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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (10064)	10/19/1998 10:32:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 67261

Do Bill and Hillary swing? salonmagazine.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Camille: Are the Clintons swingers? They seemed to miss much of the fun of the '60s and '70s, and perhaps are trying to catch up. Just seems like a plausible explanation for this whole damn mess. James Dear James: The Clintons are tunnel-vision workaholics with a Messiah complex. No matter how they trim, plot, spin and screw up, they believe in their overwhelming virtue and others' diabolic envy. Yet it's the Clintons themselves who take the serpent's pleasure in outwitting others through manipulation and distortion of language. Bill longs to swing, but he's got the guilts, so he has to pay and pay at the office. His solicitous secretary must shoehorn gals into his datebook, while a phalanx of guards, valets and other uniformed nannies minds the doors and cleans up the piddle puddle. Hillary's a Protestant nun who found her melancholic cavalier in Vincent Foster (cf. the impractical, shilly-shallying Ashley Wilkes), but who prefers men-as-children -- a condescending habit of mind she got en famille when she played lady of the manor to her two foot-shuffling, forelock-tugging younger brothers (serfs who trembled before paternal tyranny). Psychologically, Hillary's too tough a nut for most of the media to crack. I stand by my early Salon portrait of her as "the first drag queen" (which the New Republic asked me to expand into a March 4, 1996, cover story that made Clinton sycophants like Linda Bloodworth-Thomason foam at the mouth). Hillary's unresolved, internal gender wars have brought a herd of stampeding hippopotami (Tripp, Lewinsky, et al.) upon us. We keep trying to turn the channel, but this ashcan-school situation-comedy is stuck in reruns.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (10064)	10/19/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Respond to of 67261

Memos From Jones Lawsuit Released By James Jefferson Associated Press Writer Monday, October 19, 1998; 9:15 a.m. EDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- In written answers in the Paula Jones lawsuit made public today, President Clinton testified that he had not had ''sexual relations'' with any women who worked for the federal government or the state of Arkansas since 1986, a time frame set by the judge. Clinton's one-word answer to that question -- ''none'' -- was included in hundreds of pages of previously secret documents released on the Internet by U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who oversaw the case. The release comes as a settlement remains elusive and lawyers on both sides prepare to make arguments Tuesday before a federal appeals court in St. Paul, Minn., that is considering whether to reinstate Mrs. Jones' lawsuit accusing the president of sexual harassment. Clinton's legal team on Sunday rejected an offer from Mrs. Jones to settle the case for $2 million -- $1 million each from Clinton and New York real estate developer Abe Hirschfeld, who volunteered his own money -- sources close to the case said today. The documents mostly detail the behind-the-scenes maneuvers by lawyers in the case, from bickering over details of questions to efforts by some witnesses to avoid having to testify. The documents include several written answers by the president. In one set of answers in November 1997, Clinton testified he could not recall ever meeting Mrs. Jones but denied her allegation that he made a crude sexual advance and exposed himself to her in an Arkansas hotel room in May 1991. Clinton initially refused to answer broadly worded questions about whether he ever had sex with any women other than his wife or engaged in liaisons arranged by Arkansas state troopers. His lawyers argued the questions exceeded the grounds of decency and the scope of the case, the documents show. ''President Clinton objects to this request for admission in that it is intended solely to harass, embarrass and humiliate the president and the office he occupies,'' his lawyers wrote. Wright ordered Clinton in December to answer the question but narrowed it to a period of five years prior to the alleged episode involving Mrs. Jones, starting in May 1986, through the present. The judge also limited the question to those women ''who were state or federal employees, and those whose liaisons with Governor Clinton were procured, protected, concealed, and/or facilitated by state troopers assigned to the governor.'' Clinton complied with the judge's order. ''None,'' he answered to the question. Clinton has since admitted to having an intimate relationship and sexual contacts with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, but has said he understood the term ''sexual relations'' to cover only intercourse. Other documents released today include: --The court filing in which Ms. Lewinsky, dubbed Jane Doe No. 6 by the court, tried to avoid testifying in the sexual harassment lawsuit by claiming she ''does not have any relevant information.'' ''Plaintiff seeks to depose Jane Doe 6 to unreasonably invade her privacy and subject her to harassment through questioning, disrupt her personal life, as well as cause her to pay unnecessary counsel fees and costs,'' Ms. Lewinsky's lawyer argued in a motion filed Jan. 20, 1998, the day before the story of her affair with the president became public. Attached to the motion was Ms. Lewinsky's previously disclosed affidavit denying a sexual relationship with Clinton -- a document that landed her in the throes of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation. --Affidavits from White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff; Clinton's private lawyer, Robert Bennett; and Mrs. Jones and her lawyers denying they leaked Clinton's deposition in the Jones case to the news media. --Court filings showing that the custodian of records for Mrs. Jones' legal defense fund, which raised money for her legal bills, fought a subpoena seeking records from the fund. The documents didn't include a transcript of that deposition in which Clinton denied having sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has accused the president of perjury in that deposition. The deposition behind the House's impeachment inquiry into Clinton's conduct was widely believed to be among the evidence Wright would release. But the judge said Friday that no transcript of the president's deposition was on file with the court. Portions of the deposition were filed in Mrs. Jones' written pleadings before the court and already have been made public. There was no explanation why the complete deposition wasn't among the 214 sealed documents at the court. Mrs. Jones claims Clinton propositioned her in a Little Rock hotel room in 1991, when she was a state employee and he was governor of Arkansas. Clinton says he doesn't recall meeting Mrs. Jones and has denied anything improper happened. In dismissing the sexual harassment lawsuit, Wright concluded that no matter what occurred between Mrs. Jones and Clinton, Mrs. Jones did not prove she was harmed emotionally or in her career as she contended. The Internet address for the court is are.uscourts.gov search.washingtonpost.com