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To: Grainne who wrote (17295)	1/30/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

CLINTON ACCUSED Excerpts: After Subpoenas, Tripp and Lewinsky Discuss Options Sunday, Jan. 25, 1998; Page A19 The week before Christmas, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp had been subpoenaed to be deposed in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton. They suspected they would be asked whether Lewinsky had a sexual relationship with the president. Lewinsky called Tripp late one evening and again the next morning. Tripp taped the conversations. Excerpts of those recordings, as heard by Newsweek, follow: Tripp asks Lewinsky for permission to tell her lawyer about the dilemma. LEWINSKY: Don't you think he's going to say, "Linda, I can't let you lie?" TRIPP: He may, but it's not going to hurt us more than we already are hurt. LEWINSKY: But it's one more person who will know. . . . LEWINSKY: Look, maybe we should just tell the creep. Maybe we should just say, "Don't ever talk to me again, I [expletive] you over [by telling others about the relationship]. Now you have this information, do whatever you want with it. TRIPP: Well, if you want to do that, that's what I would do. But I don't know that you're comfortable with that. I think he should know. LEWINSKY: He won't settle [the Jones case]. He's in denial. TRIPP: I think if he [expletive] knew, he would settle. LEWINSKY: I don't think so because he knows what it will end up just being is me against you. I don't want to paint you as a bad person. TRIPP: Look, Monica, we already know you're going to lie under oath. We also know that I want out of this big time. . . . If I have to testify, it's going to be the opposite of what you say. . . . LEWINSKY: Well, it doesn't have to be a conflict. TRIPP: What do you mean? How? Tell me how? [What am I] supposed to say if they say, "Has Monica Lewinsky ever said to you that she is in love with the president or is having a physical relationship with the president?" If I say no, that is [expletive] perjury. That's the bottom line. I will do everything I can not to be in that position. That's what I'm trying to do. . . . I think you really believe that this is very easy, and I should just say [expletive] it. They can't prove it. LEWINSKY: I believe you, but obviously I don't have the same feelings about the situation. . . . TRIPP: What do you mean? LEWINSKY: Because if I had the same feelings that it was so wrong to deny something then I would not be doing it. You see what I mean? TRIPP: I think down deep you don't like having to lie. LEWINSKY: . . . I don't think anybody likes to. . . . I would lie on the stand for my family. That is how I was raised. TRIPP: You're going to die here. I would do almost anything for my kids, but I don't think I would lie on the stand for them. . . . LEWINSKY: I was brought up with lies all the time . . . that's how you got along. . . . I have lied my entire life. . . . TRIPP: This is so amazingly huge to me. . . . LEWINSKY: Look, I will deny it so he will not get screwed in the case, but I'm going to get screwed personally. TRIPP: . . . This is sick, this is sick. . . . The women discuss a plan for Tripp to have a "foot accident" and end up in the hospital when she is to be deposed. TRIPP: Look. I can't lie under oath, so I have to think of a way that I don't have to. . . . I only wish you'd tell the big one [that I know]. Then I'd know he knew. . . . LEWINSKY: I can't. If I do that, I'm just going to [expletive] kill myself. . . . TRIPP: He hasn't asked you if you told anyone? LEWINSKY: . . . He asked me something, and I said no. . . . The other one, the one I saw today [apparently Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the president's confidant], asked me, . . . "You didn't tell anybody, did you?" TRIPP: And what did you say? LEWINSKY: No. TRIPP: Oh, Jesus Christ. And you think anything you tell him would definitely get back to the other one? LEWINSKY: Of course it would. The women return to a discussion of whether there is any hard evidence that could hurt them. LEWINSKY: Whatever they have, if they have anything, has to be inadmissible. Nobody saw him give me any of those things and nobody saw anything happen between us. TRIPP: Are you positive that nobody saw you in the study? LEWINSKY: I'm absolutely positive. TRIPP: How about Betty [Currie]? . . . TRIPP: What if they are able to subpoena records? LEWINSKY: What records? TRIPP: Phone records. LEWINSKY: Phone calls to me? Honestly. . . . I'd say I was afraid to say he [called me] because we're friends, and I know what this case is about. . . . I'm sure he calls on some sort of special phone. . . . You know he got caught once [by using a regular phone] so . . . Lewinsky sighs and again expresses her wish that Clinton would settle the Jones case. She concludes it will never happen. TRIPP: You don't know that yet. LEWINSKY: Yeah, I do, from the way -- what Vernon said. TRIPP: Was he definite? LEWINSKY: Oh, you could hear it in his voice. It's like done. . . . TRIPP: I can't be involved in this. I can't be a party to all this ugliness that will do nothing except destroy people. . . . LEWINSKY: I will have lost the two closest people to me. . . . TRIPP: Maybe Vernon's right and it's a huge fishing net because of the rumor [that Lewinsky was having sex with Clinton]. . . . Maybe it's just us flipping out. The women discuss letters, photos and gifts that Lewinsky says she gave to and got from Clinton, and they debate how to respond to the portion of Lewinsky's subpoena that asks for all such evidence. Lewinsky worries that the inscription on an official White House photograph is so personal that lawyers will use it against her. She says she tried to call Currie to ask for a clean copy of the picture so that she might give that one to the lawyers. But she says Currie is unavailable. TRIPP: My fear is that they have information that we don't know that they have . . . and they can nail us. . . . LEWINSKY: If I need to, I would say . . . this did not happen [the sexual relationship]. . . . God forbid . . . somebody had a video camera of him and me. I would still say I never told you anything. . . . First of all, for your sake, but also for my own sake.

