruling, the panel rejected Lewinsky's assertion that "there would have been no investigation of her conduct had it not involved the president." The judges noted that the independent counsel's office had gathered substantial evidence that Lewinsky had lied about her affair and perjured herself. "[T]he criminal offense investigated was perjury for which ordinary citizens are routinely investigated and prosecuted," the panel wrote. The two other judges on the panel are Thomas M. Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, a Carter appointee, and Peter T. Fay of the 11th Circuit, a Ford appointee. Lewinsky petitioned the court to have her legal fees reimbursed from the time Starr confronted her about her relationship with Clinton, in January 1998, until Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in February 1999. The same special panel largely rejected a petition from the former president and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for $3.58 million in reimbursement of their legal fees in July. The Clintons said they incurred the costs while independent counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. investigated their roles in the failed Arkansas land-development deal known as Whitewater, and later, when Fiske's successor, Starr, expanded the investigation into Clinton's affair with Lewinsky. The panel did agree to repay the Clintons for 2 percent of their bills: the $85,312 spent to review the independent counsel's report. The Lewinsky scandal nearly led to Clinton's removal from office. He was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 but was acquitted of the charges in a Senate trial. The case began during a civil lawsuit concerning a sexual harassment charge against Clinton by Paula Jones, a former state worker in Arkansas who alleged that Clinton had tried to get her to perform a sexual act when he was governor. On his last day in office in 2001, Clinton acknowledged in an agreement with the independent counsel that he had given false and misleading information under oath during that investigation.