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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 (5692)	9/14/1998 7:58:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 13994

This guy doesn't know when to give up!! He can't even tell the truth about this!!! Clinton Renews Privilege Claim By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton is again delaying the testimony of top aides in the Monica Lewinsky investigation including confidant Bruce Lindsey, renewing a claim of executive privilege abandoned in June, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr disclosed in his report. Starr's referral to the House revealed that Clinton is keeping Lindsey and White House lawyers Lanny Breuer and Cheryl Mills from testifying about contacts with the president. Mills is declining to testify about contact with presidential secretary Betty Currie, a key grand jury witness, and Breuer is refusing to discuss contacts with the president about Mrs. Currie. The earlier claim involving Lindsey covered contacts with grand jury witnesses. The renewed claim of executive privilege raises the possibility that Clinton's top aides will be able to avoid testifying indefinitely on key aspects of the Lewinsky scandal. ''The breadth of the claim was striking'' in Mills' Aug. 11 grand jury appearance, where she invoked the privilege, said Starr's report. ''The privilege was asserted not only for Ms. Mills' communications with the president, senior staff, and staff members of the White House Counsel's Office -- but also for Ms. Mills' communications with private lawyers for the president, private lawyers for grand jury witnesses, and Betty Currie.'' Currie retrieved gifts that Clinton gave to Ms. Lewinsky, an act forming the basis for one of Starr's obstruction charges against the president. According to Starr's report, Ms. Lewinsky said she and the president discussed the possibility of getting the gifts out of her possession so they wouldn't have to be turned over to lawyers in the Paula Jones case. A few hours later, Ms. Lewinsky says, Mrs. Currie called her and said, ''I understand you have something to give me,'' or ''The president said you have something to give me.'' Mrs. Currie, however, testified that Ms. Lewinsky placed the call and raised the subject of transferring the gifts. Mrs. Currie said she did not remember Clinton telling her that Ms. Lewinsky wanted her to hold some items. Starr's report said that in an Aug. 4 grand jury appearance, Breuer ''would not answer, for example, whether the president had told him about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and whether they had discussed the gifts he had given to Monica Lewinsky.'' U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson rejected Breuer's executive privilege claim, but four days after Clinton's Aug. 17 grand jury testimony, the president filed a notice of appeal. On Aug. 28, Lindsey appeared before the grand jury and the president asserted executive privilege, even though Clinton in June had dropped the claim of executive privilege for Lindsey's grand jury testimony. The White House clung to a claim of attorney-client privilege regarding Lindsey, but lost that court battle. In Clinton's Aug. 17 grand jury appearance, prosecutors asked the president why he had abandoned the executive privilege claim when the matter appeared headed for the Supreme Court in June. Starr had won the issue in the appeals court. ''I strongly felt we should not appeal your victory on the executive privilege issue,'' Clinton replied. Four days after making that statement to the grand jury, Clinton filed his notice of appeal on Breuer. AP-NY-09-14-98 1946EDT newsday.com