To: Grainne who wrote (17295)	1/30/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

Statement Claims Clinton Called Intern Linda Tripp Speaks Out ABCNEWS.com Jan. 29 - Former White House staffer Linda Tripp, in a statement released late tonight, depicted herself as a loyal administration worker who stumbled onto the alleged link between Monica Lewinsky and President Clinton. Tripp's statement was issued to various news agencies in Washington, including ABCNEWS. In it, Tripp said she overheard parts of a telephone call at 2 o'clock in the morning last November and that Lewinsky subsequently told her that she was talking to the president. "I was present when she received a late night phone call from the president," Tripp said in her statement, issued by her lawyer, Jim Moody. "I have also seen numerous gifts they exchanged and heard several of her tapes with him." Overheard Call While Visiting Tripp said she was staying overnight in the guest bedroom at Lewinsky's apartment in the Watergate and was awakened by a ringing telephone, Moody told The Associated Press. "Linda did hear parts of the conversation; I'm not going to characterize them, but the call lasted about 20 minutes," Moody said. "All of this is headed for the grand jury investigating the president." After the phone call was over, Moody said, the two women sat down together, Monica explained that it had been the president calling and they discussed the matter in detail. Moody said he also would not comment on that discussion. White House spokesman Barry Toiv declined to comment on Tripp's statement, the AP reported. Tripp Defends Lewinsky She described Lewinsky as "a bright, caring, generous soul-one who has made poor choices." "She was not a stalker; she was invited," Tripp said of Lewinsky. "She did not embellish, the truth is sensational enough." Tripp also complained of attempts to discredit Lewinsky. "She, as anyone else, should not be forced to defend her private life as a carefully orchestrated campaign is launched to discredit her," Tripp said. "As a parent of children close to Monica's age, I felt and continue to feel horror at the abuse of power and emotional anguish she has endured over a two-year period." Picture of a Public Servant Lewinsky reportedly befriended Tripp and told her of her alleged affair with Clinton. Tripp later surreptitiously taped her conversations with Lewinsky, and turned the tapes over to the office of independent counsel Kenneth Starr. In her statement, Tripp said she proudly serves as a political appointee and had never inserted herself into any alleged scandals in the Clinton administration until this month. But she acknowledged being a witness in Starr's investigation of White House lawyer Vince Foster's death and the firing of White House travel office employees in Clinton's first term. "I chose to contact Mr. Starr's staff because I had confidence in his fairness, thoroughness and integrity based on my experience during previous investigations," Tripp said in her statement.