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

To: Les H who wrote (7087)	10/4/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

It is becoming crystal clear that Tripp was long searching for incriminating evidence of whatever kind she could against the President. It's even clear that she tried to "plant" evidence, or embarrassing details, by suggesting to Lewinsky what she should ask the President (e.g. that Lewinsky should compare her age to Chelsea's in a conversation with the President -- which Tripp then knew she would record when Lewinsky reported back. This is hardly the portrait of a woman who was a genuine friend, burdened by revelations of her friend's troubled affair, and only recorded it all to protect herself if she should have to admit that Lewinsky had discussed an affair. That cover story is patently absurd. (If that's all it was a single recording would surely have sufficed. It is absolute apparent that Goldberg and Tripp actively plotted to bring the President down (and make a book fortune in the process). As I was saying several days ago, to the derision of many. Excerpts from the LA Times story you posted: When Tripp first approached Starr's staff on Jan. 12, she offered an alarming, incriminating picture of a conspiracy to obstruct justice, describing a President Clinton who allegedly told Monica S. Lewinsky to "deny, deny, deny," and a Vernon E. Jordan Jr. who purportedly counseled Lewinsky to lie under oath. Tripp's account led Starr's office to open a whole new inquiry into "subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice" related to Lewinsky's testimony in the Paula Corbin Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton. At the time, Starr's team did not even mention simple perjury, which has become the prime focus of the case against Clinton. *** But in the transcripts of Tripp's conversations with Lewinsky released Friday, the evidence of obstructing justice is never quite as crisp as Tripp initially claimed. In the tape-recordings of their telephone conversations, that arresting quote from Clinton--"deny, deny, deny"--never appears. And Lewinsky never describes Jordan, the president's friend, as clearly urging her to commit perjury More and more will be coming out about this. Doug

To: Les H who wrote (7087)	10/4/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 67261

Some excerpts from the Times article detailing the Goldberg/Tripp/Jones lawyers/Starr conspiracy to entrap the President. From: nytimes.com Starr himself was briefly involved in the Jones case: Before becoming the Whitewater independent counsel in August 1994, he helped the Independent Women's Forum, a conservative organization, file a friend of the court brief in the Jones case. Starr was not paid for his services. Earlier this year, Kirkland & Ellis began an internal investigation into whether Porter [Starr's law partner and close political friend] was doing unapproved legal work on the Jones case. * Conway and Porter have also done legal work in support of the Jones case. * The three lawyers [including Porter and Conway], who were all members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization whose events have been attended by Starr, helped Mrs. Tripp find a new lawyer, James A. Moody, who was also a member of the Federalist Society. They then worked together, in secret deliberations with Mrs. Tripp's confidante Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent, to bring Mrs. Tripp's tapes and story to Starr. Ms. Goldberg said Saturday that she had told these lawyers and several other friends who are politically conservative about Mrs. Tripp's accusations in late December and early January. * The three lawyers went to great lengths to hide their communications with Ms. Goldberg and Starr's office. In early January, Ms. Goldberg had conversations with Marcus and Porter to discuss how Mrs. Tripp might contact Starr. In her interview on Saturday, Ms. Goldberg described Marcus as "a cutout," who was brought into the matter to keep Porter's role obscured because of his close ties to Starr. * In November, according to the documents released on Friday, Mrs. Tripp anonymously called lawyers for Mrs. Jones and told them about Ms. Lewinsky's relationship with the president. Both Mrs. Tripp and Ms. Lewinsky were subsequently subpoenaed in the Jones suit. Ms. Goldberg [in a Saturday NY Times interview] added that she also phoned Bennett [of Starr's office] some time in January to discuss Mrs.Tripp's accusations, but she refused to say when. Ms. Goldberg, who in 1972 was a Nixon campaign informer on George McGovern's presidential campaign plane, acknowledged that she relished her role as an instigator and source to Isikoff. "It was cloak and dagger," she said with a laugh, "like the old Nixon years." * On the eve of Clinton's deposition in the Jones case, Mrs. Tripp secretly met for hours with lawyers for Mrs. Jones and briefed them about Ms. Lewinsky. Doug