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

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (38596)	3/15/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

Whitewater Lawyers Want Tape Played By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's prosecutors said Monday they hope to play part of Hillary Rodham Clinton's videotaped testimony to a grand jury at the trial of her former Whitewater partner, Susan McDougal. Starr deputy W. Hickman Ewing Jr. said outside the courthouse at the end of Monday's testimony that prosecutors want to play ''perhaps 30 minutes'' of the first lady's testimony, as early as Tuesday. Mrs. McDougal's lawyer, Mark Geragos, was expected to object at a hearing Tuesday morning before the trial resumes. The defense opened the door for prosecutors to present Mrs. Clinton's testimony when Geragos questioned FBI agent Mike Patkus, who works for Starr's office. Patkus said last Thursday that he did not know if prosecutors had asked Mrs. Clinton a series of questions about a $27,600 loan in the name of Bill Clinton from the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan owned by Mrs. McDougal and her former husband, James McDougal. Prosecutors allege that the Clinton loan is connected to a fraudulent $300,000 loan made to Mrs. McDougal in 1986. She is charged with contempt of court and obstruction of justice. Ewing said prosecutors want to ''clear up misimpressions'' left last Thursday when Patkus testified that he wasn't sure Mrs. Clinton had been questioned about the transactions. In particular, Ewing pointed to questions put to the agent about how the Clinton loan was paid off. The prosecutor's interest in showing Mrs. Clinton's testimony from April 25, 1998, arose at the end of the day's trial testimony, when prosecutor Julie Myers, with Patkus still on the witness stand, went through the testimony the agent had given last week. Then, Myers referred to Mrs. Clinton's testimony and at that point Geragos asked for meeting with U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. Mrs. Clinton gave the videotaped testimony at the White House and it was played several days later to the Whitewater grand jury in Little Rock. Earlier Monday, Starr's office put one of its own prosecutors on the witness stand to fight Mrs. McDougal's allegation that Whitewater investigators pressured her to tell lies about the Clintons. Starr's office only asked for the ''total and complete truth,'' former prosecutor Amy St. Eve insisted. The independent counsel's office has been thrown on the defensive by the strategy of Geragos, who is accusing the prosecutor's staff of a pattern of misconduct -- including urging Mrs. McDougal to give testimony that falsely implicates the Clintons. ''Absolutely not,'' St. Eve replied when Myers asked whether Mrs. McDougal had been asked to lie. St. Eve related two conversations she and prosecutor Ray Jahn and his wife, also a prosecutor, engaged in on Aug. 15, 1996, with Mrs. McDougal's lawyer at the time, Bobby McDaniel. Mrs. McDougal listened in on the conversations. Trying to demonstrate close ties between the Clinton camp and some lawyers for major figures in the inquiry, St. Eve read to the jury portions of a memo written by another prosecutor. It said one of Mrs. McDougal's lawyers had contacted Clinton lawyer David Kendall after a discussion of a possible cooperation agreement between Starr's office and McDougal's legal team. Geragos attacked the memo, eliciting from St. Eve that the document was dated Oct. 11, 1996, two months after conversations it was memorializing had occurred.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (38596)	3/15/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: JBL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Bozo, I frequently said you were of using Marxist techniques, or Marxist rethoric, where logic is irrelevant, and the means are justified by the end. I don't see why an artist like you should not be pleased by my description of your act... Say, what do you think of Bakaly getting representation by Shapiro ? This one has organized crime written all over it.... I guess no one should be surprised when DNC supporters that met Clinton include interesting characters such as Wang Jun, Charlie Trie, Jorge Cabrera, Eric Wynn and the like... I'm still waiting for your comments on these guys and DNC financing by the Chinese however...but I know I'm more likely to get the Bozo dance of diversion...