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

To: Janice Shell who wrote (13143)	4/8/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 20981

Hill probes charge Clinton's '92 team bullied women The Hill By Eamon Javers Congress has broadened its investigation of alleged abuses of Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns to determine whether the 1992 campaign used taxpayer money to investigate and intimidate women who had been romantically linked to Clinton. Investigators on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee telephoned David Lenefsky, attorney for former Clinton advisor Dick Morris last week in response to allegations that Morris made on CNBC's "Equal Time" program. On the program, Morris said the Clinton campaign paid $100,000 to Jack Palladino and other private detectives to investigate women who had been romantically linked to Clinton, and persuade them to sign affidavits denying any such relationship. Morris said, "Under Betsey Wright's supervision in the 1992 Clinton campaign, there was an entire operation funded with over $100,000 of campaign money, which included federal matching funds, to hire private detectives to go into the personal lives of women who were alleged to have had sex with Bill Clinton, to develop compromising material, blackmail information, basically, to coerce them into signing affidavits saying that they did not have sex with Bill Clinton." After seeing the CNBC broadcast, "We recalled that here was a question that he had been asked, and he gave a flat denial," said Will Dwyer, the committee spokesman. "We called [him] to see if he wanted to refresh anything that he had told us in his deposition." Morris had denied knowledge of Palladino's activities when deposed by committee lawyers on Aug. 21, 1997. He said Tuesday that he has no first-hand knowledge of the events and based his comments on previously published press reports. Dwyer says that these additional questions are not a part of an effort to expand the probe, headed by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), into the details of Clinton's sexual past. Rather, Dwyer said, they are part of an effort to determine where campaign dollars were spent in Clinton's campaigns, which were financed in part by federal funds. The additional questions come at a time when Democrats have been increasingly concerned about any attempt of the Burton committee to broaden its scope of inquiry into 1996 campaign finance irregularities. "I would hope that they would hold hearings on this," Morris said. "I do have second-hand information that I would look forward to conveying to them." Meanwhile, ranking Democrat Henry Waxman (Calif.) sent two letters of protest to Chairman Burton Friday. The first denounced committee questions sent to Democratic fundraiser Nathan Landow that Waxman thinks are phrased to overlap with allegations made by former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey that Landow had encouraged her not to provide testimony in the Paula Jones suit. Waxman's second letter informed Burton that he would encourage White House Counsel Bruce Lindsey not to appear for deposition Monday. Waxman had asked Burton to postpone the recess deposition of Lindsey so that minority members could attend. That request was denied. But Lindsey refused to honor the committee's request that he be deposed Monday, instead asking for an extension until after the recess. Burton will not protest that move, although spokesman Will Dwyer said the Republicans aren't happy about it. "The White House keeps talking about getting this done sooner rather than later," Dwyer said. "But when the rubber meets the road, it seems to be the other way around." On the CNBC program last week, Morris alleged there was a taxpayer-financed campaign to "blackmail" women into remaining silent about possible sexual liaisons with Bill Clinton. "There was a $100,000 campaign paid for with federal matching campaign funds to track down women whose only sin was that it was rumored that they had had sex with Clinton. And they were asked to submit affidavits and, in this case, she was asked to lie about it." Asked to clarify this by the program's co-host, Stephanie Miller, Morris responded that there was a private investigator hired by Clinton. "His name was Jack Palladino," he said. The effort was designed to "develop compromising material, blackmail information basically, to coerce them into signing affidavits saying that they did not have sex with Bill Clinton." But Republicans point out that in Morris' deposition last year, he was specifically asked about Palladino and denied any knowledge. In Morris's conversation with committee lawyers in August, the following exchange took place: Q. Do you know a gentleman named Jack Palladino? A. No. I think he is some way involved with the DNC [Democratic National Committee], but I don't know who or what. Morris, who is a regular opinion columnist for The Hill, had previously called for an investigation into these types of activities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: Janice Shell who wrote (13143)	4/9/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Well, gee, let's see now, we know that Tripp and Lewinsky were working at the Pentagon together, and, um, didn't we hear something about 37 known visits of Lewinsky to the WH while she was at the Pentagon? Maybe she was just giving Linda a contemporaneous blow by blow description.