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WASHINGTON: In his crusade against perjury, Ken Starr is wielding a double-edged sword that cuts both informer and informee. And so it was that Linda Tripp found herself under independent counsel investigation late Monday for lying to the grand jury about the tapes she made of conversations with Monica Lewinsky. The FBI Audio Signal Analysis Unit found that nine of her tapes are not consistent with the recording equipment Tripp says she used -- and as the Starr report suggests in one of its voluminous footnotes, that means Tripp may have erased vital moments of her exchange with Monica. Moreover...
...informant extraordinaire. Not to mention what may become -- in female eyes, at least -- the most inexcusable charge: that she persuaded Lewinsky not to wash the stained Gap dress by telling the former intern she "looked fat" in it. "I hate Linda Tripp!" a tearful Lewinsky told the grand jury. Clearly, there's one statement that isn't perjurous...
...From Monica Lewinsky's Aug. 6, 1998, appearance before the grand jury. Click below for the full testimony...
...LINDSAY DAVENPORT, 22, her first Grand Slam title in her first Grand Slam final; at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; in New York City. Davenport is the first American-born player to win the U.S. competition since Chris Evert...
WASHINGTON: Four and a half hours later, are we any the wiser? For anyone seeking a smoking gun or salacious new details in the Lewinsky case, President Clinton's grand jury testimony tape was distinctly disappointing. Indeed, very little of what the President said -- from his definition of sex in the Paula Jones case to his defense of the gifts he gave Lewinsky -- could not be read or inferred from the 445-page Starr report. What had remained unseen, until Monday, was the way it was delivered. And while his text amounted to hairsplitting and none-too-subtle filibustering, Clinton...