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

To: flickerful who wrote (9508)	3/3/1998 12:10:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Report: Starr Probes Former Lewinsky Lawyer Tuesday March 3 6:41 AM EST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is asking a federal judge here to grant him, through a subpoena, notes, case files and diary entries from Monica Lewinsky's former lawyer, according to a report in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times. "Despite the legal privilege that normally protects the confidentiality of communications between attorneys and their clients, Starr also is seeking potentially to question the lawyer, Francis D. Carter, before a federal grand jury," the newspaper reported. Carter helped prepare the affidavit submitted by Lewinsky in January denying that the former White House intern had a sexual relationship with President Clinton. Lewinsky was driven to Carter's office by Clinton friend Vernon Jordan, the Times said. Jordan was due to testify Tuesday before the grand jury investigating whether Clinton had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky and urged her to lie about it under oath. "At the same time," the newspaper reported, "Starr is facing sophisticated maneuvering from Clinton's lawyers, who are using the prospect of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege in an attempt to block the questioning of some White House officials." Carter's subpoenaed notes "could reflect what Lewinsky told him about her relationship with Clinton, how the affidavit was prepared or the comments of Jordan," the Times reported. In another development, White House drug policy spokesman Bob Weiner on Tuesday demanded an apology from Starr for making him testify in the sex scandal swirling around Clinton. Weiner sent Starr a two-page letter criticizing the prosecutor and his staff for questioning him about personal phone calls he and his wife, Patricia Berg, made to friends in a local Democratic Party group in Howard County, Md. Weiner said he called the group to applaud its press release urging a county prosecutor to determine if Linda Tripp violated state law by secretly recording conversations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about her alleged affair with Clinton. It is illegal to tape a conversation in Maryland without first informing the other person or persons. Weiner said his wife used to be an official of the group. Starr and a federal grand jury are investigating whether Clinton encouraged Lewinsky to lie about the alleged affair. Clinton has denied the allegations in forceful public statements, and Lewinsky denied there was a sexual relationship in a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Weiner expressed outrage about the subpoena and likened the questioned to which he was subjected to anticommunist hearings conducted by then-senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. "Your involving me crystallized our view that the investigation has gone haywire, that it is partisan despite claims of seeking the truth, that it is in fact just a 'hate hearing' against the president at any cost to the taxpayer and to individual rights," Weiner said in the letter, a copy of which he released to Reuters. "All we did was exercise our First Amendment rights," Weiner said, referring to the constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to free speech. "When Pat was on the treadmill at home and saw the efforts of her friends reported on TV, we called to congratulate them." yahoo.com