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...counsel Charles Ruff. Ruff transferred him to the military operator so that Bennett could tell the President himself. And while Bennett was waiting for a line to the President in Senegal, it occurred to him that he had better check and make sure someone wasn't pretending to be Wright's clerk for an April Fools' joke. He put his hand over the phone and asked his associate Amy Sabrin to call the judge's chambers and make sure about the ruling. She did, and by the time Bruce Lindsey answered and handed the phone to the President, Bennett...
...gone into a state-of-the-art laboratory to concoct the ideal judge to lighten his troubles, Clinton could not have conjured a better foil than Susan Webber Wright. Only a female Republican, Bush-appointed, generally unfriendly jurist could provide such a politically and legally sweet ruling. A Democrat, foreseeing the firestorm, probably wouldn't have had the guts to do it. Though criticism rained down on conservative talk-show hosts from callers outraged that one of Clinton's former law students had been allowed to preside over the case, the fact is that Wright is no fan of Bill...
...carefully reasoned ruling, Judge Wright didn't say Clinton was a Boy Scout. She threw out the case by arguing that even if Clinton did everything Jones accused him of doing, it still didn't amount to sexual harassment or assault under the law. There was no evidence, Wright found, that Jones had been harmed by the episode: Jones' argument that she didn't get flowers on Secretaries' Day, that her desk had been moved, that she was discouraged from going after a better state job and too emotionally distressed to function sexually wasn't convincing. Not in the light...
Then the phone rang. It was a clerk from Judge Wright's office, saying that in 30 minutes the judge would issue her ruling in the case. She was granting the motion for summary judgment. It was all over. Bennett had taken a lot of criticism for not settling earlier and avoiding the entire Circus of 1998. But he was convinced all the dirt would have found its way out anyway, and any settlement that included an apology, which Jones' husband had insisted on, would have been seen as an admission of guilt that Clinton would never escape...
...senior White House official said he was convinced Wright's ruling would sink Starr's investigation as well. "It's over," the official said. "Ken Starr was on thin ice anyway. The public isn't going to tolerate his hauling witnesses before the grand jury and continuing his investigation when the case that got this whole thing started has been thrown out." Just to help things along, the surprised White House quickly regrouped and sent its heralds out to draw attention to new charges, that conservative groups paid off David Hale, a key witness in the ongoing land-scam probe...