LEWINSKY PAL SAYS CLINTON CALLED INTERN.Byline: Francis X. Clines The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times The federal worker whose furtive fur·tive adj. 1. Characterized by stealth; surreptitious. 2. Expressive of hidden motives or purposes; shifty. See Synonyms at secret. tape recordings caused the investigation of sex-scandal charges against President Clinton emerged from seclusion seclusion Forensic psychiatry A strategy for managing disturbed and violent Pts in psychiatric units, which consists of supervised confinement of a Pt to a room–ie, involuntary isolation, to protect others from harm long enough Friday to tell of an early-morning phone call she said Clinton made to the White House intern at the heart of the alleged affair. Linda Tripp Linda Tripp (born Linda Rose Carotenuto on November 24, 1949 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was a central figure in the Lewinsky scandal of 1998 and 1999 that led to the impeachment and subsequent acquittal of U.S. President Bill Clinton. , the former White House worker who made 20 hours of secret tapes of the accounts of Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. , told of the alleged presidential call in an angry, two-page statement defending her credibility and accusing the White House of a smear campaign smear campaign n → campaña de calumnias smear campaign n → campagne f de dénigrement smear campaign smear n . Claiming knowledge of ``every detail'' of the alleged affair, Tripp described a 2 a.m. phone call in November to Lewinsky's Watergate apartment. She said Lewinsky later identified the caller as Clinton and that the two women talked into the night of the alleged sexual affair. Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, laboring to protect his client from criminal indictment, insisted in an interview with ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. on Friday night that Tripp was never privy to phone calls between the president and Lewinsky. ``I do know she had conversations with the president of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government. The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. ,'' Ginsburg said. ``By telephone. Absolutely.'' He said they were very occasional business calls between the chief executive and a subordinate, adding, ``As far as I know, they were in no way fraught with sexual innuendo innuendo n. from Latin innuere, "to nod toward." In law it means "an indirect hint." "Innuendo" is used in lawsuits for defamation (libel or slander), usually to show that the party suing was the person about whom the nasty statements were made or why the comments .'' The White House, citing the ongoing investigation, maintained its no-comment policy when asked about the account of the phone call claimed by Tripp, who said she had been staying overnight with Lewinsky. Clinton has denied any sexual relationship with Lewinsky and declined to discuss the charges in detail. Tripp said that over a 15-month period of close confidences with Lewinsky, she also had been present when the 24-year-old former intern ``made and received numerous phone calls'' with White House officials, which were of ``a volatile and contentious nature'' in focusing on the alleged affair with the president. Defenders of Tripp elaborated that those calls went beyond Betty Currie Betty Currie (born Betty Grace Williams November 10, 1939) was the personal secretary for Bill Clinton during his tenure as President of the United States. She became well-known as a figure in the Lewinsky scandal for her alleged handling of gifts given to Monica Lewinsky , the president's secretary, to higher-ranking officials. ``I have also seen numerous gifts they exchanged and heard several of her tapes of him,'' Tripp added, without specifying the nature of the tapes. The sex-scandal inquiry spilled further into the public arena when an administration witness emerged from the grand jury inquiry being run by independent counsel Kenneth Starr
Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the and denounced it as ``Big Brother at its worst.'' The witness, Bob Weiner, a spokesman for the president's drug-control policy office, accused prosecutors of trying to intimidate him because he had called Maryland Democratic officials and urged them to question whether Tripp might have violated wiretap wiretap n. using an electronic device to listen in on telephone lines, which is illegal unless allowed by court order based upon a showing by law enforcement of "probable cause" to believe the communications are part of criminal activities. laws in tape-recording Lewinsky without her permission. ``We have just experienced the witch hunt and the partisanship that more and more of the American people resent about this case,'' Weiner declared, taking to the attack in a reflection of the administration's rising confidence as the president enjoys record-high approval ratings in the polls despite the sensational inquiry. The president won another point in Little Rock in defending himself against the separate sexual-misconduct civil suit brought by Paula Jones. Judge Susan Webber Wright Susan Webber Wright (b. 1948) is a United States District Court judge presently serving as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received national attention when she dismissed Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998. ruled that Secret Service agents who guard the president within the White House cannot be subpoenaed to testify about what they have witnessed in the course of their work. On Thursday, in a significant victory for Clinton, Wright barred all evidence of the Lewinsky investigation from being used in the Jones case. Forcing Clinton's bodyguards to testify, the judge declared Friday, might ``provide those with hostile intent toward the president with important information to use in piercing the Secret Service's protection.'' Her ruling did not affect the separate question of whether the independent counsel has the power to compel Secret Service agents to testify in his criminal inquiry. Starr is seeking corroborating witnesses for the allegations of Lewinsky, whose reported revelations on the Tripp tapes are flatly denied by Lewinsky herself in a sworn deposition submitted in the Jones case. Starr moved ahead with his grand jury inquiry with the fate of Lewinsky apparently still unsettled. Her attorneys have been seeking immunity from criminal prosecution in return for cooperating with Starr, but the two sides have been struggling to come to terms over precisely what Lewinsky will have to disclose. In addition to Weiner, the grand jury heard on Friday from Evelyn Lieberman, the former White House deputy chief of staff who, in April 1996, ordered Lewinsky transferred out of the White House to a job across the Potomac in the Pentagon, citing ``inappropriate and immature behavior'' and poor job performance. Emerging from the grand jury after 3-1/2 hours, Lieberman, tightly grasping the hand of her husband, Ed, stepped up to a throng of waiting microphones and declared: ``I want to make one point clear. I know of no improper relationship between the president, Monica Lewinsky or anyone else, for that matter.'' |
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