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

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (30594)	1/28/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

What headaches? The concentration of powers in the center is a latter development. There are already states without local income taxes, sales taxes, and other differences in public administration. What's wrong with that? Is Clinton about to propose a Federal Minimum Tax Law for the states.

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (30594)	1/28/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

BILLS 2ND CHAT WITH CURRIE CAN BE SEEN AS OBSTRUCTION By DICK MORRIS PRESIDENT Clinton got word that Kenneth Starr was investigating his relationship with Monica Lewinsky 12 hours earlier than was previously thought. The president first learned of the Starr investigation late on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 20, 1998. This revelation is significant because it casts into new light the presidents conversation with his secretary Betty Currie on that date. In this meeting, the president did what he had said two days before on Sunday, Jan. 18 - asking her leading questions in what House impeachment managers say was an attempt to structure her testimony. Impeachment investigators have wondered why the president felt it necessary to repeat himself and have the Tuesday meeting with Currie. It now appears that his conversation with Currie was not simply motivated by a desire to repeat what he had said on Sunday, but was triggered by the presidents learning that Starr was on his case. The new revelation has come to light - and is reported here for the first time - through an examination of an off-hand statement made on Feb. 7, 1998, by then-White House deputy spokesman Joe Lockhart. Seeking to rebut the accusation that the Sunday Clinton-Currie meeting was to coach her testimony, Lockhart noted that the White House learned on Tuesday afternoon about Starrs investigation. This admission puts a new context on Curries subsequent testimony she met with the president on that same day - Tuesday, Jan. 20. The fact that the second of these conversations between Clinton and Currie took place after the White House learned that Starr was on the case reinforces suspicions it was part of the presidents effort to structure Curries testimony - amounting to an obstruction of justice. Until the Lockhart quote came to light, it had been thought that the president first learned of Starrs involvement in the Lewinsky affair late on Tuesday night when it was first posted on the Washington Post Web site. But the Lockhart quote, unearthed in an examination of old White House statements, makes it clear he learned about Starrs interest in the affair on Tuesday afternoon. So what happened is becoming clearer. On Saturday, Jan. 17, 1998, the president was deposed by Paula Jones lawyers. Thats when he learned they were onto his relationship with Lewinsky. On Sunday, Jan. 18, 1998, the president met with Currie and basically told her what she should say if asked about Lewinsky. *On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1998, the president learned, in the afternoon, that Starr was investigating his possible perjury in the Jones deposition. He opened his Oval Office door, called Currie inside and went over the same ground he covered on Sunday.