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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (2349)	8/20/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

No, that's wrong. As I said before, his report will not detail any Whitewater matters: Starr Report Is Expected to Focus on Lewinsky By Susan Schmidt and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, August 12, 1998; Page A01 Independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr could send his long-awaited report to Congress within weeks of President Clinton's testimony next Monday, and it is likely to be limited to evidence of possible impeachable acts growing out of the president's relationship with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The report is not expected to include material related to Clinton's past financial dealings in Arkansas -- the so-called Whitewater matter Starr has been investigating for four years. Instead, the sources said, it is expected to concentrate entirely on whether the president lied in the now-dismissed Paula Jones civil lawsuit about an affair with Lewinsky or urged her to do so. The arrival of a narrowly focused report on Capitol Hill would threaten the election-year game plans of Republicans and Democrats and would set off a legal and political process for which neither party seems fully prepared. Only White House strategists appear anxious to see the matter move from the grand jury room to Capitol Hill. Congressional Republicans will soon have to map out procedures for handling Starr's report, and they say they will change House rules after they return from their summer recess in an effort to maintain the secrecy of the grand jury evidence when the Starr report is received. But members of both parties, as well as White House strategists, anticipate that the report's findings could quickly become public, triggering a partisan and acrimonious debate that could complicate efforts to handle the material in an orderly fashion. Starr's report, which has been in preparation for months but whose final form likely will be affected by the president's Aug. 17 testimony to the grand jury, is not expected to contain conclusions or recommendations to lawmakers. Instead, the sources said, it will be a presentation of evidence about Clinton's conduct in the Jones lawsuit. The report is expected to lay out the evidence against the president and the procedures used to gather it, along with voluminous supporting material such as grand jury transcripts, physical and documentary evidence, and the secret tape recordings made by Linda R. Tripp of her conversations with Lewinsky. The bulk of the evidence Starr has assembled relates to whether Clinton lied under oath when he denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky in his Jan. 17 deposition in the Jones case and whether he encouraged her to provide false testimony. Clinton was asked about other women in the Jones deposition, and the lawyers said the report could also include an examination of that testimony and whether the president or others tried to discourage any of the other women from testifying truthfully in the Jones case. Earlier this year, Starr's team was considering whether to include allegations of possible perjury by Clinton in the 1996 bank fraud trial of his former Whitewater business partners, Susan McDougal and her late ex-husband James B. McDougal. The sources close to the investigation said Starr and his team have decided not to include these allegations in the report to Congress. Other issues that Starr's office has spent four years investigating -- from the original Whitewater land deal and the controversy over the firing of the White House travel office staff in 1993 to the improper handling of FBI background files on hundreds of former Republican appointees -- will become part of a report Starr will file later with the federal appeals court panel that appointed him. White House officials and congressional Democrats said that a report limited only to the Lewinsky investigation -- and not including evidence of presidential wrongdoing in other matters -- would be good news for Clinton, even if the report contains damaging evidence. They argue that the public already has reached a judgment about Clinton and Lewinsky and is ready to move on.