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President Clinton will provide videotaped
testimony concerning his ties to Lewinsky
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amidst a maelstorm of le
gal maneuvering. President Clinton agreed Wednesday
to break six months' silence and provide videotaped tes
timony regarding his relationship with former White
House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The session under oath with Whitewater prose
cutors was set for Aug. 17 — with the president's
attorneys present.
Senior aides said Clinton is prepared to stick by his
denial of any sexual relations with
Lewinsky. If so, his testimony
could conflict with Lewinsky's. Le
gal sources, insisting on anonymi
ty, say she told prosecutors this
week they had sexual relations and
discussed ways of concealing it.
Among a drumbeat of devel
opments, these sources provid
ed new details of Lewinsky's
potential testimony.
The sources said Lewinsky is
prepared to explain why she re
turned gifts from Clinton to the
White House last December, fur
thering prosecutors' investigation
tt
We’re now in the
closing throes of this. It’s
in everybody’s interest to
get this over with.”
— Orrin Hatch
Senate Judiciary Chair
of obstruction of justice. In addition, Lewinsky was said
to have provided a dress to prosecutors as some sort of
evidence. Reports of such a garment, frequently denied
and ridiculed by her attorney, circulated last January
when Lewinsky first came under investigation.
Senate Judiciary Chair Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said
independent counsel Kenneth Starr apparently is ex
amining Clinton for three possible crimes — perjury,
causing someone else to commit perjury, and ob
struction of justice.
"We're now in the closing throes of this," Hatch said.
"... It's in everybody's interest to get this over with."
Clinton's arrangement with Starr averted an un
precedented presidential appearance under subpoena
before a federal grand jury where witnesses appear with
out counsel. Starr agreed to withdraw the subpoena to
accommodate Clinton, and the president will delay his
Martha's Vineyard vacation to testify. His testimony, un
der oath, will be made available to the grand jury.
At the U.S. courthouse, Linda Tripp, the woman
whose secret tape recordings of Lewinsky prompted the
investigation, spoke publicly for the first time, present
ing herself as a common citizeh and lashing out at her
critics from the White House to Hollywood.
"I have been vilified for having taken the path of
truth," Tripp, visibly shaking, said after wrapping up
eight days of grand jury testimony.
"I have been maligned by people who have chosen
not to tell the truth and who loiow they are not telling
the truth," she said.
Tripp, who worked inside the Clinton White House and
now works for the Pentagon, said that between 1993 and
1997 she learned of "actions by high government officials
that may have been against the law" and became fearful.
"The things I witnessed concerning several different
subjects made me increasingly fearful that this informa
tion was dangerous, very dangerous to possess," she
said explaining why she approached prosecutors in Jan
uary with 20 hours of telephone tapes she secretly made
of her conversations with Lewinsky.
Press Secretary Mike McCurry was asked whether
the president would prefer to testify before or after
Lewinsky, replying only, "You'd have to ask his attorney
that. I don't know."
Meanwhile, a potential conflict between Tripp and
Lewinsky's account emerged. Sources familiar with
Lewinsky's account say she is prepared to testify that
she authored the so-called talk
ing points she handed Tripp on
Jan. 14 that suggested possible
testimony in the Jones lawsuit.
Lewinsky has told prosecu
tors, the sources said, that no one
from the White House assisted
the effort and the document was
mostly a compilation of things
she had previously discussed
with Tripp. But Tripp on
Wednesday adamantly denied
any role in the talking points.
"I have testified to the fact
that 1 had nothing, let me repeat,
nothing to do with preparing the
so-called talking points. Allegations to the effect that
contributed to or assisted in any way with the creation
of the talking points are as illogical and as they are
patently false," Tripp said.
Legal sources told The Associated Press on Wednes
day that Lewinsky has offered prosecutors testimony
explaining why she returned gifts from Clinton.
Lewinsky's testimony could be pertinent "to an issue
of obstruction of justice," one source said, declining to
be more specific.
The sources familiar with Lewinsky' account said
the former intern will explain why the gifts were re
turned to presidential secretary Betty Currie shortly af
ter Lewinsky was subpoenaed last December to testify
in the Jones' case.
The sources stopped short of saying if Lewinsky
would directly implicate Clinton in some way. But the
one source said Lewinsky's testimony would make clear
that only Clinton, Lewinsky and Currie knew about the
gifts and before they "somehow got back to the White
House, somebody had to say something."
The announcement of the deal for Clinton's testimo
ny unfolded in theatrical fashion as the president's pri
vate attorney, David Kendall, emerged from the White
House to provide first word.
"In an effort to achieve a prompt resolution of this en
tire matter, the president will voluntarily provide his tes
timony on Aug. 17, 1998 to the Office of Independent
Counsel, as he has on prior occasions," Kendall said.
On Capitol Hill, anticipation grew that a possible im
peachment report may soon be sent by Starr.
"This is not a discussion about sexual propensities or
sexual peccadilloes," Hatch said. "Obstruction is a very
serious thing."
Noting that Starr's investigation already has cost $40
million. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the senior De
mocrat on Hatch's committee, was blunt: "Wrap this
sucker up."
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