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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7942)	10/8/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Yes Betty, Bennett tries to salvage his reputation and admits that Clinton lied to the court in his January deposition and perjured himself again in his August taped testimony before the Federal Grand Jury: Clinton lawyer to judge: Lewinsky lied in affidavit WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — NBC News has learned that Robert Bennett, President Bill Clinton's lawyer in the Paula Jones case, secretly wrote to Judge Susan Webber Wright eight days ago, saying that as an officer of the court he had an ethical obligation to inform the judge that Monica Lewinsky's affidavit in the Jones case was a lie. "The Clinton Crisis" - Complete Coverage NBC's David Bloom reports Thursday on what's in, and the significance of, Robert Bennett's letter WHY IS THIS significant? Because the president swore in his deposition last January, and in his grand jury testimony in August, that Lewinsky's affidavit denying a “sexual relationship” with the president was “absolutely true.” Now Clinton and his attorney are on the record disagreeing about whether Lewinsky told the truth. And by extension whether the president told the truth. Bennett's letter came to light in papers filed Oct. 1 but made public only Wednesday night. According to the Jones legal team and other sources, Bennett's letter “confirms that the Lewinsky affidavit is false and misleading.” And it goes on to say that Wright “should not rely on Ms. Lewinsky's affidavit or remarks of counsel characterizing that affidavit.” That last line is a reference to the president's January deposition when Bennett held up Lewinsky's affidavit and said this proves “there is absolutely no sex of any kind in any in any manner, shape or form with President Clinton.” Seven months later, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's prosecutors were incredulous that the president would continue to insist in his videotaped grand jury testimony that Lewinsky's affidavit was true. “The statement that there was ‘no sex of any kind in any manner, shape or form with President Clinton' was an utterly false statement. Is that correct,” prosecutor Solomon Winsenberg asked the president. “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is' is,” Clinton responded. “If the — if he — if ‘is' means is and never has been, that is not — that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.” This week, when chief Republican counsel David Schippers spelled out 15 possible grounds for impeachment, he too focused on the Lewinsky affidavit. “Both Ms. Lewinsky and the President knew that her false affidavit would be used to mislead the plaintiff's attorneys and the court,” he said. Now Clinton's own lawyer agrees that Lewinsky was lying, making it far more difficult for the president to claim that he was not. But the president's defenders argue that none of this changes the fact that, even if Clinton was less than truthful, he was only covering up an extra-marital affair. Said one White House aide Thursday morning: “This doesn't move the ball an inch.” msnbc.com That's BIG news and moves the ball miles towards proving Clinton committed impeachable offenses.