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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (4964)	9/23/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

A very large part of the disgust, although usually little of the argument, among those that are disgusted with Clinton, is centered on his sexual transgressions, and hiding them from the light of day. Of course the prigs never admit this. Never do. He felt it vital to his political health to conceal his Lewinsky transgressions in the Jones deposition, though legal, because of the large contingent out there that would forever persecute and ridicule him if it became public. The Jones lawyers cleverly conceived of a way to thoroughly trap him with their bogus and frivolous harassment suit. (They didn't execute very well in the deposition, but the overall plan was brilliant. Finding a stooge like Paula Jones, and growing her story, and all.) Through that vehicle, full of the potential for abuse that sexual harassment suits are, they could engage in an irrelevant dragnet, and even though the Jones suit itself would almost certainly loose, do great damage, by using the fuits of that dragnet before the judge got around to ruling them immaterial. By leaking any admissions that Clinton had further engaged in his well known weakness. And sending to Starr for prosecution any misleading testimony that he had not. Linda Tripp may well have been recruited as well. Don't know. There were after all some rumors about Monica, so she was a likely target to investigate. Tripp had been growing disaffected with Clinton's "getting away" with stuff for some time. She may well have been actively recruited to befriend, and get information out of (and then tape) Monica by the same group that uncovered Flowers, recruited Paula Jones, and paid for her lawsuit. (Later through the front of Whitehead's foundation, to which they undoubtedly became large contributors.) Lucien Goldberg may well have been contacted by that group to recruit Tripp. With the promise of a lucrative book deal as a (legal and explainable) reward. Many books about all this will be written. Some right wing media outlets, such as the American Spectator, took an early active role. But the great bulk of the mainstream media is certainly not in any subterranian way part of a right wing conspiracy. They needed to be brought in, through the proper bait, and hook. The Paula Jones suit, and the torrent of leaks therefrom. Voila!!! Media fully hooked, beyond the right wing funders' wildest dreams. Mellon-Scaife, and friends, RULE. If this has been going on, why hasn't the media investigated? They have, a little. But this story has been utterly drowned out by the spectacle of a popular President being possibly brought down by a sex scandal with tinges of illegality. Further, one of the principal ways of investigating THIS story is to trace sources. Which violates a cardinal principal, and perceived right, held with religious conviction by the media: protect sources at all costs. So that story goes nowhere. The media have been dining off leaks from the lawyers working for that crowd, and more recently from Starr's office, for months. Doug