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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (8309)	2/25/1998 2:50:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Holly, as I've detailed on this thread before, even the lowest level government security clearance requires a very thorough investigation into the all aspects of a person's life, past and present. My brother has worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories for over 12 years, and a few years after his employement began, his work required a govt security clearance. LLNL is almost entirely funded by the Dept of Energy. Federal agents, in the process of investigation for this first-level security clearance, flew up here to Vancouver, WA, and personally sat down with my parents to discuss my brother's childhood, his high school days, his high school friends, etc. Then they called and visited some of those high school friends. I don't know what all they asked, and I don't know what other activities a background investigation entails. But suffice to say, the Federal Govt has talked to Monica's family well prior to this current ordeal, and they knew all that can be known from the results of a security clearance background investigation. The Pentagon has had nothing but good things to say of Monica, and have characterized her as a hard worker, putting in more hours than some would have given her relatively low salary (+30K). DK

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (8309)	2/25/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

What I do care about is how and by what means Monica wound up in the Pentagon and at what level of security clearance and what she did there. This is something the media should get their collective teeth into and not let go of until they shake out all the facts. A good point. My understanding is that she did PR stuff, and organizational stuff for trips, sometimes going along. She was said not to have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but, um, a willing and tireless worker. I confess I'm puzzled by all the fuss being made over the 37 visits to the White House after she moved to the Pentagon. There really isn't any reason to think she was seeing Bill on every occasion, or even very often: presumbably he'd encouraged her removal from the White House precisely because he didn't want to see her. And the intern who says she told him about the affair claims that he met her, and often lunched with her, on these return trips. So Dee Dee Myers and George Stephanopoulos say they've not been back to the WH that often: but probably they didn't want to go, and Monica did. Desperately. I have another perplexity to bring up: the Kathleen Willey story. Supposedly she was seen by Tripp as she left Bill's office looking disheveled, with her blouse hanging out of her skirt and her lipstick smeared. Only recently has it occurred to me that there's something badly wrong here. ANY woman would make repairs before venturing into a public area. Several centuries ago, when I was in college, we'd neck with our dates in their cars before going into the dorm; and before leaving the car you can bet we'd do a quick check in the mirror behind the sun visor. And we weren't gonna run into anyone but our friends. It's a natural thing to do. Bill has a bathroom; she coulda nipped in and fixed herself up. In her best interests, and his. Unless, of course, she for some reason wanted to be seen... Odd.