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...Jones sexual-harassment case were gaining speed, preparing a long list of witnesses who they thought might be able to testify to a pattern of aggressive sexual behavior by the President. When one of those witnesses, Linda Tripp, offered Starr her secret tape recordings of Monica Lewinsky describing an affair with the President and her intention to lie about it, it opened up a whole new world of opportunity for the prosecutor. Adultery was not an impeachable offense, but it might be a pathway to perjury and obstruction of justice by the President and his friend Vernon Jordan...
...with a statement of her own. She insisted she had been an overnight guest in Lewinsky's Watergate apartment last November when the phone rang at 2 a.m. Lewinsky, she claimed, had told her the caller was Clinton. The two women talked into the night about the purported affair. She said she had also seen many of the gifts Clinton and Lewinsky allegedly exchanged...
...looked for a while as though Starr finally had his silver bullet. Lewinsky and Clinton, after all, had denied the affair under oath; the Tripp tapes allowed Starr to threaten Lewinsky with prosecution for perjury unless she would help him expose the President's cover-up. But day after day, well into last week, the immunity talks went nowhere. On Monday, Lewinsky's lawyer William Ginsburg offered what he called a "complete proffer," in which he provided a detailed account of what she would say in exchange for a full grant of immunity. But by Thursday he announced that...
...After a week of relative calm, the Monica Lewinsky affair has been blown wide open again. What Currie has apparently told investigators about Clinton, that he coaxed her with questions like "We [he and Lewinsky] were never alone, right?" ? seems in contradiction to Currie's own recollections about Lewinsky and her relationship to the president...
...Meanwhile, Jones' attorneys have filed a motion to oppose Clinton attorney Bob Bennett's request to move up the trial date from May to March, and announced they will soon file motions to readmit into Jones' sexual harassment case the evidence related to Monica Lewinsky -- her alleged affair with Clinton, the efforts at getting her a job, the allegations of subornation of perjury and witness tampering --which were excluded from Jones' case by Judge Wright. Jones' lawyers will also ask that all pretrial proceedings in the case be put on hold until April 1, when the status of the criminal...