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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (16959)	7/17/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 20981

CLINTON SLIMES JUDGE: Yahoo! News Human Interest Headlines Friday July 17 1:01 PM EDT Clinton withholds opinion on agents WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) - President Clinton acknowledged he has both a legal and a personal opinion on whether Secret Service agents should testify in the Monica Lewinsky case, but said he could not make that comment publicly. But Clinton said it was ''simply not true,'' as a Reagan-appointed federal appeals court judge alleged in an opinion in the case, that he had decided to ''declare war'' on independent counsel Kenneth Starr. Questioned at an unrelated White House event, Clinton insisted the decision to appeal court orders requiring the testimony of his Secret Service agents was solely the ''professional judgment'' of Attorney General Janet Reno, the Secret Service and Treasury Department officials who oversee it. Clinton admitted, ''I do have an opinion,'' adding: ''I have a legal opinion and I have a personal opinion. But...I think it would be completely inappropriate for me to be involved in this. ''I want the American people to understand that, notwithstanding what some have said and others have implied, this was a decision that came out of the Secret Service, about which they feel very strongly. ''And these people risk their lives to protect me and other presidents in a professional way, not a political way. And they have strong convictions, they have manifested those convictions.'' The administration has been involved in a back-and-forth battle with Starr over whether Secret Service officers including Larry Cockell, the lead agent in charge of protecting Clinton, should be required to answer questions aimed at learning whether Clinton had a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. In one ruling in the case, delivered Thursday by the 11-member U.S. court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Judge Lawrence Silberman complained that the administration has decided to ''literally and figuratively declare war on the independent counsel.'' Alluding to Silberman's political affiliation, Clinton answered: ''Well, you know, I think you have to consider the source of that comment. And that is simply not true.''