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To: epicure who wrote (17291)	1/29/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Alexa, Janice, Christina, anyone... here's the current blurb on why Reno granted expanded powers to Starr.. This states that Reno thought that Lewinsky was a "cooperating" (read 2nd paragraph), to the taping... which is NOT TRUE. Did Starr mis-represent the legality of the Tripp tapes to Reno??? "Associated Press Writer Thursday, January 29, 1998; 5:15 p.m. EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Janet Reno told a federal court two weeks ago that an investigation of President Clinton should be expanded to include the Lewinsky matter, in part because the former White House intern was recorded saying that she would ask a witness to lie. ''In a taped conversation with a cooperating witness, Ms. Lewinsky states that she intends to lie when deposed'' in Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against President Clinton, Reno said in court papers released Thursday. ''In the same conversation, she urges the cooperating witness to lie in her own upcoming deposition.'' The court papers confirm that subornation of perjury -- asking someone to lie under oath -- was a key justification for Reno to seek expansion of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation. Reno's justification for seeking expanded authority was submitted to a three-judge federal court Jan. 16 and granted the same day.