Word: ginsburgs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly building the pressure on the only other person who knows what did or did not occur when the doors were closed. Lewinsky and her lawyers began the week thinking they were about to tell their story at last. Ginsburg sent in his written proffer on Monday along with the agreement written by Starr's office granting Monica immunity. The two sides, Ginsburg claims, agreed on a schedule of interviews in which Lewinsky would sit down through the week with FBI agents in California. Satisfied that the immunity dance was finally over, the whole traveling circus left town...
...Ginsburg got a call from Starr's office that "they had changed their minds." The Washington Post reported that Starr had rejected Ginsburg's proffer as too full of contradictions and too vague in its recollection of the behavior of the President and his friend Jordan, who was suspected of trying to help Lewinsky get a job to keep her quiet. Starr was now refusing to do a deal before talking to her face to face: "There is no substitute," he said, "for looking a witness in the eye, asking detailed questions, matching the answers against verifiable facts...
This sent Ginsburg round the bend. From the start he felt that Starr had been squeezing Lewinsky without mercy, threatening her family with subpoenas, intimidating, misleading, baiting and switching. Under the terms of the deal Ginsburg thought had been reached, Starr could spend all the time he liked with Lewinsky and even give her a lie-detector test if he chose. Any implication that she was avoiding interrogation, Ginsburg charged, was nonsense...
...What Ginsburg could not realize, however, was how much less dependent on Lewinsky Starr became with each passing day. As late as Thursday, before the Times story broke, Ginsburg still argued that his client was the only hope Starr had. That, within a few hours, proved to be wrong. Last week Starr subpoenaed attorneys working for Paula Jones for notes, pleadings and depositions involving other women linked to Bill Clinton. One possible line of inquiry: Were the women asked by any agents of Clinton to soften their testimony regarding their former relationships with...
...senior Justice official went so far as to suggest to TIME that given the thick conflicts of interest in the case, a special prosecutor might have to be appointed to probe an independent counsel. As a lawyer on the case put it, "This isn't exactly charted territory." Ginsburg, meanwhile, announced plans to take Starr to court to enforce the immunity deal...