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In reply to the discussion: Monica fa-chrissakes Lewisnky is back in the news again. [View all]WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)84. Let's get something straight: The man who "humiliated" HRC/Chelsea was not BC; it was Ken Starr.
KENNETH STARR probed for the salacious details, threatening both ML and her mother.
Starr's deputies threatened not only Lewinsky, but also her mother, Marcia Lewis. During Lewinsky's 12-hour interrogation on January 16, 1998, after she had walked into the trap sprung by Linda Tripp, Lewinsky was told that her mother could face charges of obstruction of justice.....
At one point FBI agents told her she could not call her lawyer, Francis Carter, because their case was "time sensitive."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/03/lew-m06.html
KENNETH STARR then proceeded to publish those details in a book.
KENNETH STARR led the prosecution of a President over a sexual dalliance, AGAIN probing for salacious details.
Starr was not able to ask all the questions he wanted to before the predetermined time expired and Clinton refused to extend, according to the sources. Starr, sources said, told Clinton he may subpoena him to get answers to the questions the president rebuffed, prompting a possible new constitutional court battle.
Clinton's attorney, David E. Kendall, said later that Clinton was justified in refusing to answer because the questions were improperly and unnecessarily graphic. "As to a very few highly intrusive questions, with respect to the specifics of this [sexual] contact, in order to preserve personal privacy and institutional dignity, he gave candid, but not detailed, answers," Kendall said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/clinton081898.htm
BILL CLINTON tried, for his own, for Monica's, and for his family's sakes, NOT ONLY to keep the affair a secret; he ALSO tried to END the affair.
Sure, he was weak; nevertheless,
"When Clinton again told Lewinsky in May 1997 that their sexual relationship was over, she redoubled efforts that began the previous year to enlist the President's assistance in finding employment."
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/clinton/clintontrialaccount.html (Graphic.)
Starr's deputies threatened not only Lewinsky, but also her mother, Marcia Lewis. During Lewinsky's 12-hour interrogation on January 16, 1998, after she had walked into the trap sprung by Linda Tripp, Lewinsky was told that her mother could face charges of obstruction of justice.....
At one point FBI agents told her she could not call her lawyer, Francis Carter, because their case was "time sensitive."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1999/03/lew-m06.html
KENNETH STARR then proceeded to publish those details in a book.
KENNETH STARR led the prosecution of a President over a sexual dalliance, AGAIN probing for salacious details.
Starr was not able to ask all the questions he wanted to before the predetermined time expired and Clinton refused to extend, according to the sources. Starr, sources said, told Clinton he may subpoena him to get answers to the questions the president rebuffed, prompting a possible new constitutional court battle.
Clinton's attorney, David E. Kendall, said later that Clinton was justified in refusing to answer because the questions were improperly and unnecessarily graphic. "As to a very few highly intrusive questions, with respect to the specifics of this [sexual] contact, in order to preserve personal privacy and institutional dignity, he gave candid, but not detailed, answers," Kendall said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/clinton081898.htm
BILL CLINTON tried, for his own, for Monica's, and for his family's sakes, NOT ONLY to keep the affair a secret; he ALSO tried to END the affair.
Sure, he was weak; nevertheless,
"When Clinton again told Lewinsky in May 1997 that their sexual relationship was over, she redoubled efforts that began the previous year to enlist the President's assistance in finding employment."
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/clinton/clintontrialaccount.html (Graphic.)
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Follow the money, see if this old, stale story is the reason. I bet she's the front of a PR campaign
ancianita
May 2014
#13
Check the timing of this. CNN has already put the thought in the viewers teeny brains:
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#15
CNN is not the only network to ask that question. MSNBC did it too, this mid-morning. I
ChisolmTrailDem
May 2014
#35
Except Tyler Clementi did nothing to deserve his fate. Mz Lewinsky knew Bill Clinton was a married
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#14
Linda Tripp. Haven't heard from her since she collected her bag full of dirty money & got a nose job
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#36
Yes of course. However Bill isn't the one out toting a book & claiming how he was used by everyone.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#61
This isn't about fuckin' Lewinsky, Pitt. It's about making Dems ashamed of Clinton as their man
ancianita
May 2014
#11
I didn't even know she had a middle name and who gives their kid a name like that?
yellowcanine
May 2014
#21
Is that a statement in the form of a question? As far as I know they arent related.
rhett o rick
May 2014
#78
Its all in Papa Bush's plan. Jeb heralds in The New (Third Reich) World Order.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#26
Wonder how the GOP coughed up for her reappearance. ( IN LEW)insky of Benghazi, maybe? nt
kelliekat44
May 2014
#24
What she was involved in happens millions of times a day! Why is this still a big deal?
951-Riverside
May 2014
#32
20-25 years is about the life cycle for shit to go from new, to tiresome, to forgotten, to "retro"
Warren DeMontague
May 2014
#42
Will. They tried this shit 20 years ago. Hillary did not have any relations with
madinmaryland
May 2014
#45
Puh-leeze. ML was an adult who flashed her thong at an older man (she had had an affair with a
WinkyDink
May 2014
#82
What double standard? No one here is cannonizing sainthood upon Bill Clinton.
misterhighwasted
May 2014
#64
TPP and decades of warmongering "muscular liberalism" is what should do her in!
MisterP
May 2014
#71
So you're willing to let this dispicable woman drive one of our viable candidates off the ticket.
Auntie Bush
May 2014
#62