NEW CLINTON BOOK - CHANGES STORY ON MONICA

WMCA/Washington Post ^ | 6.22.2004 | McCullough/Harris/Weeks

[KMC1]

WASHINGTON D.C. - In August of 1998 President Clinton was forced to testify under oath concerning his affair with former intern Monica Lewinsky. According to reports, his testimony at the time was widely noted to contradicts Lewinsky's testimony as to when the affair began.

She had testified that the affair began in November of 1995 - in the midst of the government shut down. His testimony - under oath - put the beginning somewhere in "early 1996".

Federal prosecutors charged that the President had lied on this point to avoid the appearance of having had an affair with an intern. Lewinsky was not a paid staffer until the winter months of 1996. In the fall of 1995 she was still interning.

In the former President's brand new book - for no stated reason - Clinton reverts to Lewinsky's version of the story, saying in fact the affair began during the government shut down of the fall of 1995.

Former and current Clinton aides were unable to offer an explanation for the differences in testimony and Clinton lawyer David Kendall was not returning calls to the media yesterday.

[Izzy Dunne]

Clinton lawyer David Kendall was not returning calls to the media

No kidding.
I wonder if Kendall was present during the "writing" of this book.

[yoe]

I tend to believe Monica however the real story is the sale of National Security to China, Monica was the scapegoat of truly dangerous lapses in security on Bill Clinton's watch. Too bad Ron Brown's plane slammed into a mountain on a clear day............

[pageonetoo]

Too bad Ron Brown's plane slammed into a mountain on a clear day............

...putting a bullet hole in his head.............

[rhombus]

Oh my God! You mean Clinton may have lied under oath? I'm shocked I tell you, this is an outrage. What's that? He lied about sex? Never mind.

[OldFriend]

He LIES because he can.

[rhombus]

He LIES because he can.

He LIES because We the People allow him to lie.

[Samizdat]

And does anyone really believe this admitted other lie under oath will ever be prosecuted?

[goldstategop]

He lied again. But since he was acquitted, another whopper's not going to put him behind bars in Fort Leavenworth, even though he richly deserves to be there.

[TheBattman]

Too bad Ron Brown's plane slammed into a mountain on a clear day............

And just happened to have a .45 caliber bullet hole directly in the back of his head......

[TomGuy]

So who cares? Why dredge all this up again? It's been a decade; let it die!

If the 'Right' would just bite their tongues and keep quiet, this will all fade in a week.

All Clinton wants is attention. Don't give it to him.

[OldFriend]

The media convinced some sheeple that if hilary didn't care we shouldn't care either. It's none of our business, this business of sex in the oval office with an intern.

[OldFriend]

The media controls the level of attention.

[Alberta's Child]

A pathological liar speaking to millions of people who believe anything they hear makes for a pretty interesting case study for a professional psychiatrist, I'd say.

[IamConservative]

I don't mind Dan Rather spending 27 minutes a night rehabilitating Clinton while Kerry suffocates in the corner.

Personally, I think the Clinton rehabilitation tour is all being choreographed by the witch herself all to make sure she has a clean run at the White House in 2008. She will not run for reelection to her Senate seat, give it a two year run, She will win and have 8 years in the White House or retire.

My .02 cents anyway.

[WideGlide]

You know NONE of this would have been necessary if it weren't for that Lynda Tripp wench convincing Monica to souvenir Bill's DNA.

Thank you and goodnight Mrs. Tripp wherever you are.

[Mudboy Slim]

RE-IMPEACH Osama bil Clinton!!

FReegards...MUD

[rhombus]

The media convinced some sheeple that if hilary didn't care we shouldn't care either. It's none of our business, this business of sex in the oval office with an intern.

Exactly right. The spin became a "privacy issue" rather than Clinton's attempt to "fix" a court case by obstructing justice and lying in the discovery of a sexual harassment case against him... and Ken Starr was kept around by Janet Reno to be the whipping boy whle she ran cover for her boy Billy.

[Mudboy Slim]

"He LIES because We the People allow him to lie."

EXACTLY!! Der SchleekMeister must be held accountable for his crimes or else we'll be looking at the HildaBeast as POTUS in 2009!!

The Leftists DemonRATS revel in SlickWillie's blatant lying and getting away with it...now HanoiJohn Kerry's lying thru his teeth and getting away with it. When will Republicans insist that the Left's leaders be held accountable?!

FReegards...MUD

[mountaineer]

Two items from today's Page Six (NY Post):
MONICA Lewinsky — in Little Rock, Ark., for a wedding this past weekend — was invited to tour the Clinton Presidential Library. But she declined.

The former White House intern — a bridesmaid of Ashley Linus Raines, her best friend from their days in the West Wing during the Bill Clinton administration — was overheard at the reception laughing with other guests about a phone call a member of the wedding party received.

Sources say the caller was one of the directors of the Clinton Presidential Library offering out-of-town guests an exclusive peek at the unfinished shrine to the ex-president. And the Clintonite specifically asked "if Monica would be joining them."

Lewinsky, who has consistently turned down requests for interviews and tried to maintain a low profile, was overheard expressing her surprise that anyone would think she'd accept such an invitation. And she had a good laugh imagining the scene if she had accepted and taken a tour of the Clinton cathedral, being led like a lamb into the lions' den.

Excerpted from http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix_u.htm

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BILL CLINTON let the jokes fly last night as he presided over the Big Apple's hottest party, celebrating the publication of his memoirs, "My Life."

Clinton, along with his senator wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, were the stars of the Metropolitan Museum of Art gala, with Chelsea's boyfriend, Ian Klaus, also getting plenty of looks.

"By the time I finished working on the book, I was about down to the minimum wage with all the time I put into it," Clinton quipped to the crowd of movers and shakers who came to toast him. He added, "I hope my publisher gets his money back."

Among the 1,000 guests who showed were: Barbara Walters, Star Jones, Andy Rooney, Don Hewitt, Charlie Rose, Ken Burns, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Judy Collins, Phoebe Snow, Maurice Tempelsman, Toni Morrison, Lauren Bacall, Natalie Portman (slumming it in shorts and high heels!) Sirio Maccione and Jonathan Tisch.

Also there were Clinton's former press secretary George Stepanopoulous, Al Franken, Winona Ryder, Larry King, Paula Zahn, the Rev. Al Sharpton, scribes Walter Mosley, Anna Deavere Smith, Fran Lebowitz, Pete Hamill and Calvin Trillin. Among the others attending were Anna Wintour, John Kerry's sister, Peggy, Mark Green and Bob Torricelli.

Introducing her husband, Hillary called Bill "the former president and future best-selling author, Chelsea's father and my constituent."

"I want to thank the senator," Bill told her, adding, "as one of your constituents, I'd like to see sewer and natural-gas systems expanded in Westchester [where they live]." The ex-prez also revealed that the "worst thing" about being a civilian again was "walking into a room and not having a song played."

Security at the invitation-only bash was tight, but one protester outside was able to wave a sign criticizing the former president for both his infidelity and his failure to capture Osama bin Laden.

The 957-page, $35 book from Alfred A. Knopf — which Clinton bragged he completed without the help of a ghostwriter — hit stores at midnight. It's an instant bestseller, with a first printing of 1.5 million copies and an advance-copy order already past 2 million.

This despite a rash of cold-to-lukewarm reviews, including a blast from The New York Times, which ripped parts of it as "sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull."

The tome includes Clinton's dramatic admission that he had Oval Office sex sessions with intern Monica Lewinsky "because I could," and how Hillary made him sleep on the couch.