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12A - Morning News • Thursday, August 13, 1998 * * * *
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White House rejects suggestion Clinton might limit testimony
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Starr's leaks at a glance
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Examples that U.S. District Judge Norma Hollow ay Johnson cited as
WASHINGTON — With unsolicit- evidence that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr may have leaked secret
ed advice cascading in from all grand jury information to the media:
sides, the White House tried to
Starr was quoted in a magazine as saying that his staffs pre-testimony
stamp out speculation Wednesday •interviews
with witnesses were not covered by the secrecy rule.
that President Clinton might refuse
to answer certain questions about • Magazine editor Steven Brill quoted Starr as saying that he and his top
Monica S. Lewinsky during his grand deputy, Jackie Bennett, speak to reporters on condition of anonymity.
• In sworn affidavits, Starr's aides "do not deny" they were sources of
jury testimony Monday.
Despite Clinton's pledge to testify information for news articles submitted by President Clinton's lawyers.
"completely and truthfully," some • Starr made comments to reporters in front of his home last May reacting
former advisers and legal analysts to a secret ruling the judge had made on executive privilege. Star called It
have suggested in recent days that he "a magnificent ruling" shortly after word of the decision leaked out.
could limit his testimony, either by
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refusing to discuss his sex life or by
giving a carefully worded statement
OB his relationship with Lewinsky but added that the president sympa- people he can talk with who would
without answering further ques- thized with the view. "The president not be subject to subpoenas by indehas heard that when he has gone pendent counsel Starr.
tions.
As a result,-the flood of suggesBut none of those scenarios com- home and I think he understands
port with the president's pledge, that" Lockhart said. Friends from tions offered during television
according to aides who insisted they there "feel like they were singled out appearances or in newspapers is not
•tuw of no plans to follow such rec- because they were from Little Rock based on a full knowledge of the
facts. There's a lot of advice coining
ommendations. Asked during the or they were from Arkansas."
The notion of restricting Clinton's in from every possible place imagindaily news briefing Wednesday if
Qinton was saying he would answer testimony has some appeal among able,''Lockhart noted.
Much of the speculation appears
SJU Questions when he vowed to testi- advisers who believe it could minify "completely," White House deputy mize his legal exposure in a way that based on confusion or disagreement
press secretary Joe Lockhart said, could be politically defensible if about the definition of sex used in
•tfhat's what it suggests to me, yes." couched in terms of privacy con- the Jones case, in part because the
: Another senior official who did cerns. And yet as public as the presi- publicly released portion of
ij&want to be named said resisting dent's Mends and strategists have Clinton's deposition transcript does
some questions was not known to be been in exploring such options, not include a full account of how the
liader consideration, unless the nearly all of them have been kept out lawyers involved came to define the
president has discussed it with his of the loop as Clinton limits his con- term. The definition is key to
nersonal
attorney, David E. Kendall, sultations to his private attorneys whether Clinton can be accused of
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Clinton returned to Washington and the first lady—virtually the only perjury.
from a fund-raising trip early
Wednesday morning for what will be
several days of intensive preparations with his lawyers, sessions that
wiU extend into the weekend leading
up~to Monday's encounter with
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Termites construct tunnels from the ground to gain access to wooden supWASHINGTON - The view from ports ol the home. They don't work in light and usually eat from the inside,
Scott Orr's window was just
jfTiaking a beam or rafter that looks sound virtually hollow inside.
asphalt, cars and a stoplight —
until Monica Lewinsky started
showing up to meet with her new
lawyers in the office building
across the street
Now his view is "Monicacam."
Orr, a reporter for The StarLedger of Newark, NJ., booked up
a $75 miniature camera to his computer and feeds the view to
www.webdevs.coiQ/monicacam/.
The centerpiece of the Web page
is an image updated every 10 minutes between 7 ajn. and 10 pjn. of
the entrance to the office building
at 1100 Connecticut Ave., where Bis.
Lewinskyfc lawyers, Plato Cacheris
and Jacob Stein, work.
The site, with occasional fleeting
glimpses of Lewinsky, has been a
big hit, surpassing 60,000 visitors
Wednesday. "Quite probably the
best Monica Lewinsky site in the
world, ever," said the Irish Times.
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