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

To: JBL who wrote (34813)	2/21/1999 11:02:00 AM
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Rape scandal rocks Clinton Sunday Telegraph (Australia) February 21, 1999 Ian Cobain THE scandal which has secretly terrified Bill Clinton for years burst into the open yesterday when claims that he raped a woman appeared in America's most respected newspaper. He was said to be "utterly dumbfounded" that the Wall Street Journal had published the allegations. An Arkansas businesswoman, married with a grown-up son, broke 20 years of silence to tell the newspaper Mr Clinton had forced himself upon her. Juanita Broaddrick, 56, said Mr Clinton then calmly told her she did not need to fear becoming pregnant because he was sterile after having mumps as a child. "As though that was the thing on my mind. I wasn't thinking about pregnancy, or about anything," she said. "I felt paralysed and was starting to cry." The White House dismissed the claim as "ridiculous" and insisted the President was the victim of a smear campaign hatched by his political enemies. Mr Clinton's aides pointed out that Mrs Broaddrick had once signed an affidavit denying that the rape happened. But sources at the Journal responded that she did so during the Paula Jones sex harassment case, when other witnesses such as Monica Lewinsky and the President lied under oath. Mrs Broaddrick later told investigator Kenneth Starr that her affidavit was false. Last night, despondency was settling on the White House which, seven days earlier, had been celebrating Mr Clinton's acquittal at the end of the Senate sex-and-lies impeachment trial. To examine this allegation, like many others in Mr Clinton's life, it is necessary to look at events in a hotel room in Little Rock. In the summer of 1978, Mr Clinton was on the first rung of his political career, working as Attorney General for Arkansas. Campaigning for the governor's post, he visited a nursing home in the town of Van Buren and was introduced to Mrs Broaddrick, who worked there as a nurse. She was married and had an eight-year-old son, Kevin. She and Mr Clinton hit it off, and when they met again during a health conference in Little Rock, he invited himself to her room at the Camelot hotel. What occurred that night in Room 824 has been the subject of at least three secret inquiries: by investigators working for Paula Jones' lawyers, by the FBI, and by a woman police sergeant on attachment to the House of Representatives judiciary committee. At least one investigation team concluded that the President was guilty of rape. The allegation is that Mr Clinton tried to persuade Mrs Broaddrick to sleep with him. When that failed, he is said to have ripped her clothes, and bit her lip hard until she succumbed. "This is the part that always stays on my mind," Mrs Broaddrick said, "the way he put on his sunglasses. Then he looked at me and said, 'You better put some ice on that'." The report in the Journal was written by Dorothy Rabinowitz, a member of the newspaper's editorial board. Describing Mrs Broaddrick, she wrote: 'She is a woman of accomplishment, prosperous, successful in her field, serious; a woman seeking no profit, no book, no lawsuit. A woman of a kind people like and warm to.' At the time, the distraught nurse told friends she had walked into a revolving door, fearing that nobody would believe she had been raped by the man running for governor. By the time Clinton announced he was running for the White House, 13 years later, stories about his womanising were legion in Arkansas. But in 1992, rumours began to circulate suggesting he had a far darker secret. According to the gossip, Mrs Broaddrick's second husband David, to whom she has now been married for 18 years, struck a deal with Clinton to keep her silent. In return, the governor was said to have helped the couple establish a highly-profitable old people's home in Van Buren and a clinic for handicapped children in the nearby town of Fort Smith. Kenneth Starr detailed Mrs Broaddrick's allegation in his massive report to the House of Representatives judiciary committee, although details were blacked out before it was published. One House member who has seen the secret files, Florida Republican Tillie Fowler, said later: 'There are things in there that are not good. There's information there that goes to this man's character.' Last night Mrs Broaddrick told the Mail that she hoped 'the whole matter would go away' now that she had spoken about her alleged ordeal. And Clinton? 'I don't care about him at all. He is just a monster.'