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To: kattracks
You know, I thought I remembered someone doing that! Sidney Blumenthal did too, didn't he? I seem to remember Blumenthal standing outside the courthouse and making up a whole bunch of stuff and it later turned out that none of it was true.

Lindsey also, if I remember. Spun a bunch of stuff about how the prosecutors were interested in lurid sex details and stuff.

17 posted on 01/12/2005 12:40:15 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple

Blumenthal Testimony Drawing More Attention

09 February, 1999

By Ben Anderson
CNS Staff Writer

(CNS) – House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde (R-IL) is asking the Senate for subpoena power for he and other House managers to investigate whether White House aide Sidney Blumenthal lied in his Congressional deposition in President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. The issue centers around who said what to whom in what may have been an effort to coordinate a smear campaign against former White House intern Monica Lewinsky on January 21, 1998, when the Clinton-Lewinsky story broke.

In videotaped testimony given to the House managers prosecuting the case, Blumenthal testified he spoke to no one, including the media, about a conversation he had with the president last year where Clinton described Lewinsky as a "stalker" and felt threatened by her sexual advances.

However, in a sworn statement to House impeachment managers made public Saturday, Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens contradicted videotaped testimony Blumenthal gave House prosecutors Wednesday in the impeachment trial. Hitchens, also a writer for the Nation, described in his statement a luncheon which he and his wife, Carol Blue, had with Blumenthal on March 19. Hitchens said that "several times" during the luncheon Blumenthal described Lewinsky as a stalker. He also said Blumenthal called President Clinton "the victim of a predatory and unstable sexually demanding young woman."


http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ZNEKTigCNb4J:www.conservativenews.org/InDepth/archive/199902/IND19990209d.html+Blumenthal+(lied)&hl=en


23 posted on 01/12/2005 12:44:57 AM PST by Liz (Wise men are instructed by reason; lesser men, by experience; the ignorant, by necessity. Cicero)
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