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

To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (8664)	2/27/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Do you suppose Hillary Rodam was using your above arguments while she was serving on the legal team investigating Nixon, when considering the appropriateness of using the Nixon tapes as core evidence of his knowledge of the Watergate break-in? As I've said before, I think it's amazing (and unfortunate) that Hillary didn't learn a more lasting lesson from her period of service on the Watergate committee. But the Watergate tapes were in several ways a very different proposition. First, they were made with the knowledge of the participants. Second, they were kept in the White House under lock and key, carefully documented and looked after. Any messing with them that was gonna be done would have had to be done by someone on the WH staff: that is, an ally of Nixon's, acting in his interests. The Tripp/Lewinsky tapes have a rather more checkered history: made by Tripp without Lewinsky's knowledge, listened to, perhaps copied and passed on to Lucianne Goldburg; then given--in a complete version?--to Newsweek, and also to Starr. Who else may have had access? And Tripp can scarcely be characterized as Lewinsky's advocate. So. Not the same thing at all.