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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (17259)	7/22/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Duncan, I just pulled this off of Free Republic and posted up the first few paragraphs. Darrell White House framed Ken Starr on news leaks Capitol Hill Blue 7/22/98 By Doug Thompson The Clinton White House orchestrated a series of news leaks on grand jury testimony and laid the blame on Kenneth Starr, leading to sanctions against the independent counsel, Capitol Hill Blue confirmed early today. White House Communications Director Sid Blumenthal and Clinton campaign consultant James Carville designed the plan that placed information about White House testimony from key Clinton aides in the press so that Starr would ultimately be blamed, according to sources within the White House. "The goal was to force a confrontation before Judge (Norma Holloway) Johnson that would give the President's lawyers access to Starr's case," one White House aide said Tuesday night. "It was a risky strategy, but brilliant if it worked." It appears to have worked. U.S. District Judge Johnson has ordered Starr to disclose information to Clinton's lawyers to determine if the grand jury leaks came from his office. Starr asked an appeals court Tuesday to overturn the judge's ruling on how much information he will have to disclose in a dispute with President Clinton's lawyers over alleged grand jury leaks, legal sources said. As his prosecutors questioned uniformed Secret Service officers, Starr was joined by lawyers for Clinton, former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and Blumenthal in a closed-door hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals. Legal sources familiar with the sealed proceedings, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the hearing was prompted by the recent ruling by Johnson in the dispute over whether grand jury evidence in the Lewinsky investigation has been leaked. The sources said Starr's office is objecting to Johnson's ruling on how much evidence, such as documents and possibly staff testimony, he'll have to disclose as the court considers allegations by Clinton's lawyers that prosecutors leaked grand jury evidence. Starr has denied the allegations, but Johnson has granted a request by Clinton's lawyers to have a "show-cause" proceeding where evidence and testimony would be gathered. In such a proceeding, the burden shifts to prosecutors to convince the judge they were not the source of any improper leaks, the sources said. Under Johnson's ruling, Clinton's lawyers would have access to the information that Starr's office would divulge. "This was the plan all along," a White House aide told Capitol HIll Blue. According to White House sources, the plan was hatched after Carville, leader of the public attacks against Starr, was tipped by a reporter that Starr was hosting "background briefings" for the press on his investigation. Go to the site below for the rest of the article: freerepublic.com