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

To: Bill Grant who wrote (3470)	8/31/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13994

From what I have read (and I'm going by memory here so please excuse mistakes in details), Starr had Tripp wired up and made her arrange another talk with Lewinsky to discuss Tripp's affidavit at the Ritz Carlton in Virginia on a Saturday. Starr insisted on that date, because the President was going the next day into a deposition in the Jones case and he wanted to make sure that he had the goods on the POTUS before the deposition. Tripp and Lewinsky spoke and Tripp taped it. (I'm not sure if the wire on Tripp at that point was legal or not.) After getting Lewinsky to make all the illegal statements that he needed, Starr's investigators introduced themselves to Lewinsky and hauled her off into a hotel room. They questioned her relentlessly for the next 6-10 hours with no breaks, no phone calls, and no lawyer. She finally insisted on getting to speak to her mother which they allowed her to do. However, for the next 24 hours, she was escorted by the OIC, whose obvious intent was to prevent her from speaking to the POTUS and to possibly prevent him from committing perjury the next day. I believe that although she was allowed eventually to go to NYC (by train) to see her mother, it was only in the presence of members of the OIC. That kind of investigative technique is very heavy-handed and possibly illegal. Doughboy