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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (3273)	8/26/1998 9:50:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Clinton Defense May Prepare Report JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Bracing for Kenneth Starr's report, some of President Clinton's political advisers want to send Congress a separate version to counter the special prosecutor with evidence from the president's defense team. Such a move would be designed to provide Clinton's Democratic allies on Capitol Hill with ammunition to argue against starting impeachment proceedings in the Monica Lewinsky case - and to influence public perceptions, too. The idea has been ''batted around'' and passed on to Clinton's lawyers by political advisers, said one senior administration official. A second official said the report could be written like a dissenting report during a congressional investigation, evaluating the same evidence but coming to different conclusions. The officials, both of whom commented only on condition of anonymity, cautioned that no decisions have been made and that it is unclear how Clinton's lead private attorney, David Kendall, views the idea. Kendall was out of town Wednesday and unavailable for comment. Advisers note that there are other options for putting forth information helpful to Clinton, such as press briefings, release of documents and interviews with aides or even the president himself. Starr, the independent counsel, is expected to deliver a report to Congress as early as next month that would outline possible impeachable offenses in the Lewinsky case, including perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of the power of the presidency. Clinton's defenders are likely to respond soon after. At issue is whether Clinton lied under oath in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit and tried to obstruct the lawsuit and subsequent criminal investigation by concealing the nature of his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. Last week, Clinton ended seven months of public denial by acknowledging he had an inappropriate relationship with Ms. Lewinsky and had misled both his family and the country. But the president told a grand jury that his denial of ''sexual relations'' with Ms. Lewinsky under oath last January was legally accurate even though he had engaged in sexual contact with her, legal sources said. John Barrett, a former Iran-Contra prosecutor, said the idea of the White House responding to a Starr report in some form has precedence. Richard Nixon sent his aides to testify early in the Senate Watergate investigation to counter some charges. And Iran-Contra figures were allowed to review the prosecutors' final report before it was released. Their dissenting views were incorporated into the report released publicly. ''An advocacy document would be seen for what it is. It is sort of a defense case. And one way or another it would seem appropriate,'' said Barrett, now a St. John's University law professor. Barrett said such a document may have as much to do with trying to sway initial public opinion as with providing lawmakers new evidence. For the past seven months, as Starr has gathered evidence in secret with a grand jury, Clinton's legal team has aggressively assembled its own evidence, both from private investigators and through the help of defense lawyers who agreed to provide the White House details of their clients' testimony to the grand jury.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (3273)	8/27/1998 3:23:00 AM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

<<<Geraldo Rivera made an on-air apology Tuesday for suggesting on his CNBC show the previous evening that the Pennsylvania congressman took credit for medals he never received. Rivera said he had received a call from a "source very close to President Clinton.'' >>> <SCREEEEECHHHH>DR. GOEBBELS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING....REPEAT DR. GOEBBELS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING.... In a related story Geraldo Rivera was stunned when he learned that the medals of Congressman McHale were found in Al Capone's secret vault.